Saturday Night Live

I got to watch last weeks Saturday night live with John McCain on a guest. They had Tina Fey do her dead on impression of Sarah Palin with him. They did a skit with the two of them on a shopping network because John McCain said he couldn't afford to put an infomercial on three major networks like Barack Obama did! So McCain and "Palin" were on the shopping network selling various things with funny political double meanings. I thought it was really funny and really fair honestly. They let McCain poke fun at himself, and "Palin" advertised shirts that said "Palin 2012" on them. I thought it was great way for John McCain to react to Obama's big TV night. It made McCain look good is what I'm getting at, which suprised me that SNL would do that. It was great!

Obama Infomercial

Last week Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama played a 30 minute infomercial on most major networks. The message was once last shot at convincing voters that he is the guy for the job. I noticed that the infomercial was strategically designed to reach and relate to all Americans. Every type of American was represented in the video, and I don't think that was on accident. He wanted to cater to as many people as possible. There were four family units that were focused on:
1. A young white couple with several children
-struggling to pay bills
-stuggling to keep grocieries and food on the table
2. An older black couple
- she has arthritis and the medications are costing them alot of money
-he works at Wal-Mart, even though he had already retired he had to go back to work to pay medical bills
3. A middle aged Hispanic woman
-widowed with two children
-trying to pay for them to get a good education
-showed her with her big extended family all sitting around the dinner table
-she works two jobs, a teacher and a caregiver
4.A white middle aged couple
-their family has worked for Ford for generations
-his work got cut back and they are having trouble with bills
-has children to support

Almost everyone can relate to some aspect of these four stories that were covered. I thought it was a strategic way for the Obama campaign to relate to as many Americans as possible.