So after figuring out what exactly we should be looking for
in blogs, I finally figured it out. I
found a vast amount of blogs that were about both of the presidential
campaigns. I believe that blogs are
definitely making their way up the totem pole in society. Many people are having a growing passion to
write blogs and get their thoughts and ideas out there. And one thought that is on many minds around
the nation is the 2012 presidential candidates.
I think that these blogs about them are very influential and it brings
up many topics and deeper thoughts that the news stations and newspapers aren’t
bringing to the table.
I scanned
many blogs for hours upon hours trying to get a deeper knowledge of the
presidential campaign looking through different ideas of people that I never
would have even thought about.
Some of the
blogs that I found were on news sites where people can post blogs about the
presidential campaign. The only downfall
with that is that trying to analyze these sites, because the host site was a
news station there is no need for a profile of the bloggers. This gave me some trouble trying to find out
if these people actually had a greater knowledge of politics or if they were
amateurs (similar to myself) and were just blogging about their thoughts with
the information given by a news station.
One blog
site in particular that I thought was very influential was by a man named,
Matthew Dickinson. He is a political
science professor at Middlebury College and former professor at Harvard
University where he received his Ph D.
Dickinson has many blogs about the political race. By reading some of the blogs Dickinson seems
to be give valid information from both parties.
He touches upon many topics in the electoral race like how the 2012 race
is very similar to the previous, electoral landslide for Obama, why Obama may
lose, etc. Dickinson didn’t have a spot
where it shows who his followers were.
It may be because it was an education site.
Another
blog that I came upon was from Feministing.com.
The title of the post was “Is Mitt Romney the most dishonest
presidential candidate ever?” and was written by a woman who goes by
Zerlina. She attended Rutgers Law School
and is a field organizer for Obama’s “Campaign for a Change”. Her writings appeared in The Loop 21, This
Week in Blackness, The Urban Politico, theroot.com and salon.com. She makes it a point to touch upon many
different topics like film, Olympics, what’s new in the news, and her support
for same sex marriage. Her blogs didn’t
show how many followers she had but her posts had many comments from many
different users.
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