Pre-East Coast Primaries

As we approach the end of the republican elections, which will culminate the beginning of June, our front-runner seems to be clearer now than in past primaries. Mitt Romney is leading the way with 577 total delegates. Coming up this Tuesday, the top three still running republican candidates, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul, will be heading to the East coast. New York, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania primaries are up and with the new opening of Rick Santorum’s voters, each still-running candidate has tactics in mind to win over those voters. This turn of events could go any which way and we will have to stay tuned and hear how the citizens will sway. There are new speculations that Newt Gingrich may be soon to also drop out of the race, but for now those are just rumors.

Rick Santorum had announced on April 10th that he will be suspending his electoral race. He made note that his daughter Bella had been hospitalized for the second time during his republican race due to a genetic disorder and he would not be able to continue in this election. He dropped out of the race but will still continue with his beliefs and in his fight. He did not lead his delegates toward anyone, but in my opinion, Mitt Romney will definitely be benefitting from this situation. Rick Santorum seemed to do really well in the south but not so well in the Midwest, so who knows how the east coast would have reacted to his presidential election and beliefs this upcoming week. We will never know I guess. He has chosen to suspend his race to enable any chance of reimbursement that could still come his way to repay his debts. 

Santorum remarks on the race thus far based on his experiences this year: “This race was as improbable as any race you’ll ever see for president.” We will just have to wait and see how this will affect this week’s delegates. Stay tuned.

Article Comparisons

For my article comparisons, I reviewed two different types of articles about our Penn State Dance Marathon. One article is by 6abc.com News and one is by our very own Onward State. The two articles are on the same event, but have very different effects. The audiences are completely different and therefore the writers must take different tones. One tone is directed toward students and volunteers with firsthand experience. They have a completely different look on the event and feelings which make the students want to read things that they don’t know about, instead of the statistics the 6abc shares.

The outside view of the 6abc article shares facts and numbers that many people who don’t live in State College may not know about. Although it is so common to many of us locals and students, many people from other states have not heard of it or don’t know much. The article is more informative with quotes from volunteers so other people can grasp a little bit of the feeling the event produces. The eye-catching fact is that we raised $10 million, but for the students around here, that’s common knowledge.

Although the two articles have the same topic, they have very different tones, audiences, central ideas, etc. They have different effects and appeal to different demographics and age groups.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8549871

http://onwardstate.com/2012/02/23/in-repsonse-to-what-thon-means-to-me/