Blog #7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZissiEvIM

This ad brings positivity and hope to our nation. It shows all types of people and how working hands are the heart of this country. Trump was mocked being told his hands and fingers are small, and created a joke out of it by turning it entirely into positivity. The strategy brings everyday people with completely different backgrounds to represent how "these hands" have accomplished so much for America. This is a candidate positive ad for Donald Trump. The strategy most commonly seen was the diversity of people allowing a large audience to have the ability to relate to this ad. This is a great ad in my opinion, and turned negative comments on Trump into humor with strong meaning behind the message this ad gets across to the audience.

This picture sow Trump seeming to be proud with the words "Aspire to greatness" conveying what his face is showing. He looks determined in this photo, and therefore bringing positivity on himself through this ad. The space shuttle represents many things our country has accomplished in our space program and is a big part of American history.

While this picture is humorous, we have learned many truths behind this statement. Trump doesn't seem to know when to be quiet or loud at appropriate times as he is known for saying whatever he feels is necessary during any particular time or situation. However, his words and blunt ability with the media lead him to a victory in the presidential election!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YINooPV7jM

This is a hate ad for Trump making him appear to be extremely racist. He appears to be a ruthless leader with no problem hurting innocent people if it means taking out the vast amount of the enemy. It goes on to talk about abortion and how Trump did not seem to handle that topic well at all. The biggest attack is the way it shows a large number of individuals saying negative things about who Trump really is to them. They attempt to make fun of him and appear as though he has many issues of lacking intelligence. These two ads really to expose Trump to those who know little about the man. The strategy is to make Trump look like an undesirable selection as president, and I feel it does a good job at attacking him from all angles. They expose him as a liar, saying racist things, and just flat out saying the wrong thing at the wrong time over and over. Another strategy is bringing in popular or well known people saying negative comments towards Trump to help authenticate this ads claims.

Trump has dealt with more negativity throughout his campaign, and dished out the most controversy this country has ever seen. I am interested to see if this country will thrive or on the other hand hit a recession with such an unpredictable president in office.

Blog #6

Trump has a website and is involved with social media on Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He keeps his Facebook up to date with the topics going on reflecting his image in a positive way. His Instagram account consists mostly of photos showing you how Trump can be seen doing things everyday people can relate to. I believe this helps the public see he can in some ways relate to the average American. He is most known for his Twitter account. This social media site has gotten him into more trouble than any other social media site he is involved in. It is no secret that Trump has basically no filter when it comes to saying what he wants to even in some cases at very inappropriate times. He has been caught numerous times lying on his Twitter, or simply just saying ridiculous things. Overall, Trump is quite active on his social media sites in comparison to most. He is known to many as the king of social media.

His ability to use social media so well has brought attention to several people across the nation. The publicity in my opinion helped him win the election. However, the hatred and negativity he seemed to bring on his social media sites can not be a good look for someone with hopes of being a leader to so many others. As President he is going to need someone monitoring what he Tweets out for example in order to keep any unnecessary problems from occurring. His most important online source of social media has to be his Twitter account, because it has by far brought in the most publicity for both good and bad reasons.

Trump did an excellent job at getting people to pay attention to his online presence. For a man his age it is unbelievable how many different age groups have interest in what he has to say. His unpredictable mindset has kept people entertained in what he is going to do or say next. Filtering out the nonsense and rants about topics that offend others needs to be something he works on. It will hurt him more than ever if he continues this behavior since he now has such a great amount of important responsibilities to obtain. The most interesting posts Trump included were the ones with relevance of importance to the betterment of our country. He needs to focus on politics and the way our country is developing for the better. This will bring hope to the American people in a positive display. The profanity and bold claims were the messages he sent out on Twitter that I found to be the posts he sent out with the most engagement from his followers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-06/trump-has-made-the-social-media-manager-your-most-valuable-employee

http://fortune.com/2017/02/03/donald-trump-tweets-democracy/

Blog #5

The polls for my candidate were clearly not in has favor given that 29 percent off FiveThirtyEight's forecast had given Trump by far the highest chance of him winning in the outcome. The historical approach FiveThirtyEight took make since as to why they had given Trump a better chance. The polls did not think Trump had a chance, and were off more than ever before in a Presidential election. The national polls were correct in that Clinton did win the popular vote. The people who are less likely to take the surveys were low income and individuals with very little education. Trump had several voters in this category, who probably were never even surveyed. Some people saw voting for Trump as socially undesirable, therefore hid the fact that they were really going to vote for him. Social desirability made the people on the phone or taking surveys saying they are going to vote, even though many of these individuals may never actually vote. Missing large groups like this is the main reason the polls were skewed. People are currently reviewing how the polls were so off, and are expected to have a solid answer in May of 2017.
The polling could've been better if they had taken into consideration the individuals with low income or education as a large mass of people who planned on voting for Trump. In order to help me better understand Trumps chances and impressions I would've liked to hear from a more diverse group of people throughout the polls so that I could have a better insight of how good of a chance he truly had. I would want to ask why they did not consider certain groups such as the low income families across the nation who seemed to have a desire to vote for Trump. What is important about polling is the way we have now seen how easily it can be misguiding. It matters to those who look into the polling process in depth, and see the validity behind it.
 We have so many people working into getting the polls as accurate as we possibly can, however different groups will send out all kinds of different percentages as to who is going to win. It is nearly impossible to be exactly right on how likely someone is going to win the election due to all of the limitations polls bring. The limitations for polls include the way people can simply lie about who they are going to vote for or if they are actually going to vote. This will cause the polls to be inaccurate as we saw during this election. People seeing Trump as someone not socially acceptable to admit they are voting for had to of played a key role in why the pollsters did such a terrible job at figuring out what the real outcome would be. Nonresponse bias I believe took place in a larger quantity than any election before, because of those who did not want to admit which candidate they were voting for.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/why-2016-election-polls-missed-their-mark/

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/president/