Civic Engagement

Student Debt-Elizabeth Warren-Fighting Chance

Now is the time as young adults graduating from college to join the campaign of Elizabeth Warren. As young Americans we owe it to ourselves to finally get behind a candidate who is looking out for our needs, our wants, and our battle, the student loan battle. 

 Running for president is not an easy task, for instance look at Hillary Clinton, she's basically been running for 4 years now for the 2016 election, Elizabeth Warren on the other hand has been doing all the hard work that other senators only pretend they do, she's proved again and again that she is here for the American people and that making America better is her one mission in her political career. As young adults and the future leaders of tomorrow for our country it is our duty and responsibility to join the same side as Elizabeth Warren and help her fight the battle that is solely directly related to our generation.

 Warren needs our help to spread her message, point of views, and political beliefs to the American people and how to turn America into the power house that it once was but is now facing an economic decline. Warren has a laid out plan on how to help the American people achieve their idea of the American dream and how to make the playing field more even. 

Whether it is working at a local phone bank, hitting the road with Warren and her campaign team, or donating funds to support Elizabeth Warren, everything helps, it doesn't matter if it's big or small anything and everything will help with the battle that Warren is fighting, and that she is fighting for us. 

 Below is how Warren feels about certain hot topic issues, if you personally agree with Warren on any of these issues then she might be the candidate for you to rally with. As Warren gears up for potential running for president in 2016 she will declare why and how she's going to improve America and join us in the battle of equal rights.

 http://ballotpedia.org/Elizabeth_Warren

On The Issues Vote Quiz[21]
Economic Issues		Social Issues
Issue	Stance	Issue	Stance
Legally require hiring women & minorities	Strongly Favors	Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right	Strongly Favors
Expand ObamaCare	Strongly Favors	Comfortable with same-sex marriage	Strongly Favors
Vouchers for school choice	Opposes	Keep God in the public sphere	Strongly Opposes
Absolute right to gun ownership	Strongly Opposes	Human needs over animal rights	Strongly Opposes
Higher taxes on the wealthy	Strongly Favors	Stricter punishment reduces crime	Opposes
Support & expand free trade	Opposes	Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens	Strongly Favors
Stricter limits on political campaign funds	Strongly Favors	Maintain US sovereignty from UN	Unknown
Prioritize green energy	Strongly Favors	Expand the military	Opposes
Stimulus better than market-led recovery	Strongly Favors	Stay out of Iran	Favors
Privatize Social Security	Strongly Opposes	Never legalize marijuana	Favors
Note: Information last updated: April 19, 2015.[20] If you notice the rating has changed, email us.

Press Coverage

Press Coverage

Elizabeth Warren

After a quick “Google” search of Elizabeth Warren the first thing that pops up is from USA Today with the article titled “Warren fires back at Obama on trade.” Then the second article that pops up is also regarding the trade war but it’s from the Huffington Post and is titled “Obama: Elizabeth Warren is Simply Wrong on TPP.” Then the third thing that pops up titled “You can’t read this” and is from the website Elizabeth Warren for Senate.

The USA Today article is clearly just summarizing what took place, what Obama said and what Warren said, basically just allowing readers to play catch up in this Democratic spat.

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/04/22/elizabeth-warren-obama-trade/

The Huffington Post article basically recaps of what he said (Obama) she said

(Warren), but still allows the readers to be informed of the situation and shines a positive light onto the Democratic Party.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/21/obama-elizabeth-warren-tpp_n_7111524.html

The last article is that from elizabathwarren.com and in this article it is obviously from her (Warren) own people. The article is very descriptive and uses quotes from Warren’s speech that she gave in regards about the trade and she points out how wrong it is for Obama and his team to be denying the public people right to be aware of what conditions are involved in the trade. In this article it highly demonstrates the “Press Coverage” of what we have learned about this week from the chapters we read. Warren’s team is trying to control the situation, by releasing their own statements, their own tweets, reaching out to the media on their view points. But, like we learned higher ranking government officials pull the most rank when it comes to “press coverage” and controlling the media and what is said, therefore Obama is getting more press coverage on this issue with Warren than Warren is.

http://elizabethwarren.com/blog/you-cant-read-this

This is the video of Warren explain her thoughts, points of views, and what’s really going on with the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement. (It’s about 8 minutes long, just so you know.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfxv2XQoPg

Friend or foe?

The way the Huffington Post article and USA Today article talk about the spat between Obama and Warren isn’t necessarily a negative trait that could harm Warren’s campaign for president if she ever does decide to run. If anything, articles like these help set Warren apart from Obama and really making her the “Different Democratic” that the Democratic Party badly needs for the 2016 presidential election. However, for Elizabeth Warren specifically the only media that could help her is the press coverage from her own team and supports if she ever changes her mind and does decide to run for president. However, with the different view point of President Obama could be a turning point for Warren and she could end up deciding to throw her name in the hat for the run of the Democratic nominee against Hillary Clinton, she’s a pistol and as a support you really have no idea what Warren has up her sleeve.  

