Up, Simba

Sorry for the late posting.

While I was reading Up Simba (better late than never) I was, like I said in class, bored. The author exhausted every detail of his following McCain's campaign trail. The only that kept me reading was my own curiosity of WHY the author was hanging on to every detail in his narrative.

So there's this account of what he experienced during his following. How he saw the people around him, how they interacted with each other. The chemistry of the campaign trail in it's purest form. How can anyone argue with him? He's just telling it like it is, right? Dubiatio- make them think you don't have any tricks.

Young people is the target audience, and young people don't care. They will all probably flip through this edition of Rolling Stone looking for pictures of Steven Tyler and Snoop Dogg and articles about Courtney Love's latest overdose. These people aren't going to care about the people that follow John McCain around the primary campaign trail. Maybe that's the point he's trying to make- young people don't care, and that's exactly what their strategy is. Make it uninteresting and appalling to the young population and they will keep with the status quo- don't vote, don't care. Really? Who cares what is in McCain's iPod?