thedorseyshawexperience:

YEP.

Pathos.
Pathos.
Ethos?
Pathos.

Fantastic marketing, really.

Dear Mitt Romney,

barackobama:

David Ryan:

I’m an 18-year old college student, and I’m voting for Barack Obama because he is not completely out of touch with the rest of the American population. He understands the financial struggles that are afflicting our nation and is seeking ways to restore equal opportunity to its people, rather than make jokes out of it or throw $10,000 around like its pocket change.

Also, he found the time to make a bracket … and kick 98% of America’s butt at it.

He does, however, make jokes about predator drones.

squashedcomments: thecheekylibertarian: call-it-kizmet: …my family owes our futures to him. His health insurance reforms saved my dad’s life when he had an untimely stroke after he was unemployed, and without health insurance. We were able to extend his coverage because of his work on COBRA. He’s going to college now on financial… Wow, seriously? COBRA’s a joke. My mother pays over $400/mo for that crap.And if you have two degrees, both of which are useless, I’m sorry, but clearly more college isn’t the answer. This particular sequence of mocking people’s personal healthcare stories is not helping the “libertarians are uncaring assholes” stereotype… I could very well be wrong, but I think most of my posts are relatively respectful and, at the very least, not condescending. And I am an extremely forgiving person, but the bulk of this ‘Dear Mitt Romney’ promotional campaign serve as a deceptive promotional tool which takes advantage of passionate ignorance and misinformed desperation and brand loyalty to further a man who has contributed to very few of the things these people attribute to him, particularly given the lightbulb memory associated with unreliable but extremely influential anecdotal evidence (i.e. sob stories); I am more critical of the utilization of ignorance for a deceptive political purpose than ignorance itself. That is why I am being somewhat harsh. That and people have got to wake up and realize that more education doesn’t mean more marketable skills. This country is drowning in student debt and useless degrees.

Obama for America: I support Obama because…

Dear Mitt Romney,

hearmemeow:

I am voting for Obama because he will protect my rights as a woman, defend the rights of the LGBT community, care for the environment we live in, and do more to alleviate the wealth disparity in America than any Republican candidate.

You ask how any young person could vote for Obama? I ask you, honestly, how can we not? 

MORE VAGUE HANDWAVING THAT’S CODE FOR ‘HIS MARKETING STRATEGY IS FLAWLESS AND I WILL VOTE FOR THE WARMONGER IF IT MEANS I GET TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH HIS PERSONAL BRAND’.

Most of the time, I adore marketing, but when it comes to campaigns, it just hurts to see the level of misinformed consumerist identity politics in which people willingly parade around.

good:

Critics of South by Southwest’s Homeless Hotspots Haven’t Met Jonathan Hill

The backlash against Austin’s Homeless Hotspot program began as soon as the attendees at SXSW’s interactive began tweeting about the 13 homeless men and one woman who are carrying mobile hotspots in their pockets and hawking internet access on street corners. Despite outrage about the Homeless Hotspots at SXSW, the program’s homeless participants and their advocates say it’s a positive development.

Check out the story on GOOD.is→  

We Austinites are so hip and controversial, with our bourgeois homeless people.

Really, though, I have trouble believing anyone at SXSW doesn’t have a smartphone.

(Source: http://www.good.is/post/the-critics-of-south-by-southwest-s-homeless-hotspots-haven-t-met-jonathan-hill/)

good:

Why should women read The Economist?  After all, its current readership is 87 percent men, and its staff is 77 percent men. No small majority.

Read more on GOOD→

That statistic is bizarre. I’m not exactly representative of all women—female politically active ENTP economics students are fairly rare, to be sure— and I am fully aware that women, as a whole, are significantly less politically informed than men, but the material doesn’t really seem to lend itself to such a male-dominant demographic. Their marketing does leave a lot to be desired, but… 87%? My inclination is to assume that the lack of personally applicable articles—microeconomics/more person-focused articles would likely spark more interest in women, given my anecdotal understanding of media demographics.

Never mind, my thought processes are those of an economist, not a human. I am the 13%…?

(Source: http://www.good.is/post/why-should-women-read-the-economist/?utm_content=headline&utm_medium=hp_carousel&utm_source=slide_1)

Election season is already in session, y’all. Make sure you go hard.