Please Do Now:
- Browse through the following data:
- http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/state/#FL
- http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/county/#FLP00map
- http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=FLP00p1
- http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=USP00p1
- http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/main.results/#H
- http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#FLI01
- http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#FLI01p1
- List 10 statistics that you think should be included in our election coverage. Make sure to include statistics from the Presidential and House races as well as the Ballot Initiative. Also make sure you are covering the local angle and the youth angle as well as the national angle.
Today, students will:
- Workshop election coverage planner.
- Finalize dummy (especially opinion page)
- Review homework
Tonight’s homework is:
- Section editors: break up the features articles and fill out peer editing forms for each one. This is super-important and will be graded. I am counting on you. Please see these posts for style guides: http://weissjournalism1.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/feature-leads/ ; http://weissjournalism1.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/happy-friday/
I think that we should include
1: Florida’s electoral votes for president
2. Winners for house representatives
3. important amendment results (ban on gay marriage, etc.)
4. stats on polls by age
5.stats on exit polls by gender
6. stats on exit polls by race
7. Which states did Obama gain in electoral votes.
8. stats on what areas of florida voted to ban gay marriage
9.stats of who won for senate
10. how they congress and presidency is completely run by democrats!! (senate has 56 democrats, 40 republicans; house of rep. has 253 democrats and 172 republicans; and obama won because of 349 electoral votes as opposed to 163 for McCain)
1-Obama 51%-McCain 49%
2-All outcomes of South Florida House elections
3-Florida Amendment 2: Ban on Gay Marriage 62%-38%
4-Obama won Miami Dade 58%-42%
5-Obama won Broward 68%-32%
6-Florida ages 18-24 voted Obama 60%-39%
7-According to exit polls, Florida 18-24 voted Obama 66%-32%
8-U.S. House of Reps: Democrats 253-Republicans 172
9-According to exit polls, Florida 18-29 year olds voted No 53%-47% Yes on Amendment 2
Include: Most of the information from Article 3 because of the statistics it contains which are vital to the Florida decision process. Race, Sex, and ethnicity.
Also, the importance of Florida as a voting state and how Obama still managed to win Florida over even though most of the small counties in Florida voted McCain.
-Ban on Gay Marriage won with 62% approval.
-8 house seats are democratic two of which changed party from republican to democratic seat.
-According to exit polls 51% of males voted for Obama, compared to 47% for McCain and 52% of women voted for Obama as compared to 47% for McCain.
-2/3 of young voters voted for Obama, while 1/3 of them voted for McCain.
-voters over the age of 53 where the only group to have a majority of McCain voting.
-30-44 year olds were tied between the two candidates.
-52% of people polled decided to vote for McCain on election day while 55% of Obama voters decided a week before.