Second Post - Findings

The findings of our research affirmed our hypotheses that there were discrepancies in the ways in which minorities were being treated in their runs for candidacy. This not only effects the outcomes of the races but how this country treats its own candidates in terms of equality and fairness. Our findings confirmed that belief that these condidates were treated differently and expanded on that, only to demonstrate that the situation was worse than we thought. The two events with the most coverage and analysis was Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin's run for whitehouse in which there was a plethora of twisting and spinning by the media. This surprised the researchers and also made us ask ourselves what a run for office should really be about, if not race and gender.

First post

My team, JBAT, and I have been conducting research which deals with the question of how minority candidates are portrayed in the media. This is important because it tells us about the biases that the audience encounters as a result of the media's inclinations to depict candidates of certain races and genders in certain ways. We can also see the effect that the media may or mat not have on the outcomes of elections in minority candidates cases and now more than ever, more minority candidates are running for different positions of office. This question will be answered through researching different times in history in which this has occurred (from the 1990's on) and the media's favorability or unfavorability of these candidates will be evaluated here to forth. Please enjoy the research and please expand upon it. Our results intrigued and excited. This is where the research occured:

And here is a video clip showing just some of what we were looking at to tell us more about our research: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vALfxFU6QY

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