2/22/16

                              Joe Biden and why he believed he couldn't win for presidency

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-couldnt-win-2016-race/story?id=34724133

                       Joe Biden announced early in the beginning of the campaigning for presidency that he would not be running for president. He claimed there were many different reasons he did not run for president, one including the recent death of his son Beau, last may.

                               Joe Biden announced early in the campaigning a few specific reasons as to why he would not be running for presidency. Though he admits perhaps he used better ways of practicing progressivism he may of been able to run, he stepped back. For many months he considered and weighed the options of running for presidency and what it would have done for his family; what emotional toll it would  have been on them. Biden also makes another point as he explains his relation to Hillary in the running, he would directly be running against her. He said that he does have a mutual liking for Hilary and would not want to be directly against her. Though he said that some people believed that he did not like Hilary because he expressed his political tolerance towards Republicans, but he later made statements explaining how that was not directed offensively towards Hilary in any way. Biden has one last year to serve in the research and in honor of his son plans to spend it on the initiation of further cancer research.

Joe biden 

Joe Biden and Hilary Clinton

Joe at his son Beau's funeral 

Political tolerance towards republicans

2/11/16 Unit 1

                                Those who don't "feel the Bern" may be fearing it instead  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-strategist-bernie-sanders-clinton_us_56bbafb3e4b0c3c5504ff6c7
                     Dave Carney as a republican strategist has been studying the candidates and their similarities. He feels that Bernie Sanders uses some of the same strategies that Trump uses to over come his voters. He believes that Sanders is going to have a higher turnout than Hillary because of this reason and others when it comes to presidential elections.

Showing the differences in controversial issues and which candidate supports or opposes each one.

                      Carney believes that Sanders gets to his people in the same way trump does. He talks mostly about the disconnect between the people who make and/or have the most money or who he refers to them as as "elites" and the rest of us. Though Trump and Sanders have a very different way of doing so, the same type of people become stirred up; they're just on different sides of the political spectrum. He talks about Bernie's new approach and how that seems to be holding more of an interest with the people compared to the ways of Hillary and her campaigning. Even though Bernie refers to himself as a democratic socialist, Carney predicts that with the campaigning he's doing and success with the younger people he's achieving; that when it comes time for the voting, that title is not going to mean as much. We have recently been learning more about the candidates and their political strategies in order to gain followers, especially with the younger generation, in which Bernie seems to be achieving.

Senator Bernie Sanders speaking in New Hampshire

Perhaps a few months outdated, still shows the rise in Bernie's campaigning and the eventual decreasing of Hilary's