Ashley has made a very good point in her article "Presidents or Celebrities?" as she talks about Presidents and presidential canidates and their many appearances on talk shows. She makes some very good points. "Usually, Presidents and presidential candidates do anything from make jokes about opponents or give opinions on fashion...I feel that, sometimes, appearances like this take priority over critical issues facing our country." I really enjoyed her article and agree with her opinions.
I would like to stay in the same topic but in a slightly different direction and talk about specifically how these media appearances affect elections. In any sort of election, many times popularity plays a big role. Typically, and this makes obvious sense, people are more likely to vote for someone if they are popular - their friends, family, or media likes them - and, in the case of younger voters, cool. We've all seen those commercials with celebrities promoting presidential candidates, or presidents/candidates being interviewed on talk shows talking about every day things, such as fashion, like Ashley mentioned.
I think it is unfortunate that elections, particularly presidential, are often times affected by popularity rather than how responsible an individual is. Just because someone is popular and has a good taste in fashion does not mean they are fit to run the county. But then, how would we know, when they are too busy talking about simple things irrelivant to running the country instead of more serious talks?
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