Wednesday, October 7, 2009

There are many appeals to both the left and right wing. Everything seems to be all gloom and doom and someone else's fault. Each side masterfully uses a variety of persuasion techniques to stir emotion, outrageand action by the readers. Both sides have their similarities and differences each seeking to gain your trust and your vote on Election Day. Both the left and right organizers of these blogs seek to inform readers about what their political parties are doing to help their constituents and why they are far better for the country than their counterparts. Both love to lay the blame for our problems on each other rather than always voicing constructive solutions and bipartisan solutions.Each attacks each other for attacking them and cry outrage when anyone disagrees with them. Each of these blogs are clearly Republican orDemocratic and both focus on their parities first and what's right or best for the country second. The major differences found of these blogs seem to big the redistribution of wealth. Democrats want everything for everybody. Healthcare, homes and money while Republicans want to be able to keep everything they earn.

The Daily Dish features a blog called "Those Useless, Spineless,Rudderless Democrats" uses repetition to undervalue Democrats efforts while another blogs provide many reasons why America is in the mess we arein today. This includes everything from high infant death rates, a poor economy, and an out of control deficit. There is an endless amount of blogs slamming the Democrats. The same can also be said about the Democrats talking about the Republicans. They use persuasive techniques including the same ones listed above as well as many comparisons and agitate and solve.The Daily Kos provides up to the minute updates of the state of the nation and says that a favorable opinion of President Obama is growing and that the nation is beginning to recover under Democratic leadership.

Blogs from both parties consistently use persuasive techniques to sell themselves just like advertisers do to sell a product. They use repetition and comparisons to sell themselves and explain their actions while showing the alleged failures of the other party. Like everything else you cannot believe everything you read online. Differing views can be found in everything involving politics and if readers are not getting the whole story they can easily are pulled to one side over the other.

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