Jaylen Fryberg washington shooter

Last Friday there was a shooting in Washington at  Marysville-Pilchuck High School.  The shooter was 15 year old Jaylen Fryberg.  Jaylen was just nominated for homecoming prince at his school a couple weeks earlier and was a football player.  There were five students shot by jaylen before he shot and killed himself in the schools cafeteria.  Jaylen texted the five kids and told them to come in the cafeteria, when they entered he shot them all.  One was announced dead at the scene and the four are still in critical condition. 
              This shows you that no matter how popular someone is or how talented they are.  They still have problems on the inside.

Why do candidates spend so much money?

The amount of money that all candidates spend on their elections is a tremendous amount!  It hasn't always been such a large of money though, back in 2004 during the presidential elections only about 1.9 billion dollars was spent.  Now a days that is about a third of what these politicians and every other high authority person spends on their elections.  Nearly six billion dollars has been spent on the midterm elections this year. Their is absolutely no need for that much money being spent, there are other ways to get your name out to the public without spending that much money.  It has obviously been done considering that there has never been that much money spent in past elections.

Election Money

The 2014 midterm elections are said to be the most expensive election in history.  Back in 2004 during the presidential elections only about $1.9 billion dollars was spent.  The question is where do these guys get billions and billions of dollars from to pay for their races.  Both the democrats and
Republicans raise the money from private donations that are sent to them. 

Midterm is coming up!!

The Midterm election will take place next Tuesday on November 4th.  At this point in the election, Democrats control the U.S. Senate while Republicans are the majority in the U.S. House.  Republicans still lead the race with more safe red states.  With Alabama, Tennessee, and Nebraska joining the safe states.

2014 election predictions: Republican vs. democrates

The 2014 midterm elections is going to be a close one. 

The next senate is said to be most likely run by republicans.  There are safe republican states that will most likely stay as red states. 


Safe republican states:
-Texas
-Oklahoma
-South Carolina

Safe Democratic Sates:
-Hawaii

Differences between Democrats and Republicans

Democrats

-A democrat believes in a large government
-It is the governments responsibility to take care of all individuals
-Mostly liberal
-higher taxes
-believes everybody is entitled to healthcare
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Republicans
-Mostly conservative
-lower taxes
-the people say when taxes need to be higher or lower
-responsibility to the people
-government stays out of the peoples business
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These two kinds of government are very different and have their different views towards different subjects and topics