Media and politics

Fox News on Benghazi

Tucker Carlson - http://video.foxnews.com/v/2755079102001/white-house-dodging-benghazi-security-questions/

Did Obama know - http://video.foxnews.com/v/2755079102001/white-house-dodging-benghazi-security-questions/

WWII memorial - http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/03/fox-friends-obama-sent-more-security-wwii-memorial-benghazi

Daisy ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k&safe=active

American Crossroads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhXGkeMdOJs&safe=active

Obama buys primetime slot

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/10/obama-buys-prim/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0JhEtzch4Y&safe=active

General Electric

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/the-military-industrial-media-complex/

http://www.businessinsider.com/top-25-us-defense-companies-2012-2?op=1

MSNBC

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/msnbc-drones-doj-memo_n_2630070.html

Independent media

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://www.tomdispatch.com/

http://www.tytnetwork.com/

http://www.democracynow.org/

Manufactured Consent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhEBCWMe44&safe=active

Political culture and media - video clips

Jon Stewart on Romney's 47% video
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bulls--t-mountain

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bull--t-mountain---video-distractions

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-19-2012/chaos-on-bulls--t-mountain---the-entitlement-society


GOP voter suppression
http://gawker.com/even-the-daily-show-was-shocked-by-this-racist-gop-lead-1451400551


Jon Stewart on Crossfire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&safe=active

Internships with Senator Wyden

Contact John Michels at (503) 326-7525

Polling and 2012 election demographics

Push polls
Republican Jewish Coalition against Obama: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13516.html

McCain's family photo from the 2000 Republican primary: http://rumorswiki.org/images/6/6e/McCainFamily.jpg

Quotes from 2000 Republican primary push poll: "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?"

"John McCain calls the campaign finance system corrupt, but as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, he raises money and travels on the private jets of corporations with legislative proposals before his committee. In view of this, are you much more likely to vote for him, somewhat more likely to vote for him, somewhat more likely to vote against him or much more likely to vote against him?"

Polling
Congress less popular than cockroaches: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/01/congress-somewhere-below-cockroaches-traffic-jams-and-nickleback-in-americans-esteem.html

Congress approval rating yearly average is at an all-time low: http://www.gallup.com/poll/165281/congress-job-approval-falls-amid-gov-shutdown.aspx

GMO labeling polling at 93% in favor: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/science/strong-support-for-labeling-modified-foods.html?_r=0

Universal background checks for purchasing firearms: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57564386-10391739/

Legalization of marijuana at all-time high: http://www.gallup.com/poll/165539/first-time-americans-favor-legalizing-marijuana.aspx


2012 election demographics
PowerPoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NicZTrCciQaZw_qJN9ssr0WZWiGqY7U17oYhXGfr5Ls/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Tables, charts, and graphs: http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_12.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/08/us/politics/obama-was-not-as-strong-as-in-2008-but-strong-enough.html?_r=0

http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/politics/10-amazing-demographic-percentages-of-the-2012-election-20121109

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/07/the-2012-election-in-charts/


Pop culture affecting election outcomes
Bush v. Gore: http://www.jpetrie.net/2009/05/22/bush-gore-2000-debates/

Obama v. McCain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDqSvJ6aHc&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE-OCDexYrU&safe=active

Homework: Unit 3 readings

Oct. 26
Is Obama toast?  Handicapping the 2012 election - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/nate-silver-handicaps-2012-election.html?pagewanted=all


Oct. 27
Nate Silver-led statistics men crush pundits in election - http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-07/nate-silver-led-statistics-men-crush-pundits-in-election

Nate Silver: Eight cool things journalists should know about statistics - http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/226489/nate-silver-eight-cool-things-journalists-should-know-about-statistics/

Number cruncher Nate Silver says his approach is not tricky - http://www.startribune.com/business/227929331.html


Nov. 3
Colbert roasts Bush - 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FTF4Oz4dI&safe=active

Unit 3 syllabus/study guide

The Unit 3 syllabus/study guide can be found here.

Senator Wyden assignment

Research Senator Wyden over the weekend.  Here are a few links to get you started:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/23/ron-wyden-is-wonkish-optimistic-idiosyncratic-and-about-to-be-very-powerful/

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/meet-senates-powerful-and-progressive-policy-wonk-ron-wyden

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyden


Write at least 5 questions for Senator Wyden over the weekend that you want to ask him during the Q&A portion of Monday's talk.  I will collect your questions at the end of Senator Wyden's visit.

Possible topics to focus on:

• Snowden, the NSA, and the FISA court
• Healthcare
• Drone strikes
• The government shutdown
• The debt ceiling

Tuesday articles

Millions of poor are left uncovered by health law: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/health/millions-of-poor-are-left-uncovered-by-health-law.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp&

'Food insecurity' may be high, but states are still saying no to federal food-stamp support: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/09/04/food-insecurity-may-be-high-but-states-are-still-saying-no-to-federal-food-stamp-support/

Monday article

http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2009/2/v32n1-1.pdf

Scholarship opportunity

http://www.apcf.org/what-we-do/110

Potential consequences of not raising the debt ceiling

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-10-06/a-u-dot-s-dot-default-seen-as-unprecedented-catastrophe-dwarfing-lehman

Upcoming Supreme Court cases

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/the-supreme-court-returns.html?ref=supremecourt&_r=0

Government shut down and debt ceiling readings

James Fallows
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/why-this-is-not-just-washington-breakdown-in-3-graphs-and-1-story/280099/?google_editors_picks=true

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/your-false-equivalence-guide-to-the-days-ahead/280062/

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-two-basic-facts-that-should-be-in-every-shutdown-story/280179/


Andrew Sullivan
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/10/01/the-nullification-party/

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/09/27/how-to-think-about-obamacare/

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/09/26/the-gops-demands/


Ezra Klein
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/26/wonkbook-the-houses-debt-ceiling-bill-is-wow/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/dont-forget-what-the-shutdown-is-really-about/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/our-governing-crisis-in-one-sentence/


Thomas Friedman
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/opinion/friedman-our-democracy-is-at-stake.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0


Greg Sargent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/09/26/the-morning-plum-the-gops-debt-limit-strategy-is-insane-people-should-say-so/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/09/30/our-current-governing-crisis-in-two-sentences/


Derek Thompson
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/here-are-the-gops-debt-ceiling-demands-and-they-are-insane/280012/


National Review (conservative news and opinions)
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/360122/holding-firm-robert-costa

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/360092/ongoing-health-care-debate-yuval-levin