Today was an interesting day filled with the elected voices of the people and the voices from the past. As different experiences were share I can certainly say that we all took something away from Reggy Finney,Linda  Rallo, Tracey McCreery, Stacey Newman, and Charlie Dooley. I personally joined that they were regular people, in the sense that they had degrees from all over the place from Reggy Finney’s degree in mathematics and partial in theology to Stacey Newman’s flight attendant career, and they ran for the betterment of their district. I enjoyed that they did not try to disillusion us on how hard it is to be in politics as we saw in how hard they all campaign  and to get bills and agendas passed as some of us heard from Tracey McCreery and her three hour wait to speak about abortion. The use of the old fashion campaign surprised me because I have never seen a candidate themselves knocking on doors, and Newman’s use of social media is something I loved. I was a little dismayed by the fact they didn’t go into the types of people they excepted to receive support from more and who exactly they were selling their ‘product’ too as well as why they believed our state has such a low voter turn out. I would like to thank them all for the insight they gave to a group of people that want to be informed and want to be involved. We also watched all presidential TV ads at went from cartoon songs to “scary movie voice” remarks. I found a lot of similarities in the qualifications for president and targeted people. I was a little angered at smear campaigns because it makes me question how much of the information has been skewed somehow. I am still excited to make an ad tomorrow for whatever topic that might been, though I know some specifically I could just run with now.

Emma