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Who votes for Obama and McCain?

• What kind of people vote for the two candidates? What are their attitudes/positions?
• What are these people's main motives?
• What do the candidates do to attract these special groups of voters?

Write down notes AND create a list of links, including a short comment on what the websites offer!

Team 1 - Obama 1 Weidinger, Jäger, Kraus, Zehe

Latinos

the Latinos positiones

• they are a big reason for Democrats to find new electoral power in the West
• Latinos make up at least 12 percent of the eligible voters in all the Southwestern states Obama is targeting

candidates efforts to attract the Latinos

• Obama's campaign is running radio, TV, print and online ads in Spanish
• he opening field offices to reach out to Latino voters
• he is also sending prominent surrogates like New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to talk to Latino communities

the Latinos main motives

• ending the war in Iraq
• turning around the economy
• improving access to affordable healthcare

Blacks

Motives:

• He would be the first black president

Efforts for the blacks:

• He will do something against racism

Religious people

Obama is being prefered by non-Christians, atheists, and agnostics, but he also leads among nonevangelical, born-again Christians (43 to 31 percent), Christians who are neither born-again nor evangelical (44 to 28 percent), Catholics (39 to 29percent), and Protestants (43 to 34 percent).

Links

• Latinos
• Democratics
• Blacks
• Gallup
• voters
• Christians

Team 2 - Obama 2

1. Franziska Scholpp
2. Cornelia Kirchner
3. Claudia Kaffer
4. Anna Riedl

Who votes for Obama?

• people who are against iraq war
• women
• people who want a political change
• young people
• middle/higher class

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Links

• Obama Making Christian Push
• Black Voters
• Obama on MySpace

Team 3 - Obama 3

1. Sebastian Jenisch
2. Alexander Desch
3. Martin Häpp

• He's not a "native" African American who can trace his roots through slavery.

Links

• Official website of Barack Obama

Probably voters of Barack Obama

• Taxpayers and homeowners
• blacks

Team 4 - McCain 1

Members

1. Michael W.
2. Max S.
3. Phillip W.
4. René N.

Johnny

MySpace von John McCain

-- Nüßlein Rene 10:50, 30. Sep. 2008 (UTC) (c)René N.

Team 5 - McCain 2

Teammates: Tobias, Pascal, ?, ?

Who votes for McCain?

-Women vote for McCain because of Sarah Palin who would become vice-president.

-Clinton-voters vote for McCain because they don't trust Obama and they were disappointed.

-Bush voters who prefer McCain because he's in the repuplican partie.

What does McCain do to attract these special groups of voters?

-Wants to reduce green house gas emission if China and India join in.

-He would cut taxes on middle-class families.

Why John McCain?

Who votes for Mccain?

Women for Mccain and Palin?

Team 6 - McCain 3

Das sind Wir:

Eva Kehrlein

Stephan Mantel

Theresa Klinger

Sandra Krieger

...to be continued

Who votes for John McCain?

-Disappointed voters of Hillary Clinton

-Bush followers

They don't trunst McCain

-The National Rifle Association

What are his aims?

-Wants to reform social security and healthcare

-He wants to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions

-He is against abortion and wants to change the law

-He also wants the stem-cell research to be illegal

-He supports the death penalty but not for youngster

-He wants to build 45 more nuclear power plants

Team 7 - McCain 4

Anka, Eva, Felix

1. Who votes for McCain? Why?

• Hillary Voters: people that backed Hillary Clinton are dissappointed. Thy don´t want Obama for President.

2. What does the candidate do to attract these special groups of voters?

• Wants to reform campaign finance system
• Enhance their homeland security
• Confirm qualified judges like Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito
• Spokes against his own party to convince democrates
• Reform:

a)Education

b)Health care services

Links

• they trust him on Economy