Presidential Election

Political Choices
Kyle wrote a blog about the recent presidential election, Obama vs. McCain. He has been following the election since the primaries. Kyle has held preferences for who he wanted to win the election throughout the primaries. He was naturally more attracted to the Democratic primary, because it was a close race. He initially wanted Hillary Clinton to win. Why? I can only speculate. I am rather objective and try to impart that on him, so I don't give him many indications to my preferences. His preference for Hillary might have something to do with her being a woman and his wanting to see an American female president. He knows the Philippines has a female president and asked why America has not had one. He is also familiar with the Clinton name, from President Bill Clinton. Once, Hillary lost he switched allegiance to Obama. Why? Again, I am not sure. It could be the familiarity with him from the primary. It could be that he identified with him better. Maybe because of his age or his mixed heritage. I am not sure, but do know that he never really said much about McCain and never chose him when playing video games on miniclip.com (see below). Hillary or Barrack were his choices.

Guiding Kyle's Writing
In his blog, Kyle mentioned that he would help the environment if he were president. This is something he came up with on his own and must be a result of the push for environmental issues at his school and in the U.A.E. as a whole. I guided him in writing his blog by asking him 3 very general questions:

1. What happened?
2. What is his job?
3. What do you think?

I also gave him a list of useful words.

1. election
2. vote
3. president
4. Barrack Obama
5. John McCain
6. African-American
7. Asian-American

He chose not to use all of the words. I added the term Asian-American, because he had mentioned that he could be the first Asian-American president. He chose not to write about that.

Election Video Games
He has played a few election-based games on Miniclip.com, which he found enjoyable and educational. The game linked below, McCain vs. Obama, was perhaps the most educational of the bunch. It allows you to choose a candidate and make moves with the purpose of acquiring states. It allowed him to see that the election is a strategic game and to better understand Americas electoral college. Beware, other games on the site are more confrontational.

McCain Vs Obama Risk it all and use superior tactics to win the Presidential Election

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