Why This Election Feels Never Ending Rhetorical Analysis

“Why This Election Feels Never-Ending” Rhetorical Analysis The article “Why This Election Feels Never-Ending” is an opinion based article on the website New York Times on September 6, 2016. The writer, Emma Roller, is showing the voters why the election is so much longer this time than previous elections. The article is written in a biased way in that Emma Roller does not like the election to be extensive. The main rhetorical tools in this article are logical appeal, rhetorical questions and analogy. A very effective and common tool that she uses is logical appeal, and she uses it greatly in her advantage. In the very first paragraph Roller begins by saying that “this election has been going on since Hannibal’s elephants crossed the alps” (Roller). She also uses evidence saying that …show more content…
Here it shows that she has done her research and discovered how long the election has been going on, and the reasoning behind this being so long is that the starting line was moved up. The reasoning it moved up is because voters usually don’t start paying attention to the presidential campaign until after Labor Day (Roller). Here she also uses evidence to show the reader how early the election truly started and why it seems never-ending. If we keep allowing the election to start whenever it wants there will never truly be a day. She then uses a reference to Pew Research Center that half of our population thinks that the election season is too long. If half of the population thinks the election is too long they may lose interest by the time voting actually starts, which could then affect the amount of people that actually vote. She uses a quote made by