2008 Elections

When watching videos on the political channels I felt they looked like ads and were more polished then that of user generated content. I looked at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4V8blS0074 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpshcQQJxM as user generated ads/support for candidates. The quality of the video just was not as good. I watched about half of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpsdKUQ1nKA but could no longer stand the voice and decided to watch other clips. The first two links were more raw and not professional at all. But I feel I could relate to these people because I know for certain, or so I think that they were not paid to say anything. The last link was a better quality video but it was long and the man had a voice that was slowly beginning to put me to sleep. Though I thought the title of the video was interesting. I will have to finish watching it when I am less tired to see what it really means. I think when we watch a video supporting a candidate created by an average person with not the best equipment or lighting we get the feel that this is real, this is not some paid advertisement trying to sway us. However it would be a rather unique technique to pay people to record videos, post them on youtube under their user name, and to have them not be in great quality to get their ideas out there. It may be a little far fetched now but will probably occur in the future.