Genre Evaluation: Election 2016: Too Soon?

Election 2016: Too Soon?

In the article I chose to listen to the speaker, Ken Rubin, gives his opinion towards what the election of 2016 will most likely look like. After these last few weeks of non-stop political talk with the election between Romney and Obama, the speaker takes a different route and uses sources to relay the ideas of who could be considered by each party to run for president in 2016. He does not use sources to tell exactly who each party would be choosing in the next election but instead states the information taken from a source and draws his own conclusions towards who the parties would most likely be considering. For example, Marco Rubio a senator from Florida is consider as a top choice for the republican party because of the fact that Florida is one of the most important state in the election which is always very close, and his ties to the latino community could really help the republican party. Rubin drew this conclusion because Romney did not receive as much of the latino vote as the party would have liked which in the end cost the electoral votes in Florida and maybe the election. Another conclusion that was drawn by the speaker was how instead of the usual vice president running for president after the end of the president’s term the democratic party could instead decide to go with Hilary Clinton. The speaker heard from sources that Joe Biden could be considered too old to be considered for the presidency job and Hilary Clinton would be the obvious choice for the party. Rubin does not do a good job when it comes to citing his sources though, in the article you pretty much just have to take his word for it because he just talk about inside sources in each political parties but doesn't define his exact sources. It is easy to tell the Rubin is consider by the host of the show and himself as a political expert. In the beginning of the show he is introduced as a “political junkie” which makes the listener confident in the Rubin knowing what he is talking about. It is obvious that the information and statistics given by the speaker is provided to help support his opinions on which candidates will be chosen in 2016. The thoughts were expressed very simply, Rubin started with an introduction on how the democrats won this year and what the republicans did wrong; then talked about what the republicans choice of candidate should be, followed by the democrats choice for the election, and finishes with a short expectation of the 2016 election. This article did do a good job on shedding light on what the next election will look like, personally I think it is too soon to already start predicting the next election but for someone that is interested it is an interesting article. 

I am still not 100% sure on what my topic for project three will be, because I was not in class on Monday I am still going to wait on more information on the project. That being said I think it could be interesting to do a project on playing a sport at school, being a business student, or being a part of greek life.