Ann Romney

someone on fire running down the fairway along with a lawnmower up in flames. One of the Superintendents had to chase him down to get him to roll and get the flames out. He went to the hospital for about two or so months, and was diagnosed with third degree burns and he had to have his leg amputated. After all of that happened we had to buy safer lawn equipment for the employees to use. About a week after the lawn incident, we had a very interesting visit. We had Mitt Romney come and check out our club! It was very cool to be able to meet a governor currently running. The security measures that were taken to keep him safe were about the craziest thing that I have ever seen.They had to get everyone out of the building and check anyone and everything for weapons that might injure or kill Romney. I also met Dennis Haysbert, the guy that does the Allstates commercials. Dennis was going to join the club, but he had resigned. I also met the governor of california, Jerry Brown. About three to four months after I met Mitt Romney, I was challenged with something I never saw coming. I woke up on my regular schedule, got ready for work, made sure my kids were getting ready for school and left. When I got to work I started doing my normal thing, cleaning tables, serving breakfast, and all that fun stuff. Then about noon I was called into the boss's office. I walked to his office and knocked on the door, and I was invited into his room. He told me to take a seat because we needed to…

Social Media is Helping Presidential Candidates Social media has grown exponentially during the last years. Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks are now the main source of where people get their news. Politicians take advantage of the new technology and use it in their favor for campaigning. In the 2012 election between Obama and Mitt Romney, Obama had a lead in digital activity. According to Pew Research Center, “Obama campaign published 614 posts during the two weeks examined…

politicians we would doubt their ability to be what the people want them to be. Now that we have seen both sides trying to persuade us why don’t we try to get to the bottom of this debate? It is true that some politicians that are not directly involved in politics can do well in the polls. George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain were all was appealing because they were not direct politicians they were not Washington insiders or Washington mavericks. (Rove, Susteren 136-138) But by this…

awakens to this type of news due to the availability of the social media and different viewpoints are created between age groups. Nancy Benac and Connie Cass demonstrated “Young voters in the state, two-thirds of whom backed Obama, also were more often the target of Obama 's campaign than Romney 's: 35 percent said they were contacted by Obama, 11 percent by Romney. Among senior citizens, two-thirds of whom voted Republican, 33 percent were contacted by Obama, 34 percent by Romney.” (Benac,…

Throughout every political campaign ad, the ulterior motive has always been consistent: to coax the audience to vote for the nominee. There is a stark contrast as to how these campaign leaders have gone about in reflecting their core principles as well as how they stigmatize their competitors. In the 2012 Presidential election, between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the advertisements reflected the candidate’s goals and their prior experience in relation to these goals. However, back in the 1960s…

Moody’s Investment Services.” This is an incredible amount to spend and that is just going to increase each election cycle. In order to get elected, it is not about the politician him or herself, but rather the size of the bank account. Commenter Chris Palko will suggest that one of the biggest reasons for the increase of money spent on campaigns is for name recognition. It makes sense, but implies that Americans are dumb and illiterate to politics. The focus is not on the impact the politician…

were made legal in 2010. It was reported that independent conservative candidates were supported with over $700 million, 70% of what was spent in the election. Along with that huge sum of money, there was no outcome in form of popularity from their candidates. Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate, was backed by various super PACs and 501 (c) 4s, which totaled spending of $260 million more than his rival Democratic candidate, Barack Obama (Blumenthal, 2013). In the end, we all know how that…

propagandas. News, TV, the Internet are different sources available to get information. These sources for communication can be biased and frame issues differently, by highlighting certain information and hiding other issues. Also, they can talk more about a specific political candidate, and about the campaign they support. For example, during Barack Obama’s campaign. They published an ad attacking Mitt Romney over the issue of taxes. The ad was named, “Stretch.” This ad also stated, “Mitt…

His first attack being Joni Lenz, whom he attacked in her shared apartment. Lenz lived, but his future victims would not be so fortunate. Linda Ann Healy would be his first full fledged murder while he was at the young age of 27. Bundy was proved to have killed 36 women, but is suspected of more. His spree ran through several states, including Washington,Colorado, Oregon, Utah, and ending in Florida. He was an organized lust killer who targeted young brown haired women. As described in a paper…

The death of 28 innocent people, 13-20 year old teenage boys to be exact,-- all of them raped, tortured, and strangled to death-- were all conducted by the person: The Candyman. Oh the irony of a child’s favorite treat being the nickname of a serial killer; what an oxymoron. Dean Arnold Corll, The Candyman, was able to obtain these victims to commit these crimes by the aid of David Brooks and Wayne Henley. There were many factors that led to the cause of Corll’s fascination of killing teenagers,…