Political Party Debates

While using a variety of different appeals, “The Second Presidential Debate” argues that integrity is the most important quality of a president, and this argument is shown throughout the debate through both the candidate's choice to undermine each other's character. Though it seems as if both candidates use illogical arguments to persuade the audience, in all reality they use many logical fallacies and appeals to help make their argument better, and their opponent’s seem weaker.

The vice presidential debate turned out to be more of tennis match of insults. Both side hit backhands at each other all night long. Instead of focusing on real issues, the candidates had a yelling match at each other all night. I believe this is the wrong way to have debates. All the time we have been in school, since kindergarten, we have been taught to raise our hands when we want to speak and be respectful to others. The vice presidents seem to have skipped all 12 years of schooling. No respect was shown towards anyone during the debate. Instead of Dekalb High School students doing Olweus, The vice presidents should take time and learn how to not bully one

Quite often, people are eager to proclaim whether they are a democrat or a republican, yet many of these people use these political terms because they have been told to, rather than actually resonating with the beliefs of said political party. Preferably, voters should research issues most important to them and figure out their own stances, then commit to the political party with the most similar viewpoint by examining the party’s platform from a reliable source. Political parties are voluntary, organized groups of people with similar political aims and opinions who work to influence public policy through their candidate running and hopefully being elected to public office. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 and is known for their support

After watching thirty minutes of both the Republican debate and the Democrat debate it is very evident the differences between the political parties. The Republican race is very different from the democratic debate because of the level of competition. After only a brief time in watching both races it is evident who the moderators feel are front runners in this year's election. The Republican debate was very competitive because of the larger amount of people running. Each candidate did not have enough time to fully debate topics because of there are just too many people up at the podium. Some of the Republican candidates make it priority to follows Reagan's rule of talking about the fellow candidates but, others such as Bush and Trump try

Presidential Debates! Those two words can either send an agonizing cringe down one 's spine or it can send nerve-wrecking excitement down one 's spine. Whichever way it may be taken, Presidential Debates are interweaved into America 's tapestry of tradition. It has always been to one of the most exciting events that take place every four years. Accompanied with Presidential Debates, precedes Presidential Candidate. We all know that there has to be at least two Presidential Candidates in order for Presidential Debates to exist.

The main goal of this article was to discover if the televised presidential debates increased the amount of knowledge of campaign issues amongst uneducated voters. One of the downfalls of this campaign overall, was that it seemed too artificial and staged to some of the voters. It was during this election, that many print media providers were called out for simply focusing on the “horse race” as opposed to the political issues at hand. In hope to contradict this claim, evidence was “found that more than 75 network TV stories mentioned each of the ‘big four’ economic issues of 1988—taxes, trade, unemployment, and the state of the economy.” (Drew & Weaver, 1991, pg. 28) The presidential Debates were also seen as evidence to contradict this claim

The great race that happens every four years in U.S. is getting close to the finish line, and the contestant are pulling all out to win the necessary votes to win. One of the central topics that is very likely to determine the presidential seat this year, is the topics that revolved around women. Women around the U.S. are keep their eyes peeled on the race as it is the second time in the history of the U.S. to have female candidate, and first time to have serious contending to win the whole race. As the race is narrowing to the finish line, it is clear that the most vocal candidates are Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Each of the candidate have their own views on the central topics of women’s right, Sanders and Clinton shares

It would only make sense that half of this class is on political parties and the other half would be about interest groups. They are both inherently different and fundamentally similar at the same time. Both work to sway the pendulum of public policy in the direction they believe in (Alexander, 2015). The main difference is that political parties attempt to gain political office, where interest groups are not in that business. Interest groups are in a sense a key part of a pluralistic society. They allow for everyday people to lobby and petition government. While it is true that we have interest groups in existence today, it has not always been that way. Up until the 1960’s, the power of politics was in the hands of the parties (Cigler, 2015). Many factors, such as television, a more educated electorate, etc, contributed to the creation of a power vacuum in the 1960’s. Interest groups swiftly and aggressively took the role that had formerly been that of the parties. As we have seen this power shift, so have we seen an explosion in the number of organized interests. In 1900, there were 200 registered groups in Washington D.C. Today there are 15,000. It is reasonable to be both intrigued and horrified by the concept of these groups. On one side, they are like anybody else who cares about the direction of the country. On the other, they are unelected, unrepresentative impactors of the system I must live in. While I am not trying to say they are a god send or evil, my point is

The presidential debates have changed throughout the years. From my perspective debates do matter because the candidates debate to get chosen to change the United States into a better place. Appearance shouldn't matter but what you say and how you act should. If there were no debate there might wouldnt be a president nor voter.

After watching the Vice Presidential Debate, I agree with Pence more than Kaine, to say

In today’s culture, there are several controversies that drive the forefront of social gatherings, private debate, and especially political races. Whether you know it or not, if you assimilate into society in anyway, you probably have an opinion on some issues in today’s culture. Some major topics in today’s news are abortion, gay marriage, and the legalization of marijuana. These issues have increasingly divided us as a society, and have also infiltrated into our political affiliation. The two major parties, Democrats and Republicans, have never been able to see eye to eye on theses issues as they deeply involve moral and negative culture impact.

In political campaigns, the viewpoints of the individual candidates are often reflective of the positions of their political parties. In the upcoming presidential election, there are issues which have the power to divide the nation. One of the most divisive issues at present is the question of gay marriage and whether or not the federal government should weigh in on what has thus far been a states' rights issue. Both on the state and national levels, the perspective of the people in the various political jurisdictions will determine the way in which they vote. If a party agrees with the population's view on an issue, the people will be more likely to vote with that party. The two major parties, the Republicans and Democrats, have officially been against gay marriage although a few have differed from the party's position. Less is known where some of the "third" parties, such as the Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Constitution Party, stand on the issue.

Once upon a time presidential debates were a platform that candidates would use to educate and inform constituents on the issues they want to solve and the policies they want to make reality. Formerly a television event that many Americans would watch in order to determine who they would cast their vote for come November 8th presidential debates have evolved into a comedy event.

In this first presidential debate the speaker I chose to focus on presidential candidate Senator Hilary Clinton. This speech was given at Hofstra University, which is located in Hempstead, New York. This debate was held on Monday, September 26th, 2016 to a large audience. The audience included many politicians, everyday Americans, neutralized individuals etc... In the opening segment of this debate, Mr. Lester Holt opened up this event asking each presidential candidate how would they respond to the issue of jobs in the entire United States if they were elected. In her response she was very focused and determine to get her point across. She was trying to persuade the audience that she would make the more valued

The famous term of the left wing and right wing is always associated in the view or beliefs of how the government should function. The left wing or democratic side corresponds to the ideal of a liberal or progressive manner in which the government has a greater responsibility to take care of the people. In contrast the right wing views the government in a more conservative manner and strongly concludes that individuals should take matters in their own hands excluding the government from too much involvement. The split of these two political parties were created because of the different stands they took in the issue of slavery in the 1860’s. Democracy means the power of the people in Greek and its origin comes from the Athens who was the original