Ellen Goodman, author of the editorial How Will the Party Heal, goes into depth about the election of 2008 between Obama and Clinton. Goodman takes the views of both the democratic and republican sides on both of the candidates hoping to win the election of office. Goodman brings light to the people’s choices and reasons for the upcoming president. By bringing real life problems to the front Goodman balances the two to make them equal as best as could be to get down to the true issues at hand such as race, age, and gender. Goodman has a style that sets her apart and that’s the way she focusses on the issues that everyday Americans are focused on for the time given. As well she also gives her own opinion and gives the questions that everyone is asking themselves while reading her columns. This is what sets her apart from all others because she puts her own imputes into her articles as if she is also a reader who would look upon them and read what she has written. How she isn’t just the one writing but how she instead is also taking apart in the event as everyone else. It allows the reader to see that Goodman is like everyone else how she is just another everyday American who faces the same struggles and events as the rest of us. Goodman reaches into her readers and makes them see that the only way to change the way the world works is if people like you and I make a change and do something about it. She put the emotion of realization in her piece to affect the reader by showing them that there is more than what meets the eye with everything that is taking place in the world in which we live in. How not everyone has the same opinion as you do. That no matter how much something seems to be true there are also lies that mend everything together to hide the true beliefs of a person. Goodman has a way with showing the true colors of others that can be blinded from the rest of us and because of that I agree with Goodman on how she belie