Your Assignment:
1). Find an article that deals with the Iowa Caucus and its results. Copy and paste the web address.
2). Give a summary of the article.
3). Give your opinion on who you believe will eventually be the republican nominee to run against Obama in November.
Due: Sunday 1/8/12 by no later than 11:59pm
11 comments:
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Following days of saturation caucus coverage, Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz was reminded Monday of a fortune cookie he recently cracked open. "Analyze only when necessary," the cookie advised.
"I thought, if that isn't a counterpoint to the age we're in, in which it's analyze everything large, small and in-between," said Balz, who's never before witnessed such nonstop coverage of the horse race in his three decades trekking to Iowa. The result, he said, becomes "just a flow of conventional wisdom."
National Journal editorial director Ron Brownstein, another one of many high-profile political journalists just leaving Ron Paul's rally at the Des Moines Marriott (de facto headquarters of the national media), jumped in. "The paradox here is the last portion of voters, even in the primaries but certainly in the general, who ultimately tip the thing, are ultimately oblivious to all of it," he said. "They are not consuming any of this stuff."
It's unclear how much journalists in Iowa, while constantly churning out their own copy across platforms and commenting on cable news, are consuming it either. Reporters unplugging for just an hour while driving past cornfields will inevitably arrive at the next campaign stop to find a huge new backlog of unread articles, blog posts, round-up emails and -- in the most striking change since 2008 -- hundreds, if not thousands, of reporter tweets from events across the state. Four years ago, Twitter wasn't a major factor in Iowa knee-jerk analysis.
"I think it's almost impossible for any single voice to break through in a significant way," Balz said. "People write interesting stuff and it gets attention, but it's overtaken so quickly by the volume of information that's moving so fast and the kind of instantaneousness of the analysis."
"It feels, with so much out there, it in essence is devaluing anything that's out there," Brownstein said. "I don't think there are any individual voices that have as much clout as some of the great voices of the past did. I just think the diffusion has changed that. None of us can write something that would have the impact that [the late] Johnny Apple or David Broder once had."
FROM THE PACK TO THE HIVE
These days, established outlets -- like Apple's New York Times or Broder's Washington Post -- battle for eyeballs with everyone else online, including brand-new competitors. BuzzFeed, now led by former Politico reporter Ben Smith, only launched a politics section on Sunday, and yet its reporters have already churned out numerous on-the-ground dispatches and hundreds of Iowa-related tweets from the same events as Times or Post reporters.
The result is a different kind of real-time pack journalism than in past cycles. In 1972, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse followed around Apple, Broder and the rest of the Boys on the Bus, writing how the pack "began to believe the same rumors, subscribe to the same theories, and write the same stories." In the evening, reporters would talk out the defining moment of that day, the key line, and file their stories often repeating that narrative for the next day's edition of the Chicago Tribune or Baltimore Sun. With the exception of a few national agenda-setting publications, like the Times and Post, reporters on the campaign trail primarily wrote for their local audiences.
Now political reporters are usually writing for the world, and the pack has evolved into a hive, constantly buzzing with the latest updates from the trail published via iPhones and BlackBerrys.
On Sunday afternoon, Iowa voters arrived early to get into Mitt Romney's event in Council Bluffs, with the line snaking around the corner. Some attendees even leaned over the railings
it was very interestings and very important informations
1) Iowa caucus results: Mitt Romney beats Rick Santorum by 8 votes
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57351741-503544/iowa-caucus-results-mitt-romney-beats-rick-santorum-by-8-votes/
2) They just talked about how the people would make an impact on how the polls would make a pretty good idea on who would do go, and who would probably take the lead
3)Mitt Romney, just because he won the Iowa caucus, I think its a major key in the race.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-01-03/republican-iowa-caucuses/52367932/1
Iowa caucus winner Mitt Romney campaigned in New Hampshire on Wednesday as all eyes were on Rick Santorum and his surge to the head of the pack with his near-tie win in the race for the presidential nomination.
I beleave that Mitt Romney is going to win the whole campane.
1.)http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Iowa+caucus+results+Rick+Santorum+Mitt+Romney+train+sights+next+White/5945872/story.html
2.)its about choosing the republicans and there is stuff about their campaigns and the polls.
3.) i think mitt romney will because he is in the lead now so i have faith in him!
1. http://iowacaucus.com/2012/01/04/bachmann-cancels-south-carolina-campaign-stops-plans-10-a-m-news-conference/
2. My article was about how Michele Bachmann dropped out of running for Republican nominee for president.
3.My opinion of this is that, Michele Bachmann couldn't win her own state. So she made a good decision. I think Rick Santorum will be the Republican nominee to run against Obama.
I'm awesome
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2082332/Iowa-Caucus-results-2012-In-contest-perfect-ideal-candidate-beat-Obama.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
This article is about the republicans and what they need to do in order to beat Obama.
I think that the republican to end up running against Obama will be Mitt Romney
1- http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/commentary/2012-iowa-caucus-results-confirm-romneys-ideological-gap-with-far-right
2- This article talks about the fact that romney didn't win because of the push for him but the push against gingrich.
3- i think that romney will get the nomination just because he has wider believed ideas that are more middle of the road so the rep.s have a better chance overall. i wouldn't mind gingrich to win but the public doesn't find him as presidential material. herman cain should be the leader in my mind. 2 women wanted their 15 minutes of fame and took the presidency from him.
1.)http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/jan/4/2012-iowa-caucus-recap/
2.) About 122,255 people voted. Romney either won by 8 or Santorum won by 4.
nobody knows how the delegates did and nobody cares. This ends the coverage of the 2012 Iowa Caucus.
3.)I think Mitt Romney will win because he won the iowa caucus.
1-http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/politics/bachmann-and-perry-withdrawals-would-shift-race.html?_r=1&hp
2-the article talk about how the iowa is bigger know and the change have in the race of the republican
3-Ron Paul probably he is gonna win because he is getting everytime more people of his side he is not the first know but probably he will be
1) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012/iowa-caucus-jan-3
2) Shows the percent of how many people voted for each. Video is about the Iowa Caucus and shows us interviews.
3) It will be Mitt Romney because he won the iowa caucus and people who win it usually get elected.
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/commentary/2012-iowa-caucus-results-confirm-romneys-ideological-gap-with-far-right
Mitt Romney received just 24.6 percent of the total votes . Winning by only 8 votes .Santorum has little chance of winning the GOP nomination.Santorum, Gingrich and other candidates who are more conservative than Romney received 73 percent of the vote among them.Iowa contained some encouraging signs. first, even though the caucuses were of little consequence for Obama, Democrats are boasting that 25,000 members of the party.
Romney is the republican nominee to run against Obama in November. because he is a very popular face in the polotics.
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