How to get more votes

I've just watched the videos Sarah posted on our bloggingenglish-blog and I have to say that they are sooo embarassing! I mean why do they even want to do things the American way if they are not even able to do so? These videos are simply ridiculous. Their lyrics don't even make sense (especially the one from Berlusconi). Which dream are they talking about? That is so weird.

I was supposed to write about my observations on the elections and I noticed that now, that the platforms are known to everyone (who's interested) and the statements are clear, the candidates start to argue on a more personal level.

For example, there was this story about Obama's mentor and pastor who made racist remarks (so it had been understood by some Americans) concerning the "white and rich America" and, now, for the first time Hillary Clinton commented on this story. She said that man would never had been her pastor, if she had known about his ideas and speeches, unlike Obama. So she uses the bad press Obama had during the last weeks and tries to put herself in a better position.

In Italy it is quite the same: Berlusconi and Veltroni were supposed to have a battle on two television channels. The first channel invited Veltroni but Berlusconi didn't want to show up because the show is rather left-wing oriented and then it was Veltroni who did not want to participate in the battle on Porta a Porta.
It seems like they all have run out of proper ideas in order to convince the voters and so they start playing games.