Final Paper Assignment : Presidential Election

Many people blame Trump for there not being many republican voters this year. Chris Cillizza begs to differ, his article “Republicans Have a Massive Electoral Map Problem That Has Nothing To Do With Trump.” explains exactly why Donald isn’t an issue. There can also been an argument that Trump isn’t suitable president. He speaks his mind and his honest about what he says. That is a perfect reason for him to be elected and that is why some people either love him or hate him.

It is hard to believe that it will be a year since the Bush vs. Gore campaign was in it’s

This recent election that took place on November 8, 2016 included candidate Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Towards the beginning of the election the results seemed that Hillary would win and was taking

The most recent presidential election has been one of the most dividing in the history of America. While President Trump won the electoral vote, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, creating a divide in workplaces, schools, and many other public places. The greatest challenges that the President will need to address first are the unity of Americans for the acceptance of all people and the education of young people, as they are the future of our nation.

Since I am not a citizen of United States, I have never voted before, I am not registered to vote, I did not vote in the primaries in March. I do not plan to vote in the general election this November because I do not have the right to vote in U.S.; however, some of my friends plan to vote in the general election. People around me are somehow divided between the Democrat Hillary Clinton and the Republican Donald Trump. If I could vote I would vote for the Democrat Hillary Clinton because she supports gun control, she wants to fight against systemic racism in education & employment, she inspires American women to fight for their rights, and because she is really qualified, she has served as secretary of state, senator

Last year’s circumstance was the first of its kind in over a century. There have been many close elections, but none have resulted in the popular candidate losing to his opponent. The Electoral College cast the final vote in that election. The people who went out to the polls in November, many of whom believing that they were indeed voting for

The 2014 midterm voter turnout was considerably low owing to a number of reasons. One possible reason attributed to the low voter turnout is disillusionment with the leading party. Data collected from exit polls indicated that about 54 percent of citizens were opposed to President Barack Obama performance as the president(Ching, 2014). Further, 65% of them viewed the country as headed towards the wrong direction. Most voters were dissatisfied with the Republicans leaders and lacked confidence in the government to do

Jay Van Bavel’s 2016 article addresses an important and relevant issue: voters’ deeply divided perceptions of presidential candidates. According to Bavel, approximately 70 million viewers tuned in to watch the final presidential debate on October 19, 2016. In theory, one would be valid in assuming that while processing such an event, everyone should be experiencing the same reality—all are watching the same debate, hearing the same words said by the same people. Strangely, however, this is not the case: in reality, Republicans and Democrats concluded the debates with drastically separate conclusions on the candidates. According to a CNN poll referenced to within Bavel’s article, Hillary Clinton won the first debate, with 67% compared to Donald Trump’s 27%. However, a further examination of these statistics reveals an obvious divergence between the democratic and republican parties. According to democrats, Clinton won (89% to 5%); according to republicans, Trump won (54% to 28%). Why is there such a great divide when both parties were presented with the exact same information? People do not see the world objectively—without the influence of personal biases. Instead, people reinforce the goals and values of the partisan group they identify with, allowing the party’s views to color their perceptions of identical information (Bavel).

The 2016 presidential election seemed to be a particularly hectic election. On November 8,2016, I was checking my Facebook newsfeed. As I scrolled through my newsfeed, I see a lot of posts related to the election. People would post opinions on each of the presidential candidates as well as which their predictions of which candidate will win. The newspaper websites provided frequent updates throughout the day to inform people about the progress of the election. That night, I watched tentatively as the ballots were being counted, and I saw people’s comments of shock and disbelief when Trump managed to get ahead of Hillary in terms of electoral college votes.

When speaking about Democrats, he says, “as much as they love Sanders, they loathe Donald Trump more. It seems more evident each day that Republicans have lost their collective reason and are beginning to accept the notion that Trump will be their nominee” (Milbank). Many people view Donald Trump as being out of his mind and a threat to the country if he were elected. Even if he has consistently been in the top two candidates of the Republican Party for polls, he is greatly hated by many of his own party. It is nonsensical to argue that he would somehow have an edge over Sanders in a main election when he inspires such rage in a large amount of the population. If Trump won the nomination, it is possible that some Republicans would not vote so as to avoid supporting him. The other top candidate of the Republican Party, Ted Cruz, is also viewed by many as being unelectable in a general election. He is a far right candidate who is unwilling to compromise and is not well liked even within the senate. Overall, there is no logical reason to believe that the top Republican candidates would do any better in a general election than

Overall, the 2016 voter turnout was lower than ever before. The United States is a country that has some of the lowest voter turnouts in history, and unlike Australia, the USA doesn't make voting mandatory. About 48 to 57% of citizens normally participate in the presidential election voting but in 2016 many American’s decided to opt out lowering the voter turnout to a mere 55% of the American population. When American’s didn't vote that decision most likely came due to the fact that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were both two of the most disliked presidential candidates in the past 30 years. We are also aware that presidential elections are more competitive in some states, and Republicans didn't seem to vote as much as people in swing

The political infrastructure of America has remained consistent with the ideology of a representative republic, essentially the masses choosing representatives who then decide whom they want as a leader of the fine country under the notion of said candidates ideologies, religion, and promises upon election. Every four years, America holds an election to determine the Commander in Chief, an honor of prestige and status. The duty of a President is to obey the best interests of the country, utilizing their power in order to handle the issues that plague the nation. Planetary issues such as gay marriage, immigration, and marijuana particularly, same-sex marriage, the construction of a wall near the southern border, and medical marijuana.This essay aims to display the arguments/stance that each presidential candidate has towards such issues, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and serves as an analysis of their determined stance.

Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump! This year’s election was a very hard decision for some and for others not. Being that Clinton is democratic and Trump is republican, my first decision was automatically to vote Clinton. Although, this year I decided not to take my choice in voting because, well I just felt that neither of the two really deserved to be in the White House.

This year we seen a huge battle coming for us and headed straight to the White House. In such battle, were our two political parties going neck and neck for the Presidency. In the end, Donald J. Trump won that spot. No one has any idea how this happens. People don’t care to look and research; People vote based on a societal judgement, not because they feel that their vote makes any sense or difference to our country. If you don’t vote people think differently of you, if you don’t vote for a certain candidate they question your values and beliefs. Anecdotally speaking.

Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America on November 8th, 2016, and now has been running our country for over a year. As Trump’s first year in office slowly began, his reputation seems to be creating different outside views of our nation and arguments started producing everywhere. After competing with Hillary Clinton for the presidential term in office, Trump defeated her along with her democratic supporters causing one of the most shocking elections in U.S. history. Using public media web pages, we are reviewing both sides of the argument regarding Trump’s election and we are going to decipher why each arguer supports their side, and why each side is reasonable for the benefit of our country.