New York 's 30th Congressional District

Terri Bonoff, a mother of four, after a successful business career which lasted twenty years, left her career to tend to her children’s needs. While raising her children, Terri volunteered with her local community organizations. This involvement inspired Terri to try her hand at politics. She was elected in 2005 and has been reelected several times. A major focus of Terri’s platform is education. Also, Terri plans to use her business acumen to increase efficiency in the local economy. Finally, Terri wants to reach across the aisle to exchange ideas and develop partnerships with the Republican party in order to create the legislation that will enable the United States to overcome its economic and ideological crises.

Roosevelt stated, “Our greatest primary task it to put people to work.” Just seventeen days later Roosevelt sent to Congress, “a request for legislation aimed at unemployment relief.” The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was formed. It’s purpose; “to employ a quarter of a million men on forestry, flood control, and beautification projects.” Neil Maher examines the difficulties the CCC experienced in providing the unemployment relief America needed. On April 17, 1933, the beautification and protection program began in George Washington National Forest in Laray, Virginia, just a few short miles from New York City. It was not long there after, however, that the local citizens of the region began to realize that the jobs the CCC brought to the area were not for them. What many in this region of the country did not realize, however, was the complexity of this situation. Robert Higgs, addresses just this issue in his article, FDR: Opportunistic Architect of Big Government. He contends that the establishment of the CCC was nothing more than a “highly successful vote-buying scheme.” and that “Congress could appropriate unprecedented sums of money and channel them into the hands of recipients who would redone by buying political support to their benefactors.” What Higgs fails to reveal, however, is the political power that Southern Democrats wielded in this situation. In Robert Westbrook’s article, Tragic Deal, he addresses this condition in great detail. Westbrook points out that “throughout this period, power in Congress rested to a considerable degree in the hands of Southern Democrats” and “an alliance with Southern racists was essential to New Deal success.” For these Southern Democrats, conditions of the employment policies of the New Deal needed to exclude a certain element of the population, such as “agricultural and domestic workers (two-thirds of black

Kyrsten Sinema has been leading a life unlike many others’; going from a middle-class early childhood, to homelessness, to co-valedictorian, to practicing lawyer with a PhD, and to “Prada Socialist” in Congress. Sinema was born to an upper middle-class family in 1976. She and her two siblings were raised by both their parents in a five-bedroom house in Tucson, AZ. Her father, Dan Sinema Sr., was a lawyer and her mother, Marilyn, was a stay-at-home mom. Her father lost his job during the 1980s recession since clients were complaining about him, a Real Estate claim gone badly, and IRS debts. This was when the family went from a upper-middle-class status into debts and foreclosure.

He hopes that they will somehow find common ground, despite their extreme differences on most issues of policy. Yet he fails to emphasize how dependent this revolt, so celebrated by Chris Hedges, will be on the ability of these groups to respond to the anger and despair of struggling families and workers in productive ways. The $15 minimum wage campaign coming out of Seattle is showing the way for the Occupiers, even as Obama has abandoned them in favor of the corporate-driven Fast Track. But the Tea Party has only delivered for the Koch brothers and Wall Street. Even though the Tea Party has drawn on popular anger at Wall Street and corporations, their politicians have been easily bought off by those same money

(Kathy 's formal education is in journalism, a field that produces policy analysts both inside and outside of government. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master of science degree in agricultural economics from Virginia Tech. In the 1980s, Kathy was a participant in and board member of Pennsylvania Rural Leadership (RULE), a Kellogg-funded leadership development program designed to foster civic understanding and involvement)

Jack Flynt was a Southern Conservative Democrat who believed in a “personal-to-person” representational strategy, in other words he viewed himself as a representative of the people. Flynt preferred working with the people rather than discussing the policies which hurt his chances for reelection in 1974 and 1976. The closeness of Jack Flynt’s 1974 and 1976 reelection contests is due to his new district and the failure of his person-to-person strategy. The new district was “pushed northward into the near suburbs of Atlanta and up to the city line” (Fenno, 2000, 51). In this redistricting Flynt would be “picking up 120,000 unwanted and unfamiliar suburbanites on the southern rim of Atlanta’s own Fulton County, along with 30,000 more in suburban Doulgas County” (Fenno, 2000, 52). The new district “brought former Democrats as well as people moving from the cities to the suburbs which would institutionalize Republicanism in Georgia” (Fenno, 2000, 62).

The United States Congress appropriated electoral power to Florida’s 26th Congressional District as of January 2013 as a response to the 2010 Census. The first winner of the electoral district, Joe Garcia (Democrat), was appointed the 113th Congressman on January 2, 2013. Following his two-year term in office, Carlos Curbelo (Republican), now holds the position as the 114th Congressman for the 26th District.

