Weekly Update

In the past couple of weeks, there have been many news articles to support the idea that McCain is decreasing in his popularity in the polls. This past week the articles have been focused on the second presidential debate, analysis of the debate, more updates on the economy, and the disheartening news about Sarah Palin's results of the "Troopergate scandal."

There was a lot of political talk. On Tuesday I had the opportunity to go and work at Buckhannon's Republican Headquarters. Many of the people that I met at the headquarters seemed to be very close-minded on politics. I was a little disappointed that they seemed to be very close-minded and misquoted a lot of information. I didn't think to ask them what news source they had gotten their information from, but if I had to guess, it would be from word of mouth. On the same night at the Debate-Watch, people discussed the debate for a little bit afterwards, many people were talking about their predictions for who would win. Most thought that Barack Obama would win, probably as a result of information from more liberal news sources. Also, Shelley Moore Capito came to visit the school on Thursday evening in the Cat's Claw. At the tables before and after her presentation, friends started to talk about the political issues and the election.

The five top issues covered this week: 1)Debate 2)Economy 3)Trooper-gate 4)McCain's campaign 5)Obama's block by block approach