Millenial Makeover- Political Ads

For the infomercials on the presidential race, Obama's looked mostly professional (possibly due to the fact that he has the most campaign money ever raised...but..) both the candidates seemed to have very professional videos. After all the candidates do pay a lot of money for their advertisements in an effort to get people to pay attention to their causes and also the faults of the other party. Most of the user based videos are humorous, and are mostly loosely based on politics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68NEc8EvV2Q and most are stupid people talking about things they mostly do not know anything about... The most polished promotional videos are obviously put out by the candidates themselves...no "real" people want to put boring mudslinging on Youtube...the only videos that get hits are those that are funny. A lot of older ads are more organic than they have been lately, for instance this ad from Bill Clinton was almost like a home video from the 90's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7prb7exyTQ.. Bill Clinton’s campaign was for the most part low cost (but similarly followed the “change” theme almost always followed by Democrats), and thus was more of a grassroots organization. Recent campaigns are making millions from donors (and apparently from companies...though I won’t go into that), and have more money to pay for advertising research and high quality campaigns. For the most part the American public doesn’t seem to watch the regular campaign videos as much as they watch SNL clips (from last night’s Sarah Palin visit) and funny clips they’ve uploaded of themselves dressed as Obama.

Recent Politics

Millennial Makeover talks a lot about the upcoming election (because the book is so recent) and also the "Millennials" response to it. Most people on UMBC and indeed, on most college campuses around the country are predominantly Democrats. For me there is an overwhelming feeling that most people think I am stupid for my views and that I am in some way regressive in my political philosophies. Here's the thing, both Obama and Mc Cain are not Millennials in their ideals nor in their generational stance. The funny thing is that the upcoming voters in a generation will always have to vote for the previous generations ideals, or the generation before that (in the case of McCain and Biden). This seems almost unfair, and seems to be a horrible regression. In current law a presidential hopeful must be at least 33...no WONDER young people don't feel the strong urge to vote all the time. I'm not saying that this is a wrong law, but what I am saying is that it is unreasonable for young people to be able to change what they want to change when it is always an older generation running everything. Seems wrong to just say that generations are fighting...or have tension when really I think the fact that Baby Boomers are predominantly our parents and even grandparents makes up for the fact that the generations perhaps don't see eye to eye. If I could call our generation something it would probably be Millenials as the author calls us or maybe Y2Kers...ahah!!!