Media Bias

Media Bias?

 

As we all know Elizabeth Warren still has not announced (or plan too) that she will be running for president in 2016 but that does not mean that she is not in the media, at both ends of the spectrum. Warren was recently featured on CNN to discuss her book and what the focus of the 2016 presidential election should be, middle-class families and the economy. In this video it shows the softer but strong voiced Senator that Warren is known for. As we know CNN is more of a liberal news source therefore, them showing this video and featuring Warren isn’t a total shocker. The video portrays Warren as down to earth woman who knows her information and isn’t afraid to speak the truth.

http://money.cnn.com/video/news/economy/2015/04/10/elizabeth-warren-2016-families.cnnmoney/index.html

On the opposite end of the spectrum, on The Blaze I found an article that discusses the urge some Democrats have for Elizabeth Warren to run for president. The article is very straight forward and discusses what state the signatures are from. The article is mostly quotes and doesn’t have any room for opinions, especially conservative opinions which is what The Blaze is. However, she Warren has repeatedly said no to running for president, it was difficult to find a specific article on the conservative side of news media that discussed her “what-if” running situation.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/19/dem-lawmakers-in-early-states-crank-up-the-pressure-for-elizabeth-warren-for-2016/

Between the two different news links Elizabeth Warren is portrayed as a hero, in the CNN video she comes off as a Senator for the people, she comes off as knowledge and well put together. In The Blaze article it discusses that organized liberal groups are putting together petitions for Warren to run, even though she has repeatedly said no to running for president.

Based on everything that I have researched about Warren for the last couple of weeks, her beliefs, and attitude were portrayed both equally from both media news sources. Warren for example is total opposite of Sarah Palin when it comes to their mannerisms and speaking style and neither of these specific news reports make Warren come off as a Palin alike, the new sources make her seem like the senator that she is, a passionate person.  There is nothing unfair in either of these reports that would be considered biased media information, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t biased information and articles out there because, well there is. The only “unfair” comment in The Blaze article is that it says Warren would trail far behind Clinton, which who’s to say Warren wouldn’t give Clinton a run for her money and win?

If a voter was unaware of Elizabeth Warren, her qualifications, or what she beliefs in that voter would most likely be surprised that by both of these news reporters she is a liberal who is for the middle class, especially middle class families, recent college graduates who are facing loan debt, and that even though she has declared she has no intentions of running for president so has enough followers and believers that they are petitioning for her to reconsider and to run against Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.

Media, Pop Culture and Politics

Elizabeth Warren, Will she, won’t she?
 

Politics, late night comedy, Seth Meyers? Sounds like a perfect combination. Seth Meyer finally tackles the question of Elizabeth Warren and running for President in 2016, finally because as we all know nobody, nobody has yet to think to ask Ms. Warren if she’s going to run, the Senator from Massachusetts.

As we all know Elizabeth Warren has not declared to run for President in 2016 and has stated several times that she has no intentions or desires to run for president, but that does not stop support groups, writers, reporters, and citizens not to question if she’s going to run. Warren has been saying no to running for president since 2014 but the media will simply not take no for an answer.

I have chosen to use this clip from Late Night with Seth Meyers, where he uses a segment of his show titled “Will they or won’t they?” Meyers mocks the media for refusing to believe Warren that she will not run for president in 2016. Although this isn’t necessary a “negative opinion” if Warren does decided to run for president or is planning to run, then her going against her own words would mostly likely bring up judgment calls. Yes, people change their minds, politicians change their minds, but in this clip from Late Night with Seth Meyers, he gives several different interviews clips of Warren saying no to running for president and Meyers is mocking the media because they won’t give up on asking Warren if she’s going to run, there’s no doubt a dumbing down effect that is occurring during this segment, although it isn’t directly towards Elizabeth Warren she’s still associated with it.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/seth-meyers-mocks-media-for-refusing-to-believe-elizabeth-warren-on-2016/

I don’t believe that this image completely puts Warren into a bind, it’s making fun of a delicate situation but it doesn’t comprise Warren’s image to do so. It does make Warren seems playing hard to get, especially when Meyers plays a clip of Barack Obama saying he has no intentions of running for president in 2008 from an interview in 2006, it makes you as the audience ponder if Warren is really telling the truth, does she have zero intentions of running for president.

The only way that this clip could cause a “backfire” or “push back” of Warren’s image is if it is used out of context, or an opponent uses it to their advantage saying Elizabeth is not even confident in herself to run for president, then why should we as a nation believe she has what it takes to run for president.

In all the interview clips of Warren during Meyer’s segment, she is very personable, honest, and keeps her image of being powerful women with softer edges. The segment from Meyer’s show is a fun, harmless way of poking fun at the media, and the segment gave Warren free air time, getting her name out at a national level, and allowed citizens to see her in a different light, rather than just the political realm.