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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?
• Where is McCain less convincing?
• Which voters do clearly not favour McCain?

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

General reasons for voting Obama

• Change
• Ability to handle economy
• Plan for the Iraq War (wants to pull back all soldiers by 16 months)
• Honesty
• Supports for working and middle classes
• Agreeing with Obama´s values
• Universal health care

Voter groups

Latinos

Positions

• 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

Motives

• Ending the war in Iraq
• Turning around the economy
• Improving access to affordable healthcare

Efforts for 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

Blacks

Motives

• He would be the first black president

Efforts for the blacks

• He will do something against racism

Religious people

Supporters statistics

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).

Motives

Basicly these people are not for Obama but against Bush and so they are against McCain, too.

Links

• Latinos
• Blacks
• Religious People
• Democrats
• Obama
• Gallup

Team 2 - Obama 2

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

Who votes for Obama?

1. people who are against iraq war
2. women
3. people who want a political change
4. young people
5. middle/higher class

People who are against iraq war

• Obama would remove U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months
• Obama said in 2002 before being elected:

"It is an ill-conceived venture which would require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undermined cost, with undetermined consequences."

Women

• Obama has been a leader in the global fight against AIDS
• Obama introduced legislation to combat domestic violence
• Obama introduced legislation to increase child support enforcement
• Obama about abortion: "Women should make their own choice"

People who want a political change

• People want a change and not another Bush

Young people

• Obama feels young and fresh and therefore he is relatable to young people
• Obama loves net-generation tools (the internet)
• Obama is good looking
• Obama pushes change
• Obama thinks education is important

Middle/Higher class

• Obama plans to relieve the burden of the middle class

Blacks

• Obama would be the first black president
• Obama would fight against rascism

"Change We Need" (Obama alone will change the way things are done in politics)

"We talked about the economy for 40 minutes and not once did Sen. McCain talk about the struggles of middle-class families. Not once did he talk about what they are facing every day here in North Carolina and across the country."

"We need a president who will fight for the middle class every day, and that's what I will do when I'm in the Oval Office."

"Willing to meet with the leaders of all nations, friend and foe."

"Fighting climate change is one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation."

"Make math and science education a national priority"

"If you work hard, your work will be rewarded."

Links

• Obama Making Christian Push
• Black Voters
• Obama on MySpace
• Why do young people like Obama?
• Obama slams McCain for not mentioning middle class

Team 3 - Obama 3

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

Obama's attitudes

Illegal immigration

• better policed border controls
• stricter punishments for employers who give unducumented workers jobs

Abortion

• women decide themselves to have an abortion

Climate change

• 80% cut in US greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
• invest $150bn in clean energy

National security

• critics on the Patriot Act
• increased national security funding

Healthcare

• backs universal coverage
• no insurance compulsory for children
• subsidies would make more affordable

Economy

• help middle-class families with targeted tax
• abolishment of Bush tax cuts
• reform healthcare and renegotiate free trade deals

Links

• Official website of Barack Obama → Overview on all information about Barack Obama

Probably voters of Barack Obama

• Taxpayers and homeowners → Interview of Barack Obama in Tampa, FL on September 23^rd, 2008
• blacks → Pieces of an interview with Mickey Kaus on January 23^rd
• Students → Information for students about voting Barack Obama
• Bald-middle-aged-white men → Information about bald-middle-aged-white men voting Obama and responses on this topic

Who doesn't vote absolutely for McCain?

• People who don't like that he's an Officer (for example a middle-aged woman Statement)
• Phillip Butler because John McCain broke the rules regularly in POW-times for example Interview

Team 4 - McCain 1

Members

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

Links

Johnny

MySpace von John McCain

What are Mccain's aims?

He wants to

• reform social security and healthcare
• reduce the greenhouse gas emissions
• abolish abortion and wants to change the law
• make stem-cell research illegal
• allow the death penalty but not for youngster
• build 45 more nuclear power plants

What are their attitudes?

1. they are enemies of abortion
2. they are enemies of the restriction of weapons

Voters

1. Women
2. White People
3. Conservative People
4. Bush supporters

Team 5 - McCain 2

Teammates: Tobias, Pascal, Sophia and Eva

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.

-catholics

What are their attitudes?

-they're agianst abortion

-they are against the restriction of weapons

What are these people's main motives?

-Catholics: "John McCain has a common sense vision for America based on faith, freedom, and families."

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.

Which voters do clearly not favour McCain?

-Blacks

-obama voters

-people who are against bush

-people who want a "change"

Links

Why John McCain?

Who votes for Mccain?

Women for Mccain and Palin?

McCain supporters largely agree on alternative energy.

The worst of John McCain playlist.

Catholic Supporters

Reasons not to vote for McCain

Team 6 - McCain 3

Eva Kehrlein

Stephan Mantel

Theresa Klinger

Sandra Krieger

...to be continued

John McCain

• would be the oldest president

Who votes for John McCain?

• Disappointed voters of Hillary Clinton
• Bush followers
• Those who ranked the war in Iraq the most important
• conservative, religious & bigoted People

They don't trust McCain

• The National Rifle Association

Which people can't he persuade?

• Obama
• Rage against the machine

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

His issues

Official website of John McCain

Young voters against MCCaine

Team 7 - McCain 4

Anka, Eva, Felix

1. Who votes for McCain? Why?

• Hillary Voters: people that backed Hillary Clinton are dissappointed. They don´t want Obama for President.
• Women: topics like families, education and health security are popular
• Most of the Whites and Protestants
• Bikers: "John McCain has an unwavering commitment to duty, honor and country"
• Blacks: hope for equal education and chances for their children (only 4%!!)
• American Natives: political self-determination and economic self-sufficiency
• Disabilities: chance to join workforce, acceptit members of society

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

a)Promisses:

• Reform campaign finance system
• Reduction in the corporate tax
• Eliminating tax loopholes and ending corporate welfare
• Enchance homeland security
• Confirm qualified judges like Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito
• Promote innovation and productivity
• Encourage companies to keep their operations and jobs in the United States

b) What he does/did

• Spokes against his own party to convince democrates

c) Reform:

• Education
• Health care services

3. McCain convinces not in...

• abortion: wants to overturne the law, that allwos abortion
• climate change: won´t stop greenhouse gas emissions until China and India stop it
• gay marriage
• the restriction of weapons

4. People which won´t vote for McCain

• homosexuals
• most of the black population
• war veterans
• many young people

Links

• They trust him on Economy
• Official hompage of John McCain
• Women for McCain