Press Conference 2

We are seeing a lot of coverage on the way people have been voting for the democrats and republicans. There is nothing on third party candidates on cnn.com. There are current poll leaders for each state, issue policies, and pod casts. There are also campaign trails for the two main parties.

As a committee member for a third party candidate, I am not happy. We can’t get into the debate, and we can’t even get on the major broadcast websites! Third party candidates are being ignored; Ralph Nader has great ideas, and should be included in the race for president. It isn’t fair that Ralph is being disregarded just because he isn’t part of a major party.

We love the way our election process is set up. There is no bias, and the third party candidates get a chance. It’s also hand counted twice, so there won’t be any hacking in to electronic ballots. This may not work on a larger scale though. It would take forever to hand count a country’s worth of ballots. But we still believe that this is the best system.

Foreign Issues Mock Debate Response

This was probably our most difficult debate yet. Finding information was hard especially, so I wasn't able to present my candidate with as many statistics as I did last time. Knowing the challenge of these topics, I think we were all as informed as any sophomores could be, and in all the candidates I saw better debate qualities. I think that my candidate's weakest response was to the question "Why aren't we considering what the troops want as far as the Iraq war goes?". The response was correct, but didn't have evidence to back it up, which I did have, but had forgotten to remind her of the statistics being that 72% of troops want to be home within the next six months.

Much like in my last blog on the domestic issues debate I have put some untrue quotes from candidates that I was able to catch:


"We're struggling to lower oil prices"
- John McCain

Since the heat of the election started to take place the gas prices have lowered. As of today the price of unleaded gasoline in the USA is $2.39.


"We would be able to take them out within a little over a year"
- Barack Obama

This is Barack speaking of the war in Iraq, and his actual withdrawal date is between six months and a year.


"There have been 3,000 civilian deaths"
-Cynthia McKinney

The actual approximate civilian death rate is in the low ninety thousands


"Abolish free trade agreement like Ralph Nader, but keep free trade like John McCain"
-Bob Barr

This doesn't quite add up. You either reform NAFTA, get rid of it, or keep it.


"We need to protect the border so it's closed but opened, we want it secure but not too secure"
-Bob Barr

How can it be closed and opened at the same time? Bob Barr's intentions are very unclear to me and my peers.