Monitoring the Election

Instructions: In the coming weeks, you will continue to follow the events surrounding the 2016 election.
Each week you will consider two to three news sourceseach from a different media outletand write a
short two-or-three sentence update in Part I below. A news source might be an article, a news video or audio
clip, or a photo slideshow. Make sure that the sources you explore are current, that is, created within the
previous seven days. After your second update, answer the questions listed in Part II.

Part I: Monitoring the

Situation Week:
Week: 1

Date: MONDAY 12TH TO SUNDAY 18TH

Sources: http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-debate-schedule/2016-presidential-debateschedule/
Clinton and Trump news before their first presidential debate:
http://edition.cnn.com/election
Update: The road to the debates has been a rough one. From one side Hillary getting sick of pneumonia and
the controversy that emerged of leaked mails she had on her personal account and erased apparently. Trumps
campaign hadnt been any different his past doesnt cease to haunt him from avoiding taxes, racism, labor
abuse all the way to gender discrimination. All this problems keep knocking on the candidate`s door.
Week: 2
Date: MONDAY 19TH TO SUNDAY 25TH
Sources:
VIDEO TO THE DEBATE: http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016/09/full-video-watch-the-trumpclinton-debate-from-sept-26/
Written debate and comments from reporters.
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/26/495115346/fact-check-first-presidential-debate
DEBATE ANALYSIS FROM CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/26/politics/presidential-debate-hillarypersonal fight between both candidates. But in the end it was a good debate.

Week: 3
Date: MONDAY 26TH TO SUNDAY 2ND
Sources:

VIDEO OF THE DEBATE: http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016/10/full-video-watch-penceand-kaine-in-the-vp-debate/

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37558787
Update: Vice-presidential arrived. It was quite similar in terms of how the moderator lost the control of the
debate through the night. Still it was clear both opponents behave in more mature way the candidates did.
Still is hard to defend the most non transparent candidates in the US. People critics were really shocking, they
a called a debate, that had a better preparation from the opponents, boring this show the lack of interest in
politics.
Update: During this week both candidates got the opportunity to faceoff each other at the first presidential
debate. It started fine both talking about their ideas on how to improve the situation the country is. Very
important subjects were treated just like economics, but it didnt take to long for the debate to become in a

Week: 4
Date: MONDAY 3RD TO SUNDAY 9TH
Video and written debate:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/transcript-second-debate.html?_r=0
Comments from corresponders:
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/10/factchecking-the-second-presidential-debate/
Update:
On the second presidential debate, was done in a town hall mode. WikiLeaks and mass media began to
release more scandals on each candidate prior to the debate. Trump and Clinton as this scandals came on each
other they decided to avoid facing them and redirecting their strategy to attack each other using these
problems as weapons. The fight took most of the time, for this reason neither of the candidate talked much of
actual policies. The few points they actually talked about werent 100% proven facts.

Week: 5
Date: MONDAY 10TH TO SUNDAY 16TH
Sources: VIDEO OF THE DEBATE: http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016/10/full-video-thethird-final-trump-clinton-presidential-debate/
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/presidential-debate-takeaways/
Closing with debates, the final presidential debate was the one. When comparing the other debates this was
the only one the was closer to be an actual debate. The scandals of both candidates were again mention but in
way less times. Trump fell apart during the debate he refused to accept the election outcome. It was clear that
he blew his last chance to improve his image in the eyes of the Americans.

Part II: Analyzing the

Situation
1. What major developments have occurred in the past month?
There was not really a major development that really helps the audience to choose one candidate. Due that
they have just focused on criticizing each other by scandals that will not really help the country, instead of
structuring well their ideas. Their scandals: Trumps video when he mistreats a woman and its problem due
to when he avoided taxes. While Clinton scandal was that she received some mysterious emails that were
interpreted as carrying out corruption acts.
2. What have been the responses of different people and groups in the United States, such as the U.S. Congress,
the Republican or Democratic Party, people from other political parties, important politicians, the media, or
the public?
Republicans have been taking away endorsements from Trump, the people have been pretty radical with their
opinions, either they support them and like his ideas, or hate him and have bad thoughts about him.
Democrat Politicians have been giving Hillary lots of support, she has committed huge mistakes but they
have not been mentioned whatsoever.

3.

Which news sources did you find most useful in researching this topic? Which were the least useful?
The ones which include American peoples opinions because that help us to give us more an idea of what
they think being that they are living the situations that the candidates are making proposals. And also
because they speak freely and with full honesty. Then we compare those public opinions with reporters
opinions that are showed on the news (reliable news), and then also with statistics.

4. The media plays a powerful role in creating messages about each candidate. Choose one media source that
you discussed in Part I and answer the following questions.
Who was the author of the source?
The Washington Post
a. What format is used to present the source?
Articles that show what is going on with their presidential campaign, as well as opinions and other
interesting facts.
b. What points of views are included in this source? Are any points of view left out?
They remark both the negative and positive points from each candidate, they do not give personal
opinions.
c. What is the overall message of the source?

It shows us that when talking about debates, Hillary is the best speaker, while Trump has lots of failing
points and bad habits.
d. Do you agree with the sources message? Why or why not?
I agree, the articles describe what is happening and manages to keep their posts interesting and true,
without harming third people.
5. What do you think the outcome of the election will be? How do you think people in the United States and
members of the government will respond?
We really believe that the result will be completely different from statistics, there are a lot of people that is
just keeping their choice secretly. In my opinion I like to think that maybe at the last second the winner
could be one of the independents candidates (Stein or Johnson) because their ideas are more concise. And
well honestly both Trump and Clinton are not reliable candidates. Also it seems a lot that Trump is like a
candidate bait, that doesnt try to win reputation or people in order to make free way to Clinton by his
immaturity. It was so much hate to Donald that became a trending, everyone making jokes about him as
the bad candidate and so on. So yes, Clinton may will win the election thanks to her good reputation
having on her side lots of famous people including Latinos ones that are bait too to many people that is
ignorant because they are just following tv, mass media and not reliable news shows. We just hope that a
surprise will outcome from this election, where people will think smartly and will not choose a trending
candidate.