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Congressional Elections Struggles

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Congressional Elections Although elections are suppose to provide citizens with a way to shape policymaking by changing who the policymakers are citizens can change what policies are made, the citizens still have little impact. Elections do not serve as a vehicle for citizens to change policy. The way that congress is set up makes it extremely difficult to create change in congress. Typically miniorties groups are in groups that need to most help and have the most problems, and it’s difficult for their problems to get solved if they don’t have members of congress of their ethnic group that can relate to their problems and understand what they’re going through more than a member of congress that has a different rationality. As my The Struggle

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