The newly president elect, Donald Trump, has lead his campaign with a great emphasis on the campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again.” This phrase is used to represent a time much like what Putnam describes of his hometown of Port Clinton, Ohio. In the 1950s, Putnam’s hometown was the “embodiment of the American Dream,” a place in which all classes of people were able to live and grow together. In order to alleviate financial pressure from the lower classes, Trump states "In order to achieve the American dream, let people keep more money in their pockets and increase after-tax wages." Trump’s tax plan will exempt single adults whose income is equivalent $25,000 a year, or married adults who jointly earn less than $50,000 a year from paying income taxes. This plan does show favor to the individuals who reside in this tax bracket,

Incumbent Representative Eliot L. Engel balances the demographic needs of New York’s 16th Congressional District as well as the needs of his Democratic Party. He has served in the 16th Congressional district since January 3rd, 2013 and is next up for reelection in 2018. He was previously the representative for New York’s 19th Congressional District as a Democrat from 1989 to 1992, and was the representative for New York’s 17th Congressional District as a Democrat from 1993 to 2012. Engel is a fair reflection of the district, as he is a white, well-educated, American man. Nevertheless, the 16th Congressional District is relatively diverse, and has a slightly larger female to male ratio.

A congressional district is an electoral division of a state, electing and entitled to send one member to the United State House of Representatives. Districting is the initial set district, whereas redistricting is the process of drawing district boundaries after the decennial census and new population changes. Redistricting is a political process that affects the fortunes of incumbent House members, state legislators,

Nevada's 4th congressional District is a new district that was created as a result of the 2010 Census, it is located in the central portion of Nevada and includes most of northern Clark County, part of Lyon County, and all of Esmeralda, Lincoln, Mineral, Nye and White Pine counties. Even though the district appears rural, more than four-fifths of the district's population lives in Clark County. The median household income is around $52,378 and the mean household income is around $65,176, with the poverty rate being around 13%. “census”. Every two years, the House of Representatives chooses one representative also called congressmen/congresswomen, from each congressional district, who will then be elected to a two-year term and serve the people

With 2017 quickly coming to an end, the congressional and governor races are heating up. One race that is flying under the radar is the New Jersey 5th congressional district election. Democratic incumbent Josh Gottheimer is bracing up for what should be a hotly contested seat. As a New Jersey native, I have a keen sense of the type of people that Gottheimer needs to reach out to. The New Jersey 7th district, where I am from, is not much different than that of the 5th. Both are wealthy areas that tend to vote Republican. The Democratic Party has had a setback, especially with the 2016 presidential election, but Gottheimer is one bright spot that they cannot afford to lose. In order to retain his seat, which I believe he will, Josh

Although Burr was never able to reach 50% in the polls, he exceeded that threshold on Election Day and defeated Ross by almost 6%. In order to analyze the political climate further, I will be comparing the exit polls for both Trump vs. Clinton and Burr vs Ross. This will help explain why Ross was entering the Senate race with a disadvantage despite media pundits arguing that higher turnout in presidential election years should benefit Ross. Although Five Thirty Eight gave Clinton the slight edge to defeat Trump in North Carolina, Trump’s was able to carry the state with a modest performance. Although Real Clear Politics had Burr winning by an average of 2%, that was certainly below the 5.7% final result. In a three way race between Trump, Clinton, and Johnson, Trump was predicted to win North Carolina by about 1%. The actual results, however, showed Trump winning by about 4%. Although this paper is focusing on the Senate race, it’s certainly important to note the impact that a presidential candidate can have on the electoral map, particularly

In the congressional election coming this November, the Democratic and Republican candidates will be fiercely campaigning for the Fourth District’s seat in the House of Representatives. In the analysis of the electoral race, we will closely examine various aspects of the district including demographics, income and wealth, religious preference, important federal issues in the area, partisanship, and previous voting patterns. New York’s 4th District is located on the eastern portion of the state, near Long Island. It includes the traditionally republican area of Garden City and the towns around it, making the district one out of six congressional districts in New York whose lines fall completely within a single county. Nassau County is famous for containing the “Gold Coast,” the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s world-renowned book, The Great Gatsby (Nassaulandtrust.org). The elections in the fourth district of New York have favored the Democratic Party as of late, but the race is closer than it has been for years; the competitive air surrounding the upcoming election is the result of the district’s many redevelopment projects, the well-received behavior of Republican representatives in local government, the high concentration of wealth in the area, and the 2010 census redistricting and removal of strongly democratic minority precincts (Michael Barone and Chuck McCutcheon 2013).

This election, many people see a solution to this problem through Donald Trump’s political campaign on a platform of “Make America Great Again”. Trump is running, creating new jobs and improving the economy, which appeals to many people who are in the lower and middle classes who have been left behind by economic inequality. Trump’s largest base of support comes from white Americans who do not have a high school degree. This group usually has a very small income, if any at all, because they are less educated. In contrast, those with a college degree have a much easier experience finding work out of college. This means that those without a high school diploma are looking for economic change in order to gain an advantage and proceed with their economic pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Other groups with large support for Trump are people with mobile homes and “old economy jobs” which are, similarly, groups with lower incomes. Trump appeals to these groups such as the “old economy jobs” because they are losing their jobs as new technology emerges. As “old economy jobs” decline, the demand for new jobs increase; the creation of which Donald Trump endorses. Donald Trump is definitely not a traditional conservative, but he has the ability to attract these groups with his platform through his populist appeal. Thus, a person who is lower in the economic gap would lean towards a candidate such as