-A relevant website that is connected to my blog and that I have used many times in my blog is the National Public Radio website, or www.npr.org. I have found this website to be very useful because it covers a lot on both campaigns and is a very reliable source to learn from. Something else that is good about NPR is that they have articles that they have written and also articles that are taken from other sources. Even if the articles are from other sources, you can still know that they are reliable, and it makes a search for information a lot easier. There is not really a main focus of this website other than news. It provides world and local news, environmental news, health news, business news, and even entertainment news. For this blog, I have been using it for election news, but in discovering this website, I go to NPR for my news on many other things. It is very useful.
There are a couple articles I would like to comment on. I have posted both of them on this blog. What I find interesting about these two articles is that they are news stories that you listen too instead of read. I think this is great because it gives more emotion to the article and it is sometimes easier to follow than reading something that may not be word for word. I also think it helps my blog because it gives the reader something a little more interesting.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96019313 -This is just an interesting article.

-So far in discussing Sarah Palin, I have focused on her as appealing to the vote of women in the United States. Though many say this is the reason she was chosen to be a running mate to John McCain, there may be some other reasons that people might not think of. One of these strong reasons could be her appeal to small town and rural America. Since she is currently governor of Alaska, she would be in touch with the small town feeling because there aren’t any large cities in Alaska.
Though she may appeal to the women in the United States because she would be a woman in a high leadership position for the country, I think there are other aspects to Sarah Palin that I and maybe others had not thought about. Was she chosen only for the female vote? I am not sure, but I think she is not only capturing the attention of American female voters, but also of people all across rural and small town America. Even while thinking about this, I will still focus on her appeal to women, but this week, I was unable to find anything reliable on that subject, so to keep on a female leader, I thought to look at Sarah Palin from another view.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95664781

SNL Skit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDqSvJ6aHc

-Yes, this SNL skit with “featuring” Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton is very funny; everybody laughs when they see it. But could this skit somehow send a poor message about female leaders? This is a question I have heard somebody ask, so I thought about it. I have seen this skit many times online and even on the news channels. When I first watched it, I just laughed and thought, “Wow that is pretty funny.” But then I thought about it and wondered. Could this make the idea of female leaders look bad? True, the goal of the skit was probably to make Sarah Palin look bad and stupid, but I think that both actors portrayed both their characters as sort of bad and stupid. Yes, it is a comedy, but it can still impact people in a poor way. Both potential leaders are on screen, giving stupid or sarcastic answers to issues. I think that though this is a comedy of Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton, it may be based off the true opinions of some. Even with all this analysis, I have decided that overall this skit does not truly hurt the idea of a female leader in the United States. I think people ask the question more because this is a big year for female candidates. But in all the presidential races, there are skits, comics, or ads that make fun of whoever is running. There are even these same things made against people who are in office. Overall, it does not affect people’s true views, it is just something to laugh at.