MCS 370 Millennial Makeover

After watching some of the videos on youtube about the 2008 election and the presidential candidates it seems like the videos seem more like ads to me rather than regular videos.  It looks like they are trying to sell themselves or their candidates rather than giving the viewer a good reason to vote for them or just listen to their arguments.  I also think that the ads look mostly polished, they do not look like amateur videos but they could be a little more polished.  I found one user generated post that I looked at, and thought that the regular ads were more convincing than the user generated ads.  I think that the user generated ads were cheesy and just had the person opinion rather than good facts that would swing a persons opinion one way or the other.  I also looked at the older campaign ads on YouTube, and i think that they are not the best they can be but they are a little more convincing to me than the newer ones.  The reason i think that is because the older videos did not have so many topics to deal with and they did not seem like actual advertisements.  The newer ads seem like they are trying to sell you something and make you almost buy their candidate and i think that they are sending out the wrong message to the United States.