Thursday, February 7, 2008

A Fine Mess

By MARC AMBINDER
New York Times
Published: February 7, 2008

This article explains how the democrats presenting their candidates at a certain time of the year depending on what region might help or hemorrhage their presidential run. The author uses a lot of great facts and refers to many different dates. He mentions the good and the bad of certain times depending on what region of the United States they are in. However, if you don't follow the election and politics very closely[like myself] the article can get pretty confusing very quickly. He kind of just presents you with all of these dates and assumes that you know what happened on them. He doesn't really mention why these are good dates or explain them very well, nor does he mention exactly what happened on these dates. I think the article was well written, as the author had many interesting facts and proves his point very well with the given facts. But, I had to read over it a few seperate times to completely understand the article.

4 comments:

Elizabeth Antoon said...

It sounds like this writer wanted to sound smart and used facts that he did not support. He should have given reasons for those facts to make the article make sense.

Elizabeth Barker said...

I think this article is directed toward an audience of people who are very informed about politics. I think that if I, who am not well informed about politics, read this article I would have thoguth it was not well written. I think this article would be very confusing to the average person.

Marissa Mederos said...

I would have likes to see more into the facts presented. I find politics hard to follow so I definitely would have had to read this article a few times.

Michael_Barker said...

Not being very good with politics I would find myself not able to follow an article like this unless everything was broken down for me. But obviously the article was written for people who know what he is talking about.