Susan Page Divided We Stand

Public opinion polls come in a wide-set of different subjects and are good examples of inductive arguments that are seen and used in our day to day lives to measure the public’s views regarding a particular topic or topics done so by taking a non-biased survey/questions. This is an excellent example of inductive arguments, because the person or party/entity conducting these surveys, is looking to validate their argument and assumptions, or to provide a guarantee of truth in the concluding result. However, it is not simply easy to rely on “experts” and believe that the data from these polls they collect, are completely accurate and are not skewed from their own biases. Since a survey is an inductive generalization, a sample is taken from the target population from which a conclusion is drawn regarding the entire population.Which makes these inductive arguments fall into two categories: either weak or strong.

In this article, I found new key points to support my new claim of what the author 's main point is.  At certain parts in the article, the author explains  how he has learned lessons in the factory which he couldn 't have learned in the classroom.  These lessons allowed him to better his college life, by understanding why it is important to not sack off is one example.  There are many instances in this article that I can use to support my claim.  By showing the specific text in my essay, will further substantiate my claim and allow me to show my audience the author 's key point and enforce my stance.

The author, V. O. Key, states the results of a survey that shows that voters tend to vote for people who vote for candidates that will help them financially. He also states that people tend to vote for a certain party’s candidate because of their ties to the party. Key then declares that one can predict a person’s vote based on their personality and attributes. Key also shows that although these behaviors show strangeness, the voters have great importance to politics. Key says that the voters’ behavior has importance as it helps candidates discover the nature of the voters’ interests to try gain an advantage. Finally, Key states that voters behave as well as possible, considering the possibilities of other

In the article “The Myth of the Vanishing Voter” by Michael P. McDonald and Samuel L. Popkin, it is argued that the decline in voter participation in national elections since 1972 is an illusion created by the Bureau of the Census because it uses the voting-age population to calculate voter turnout instead of calculating the population of citizens who are eligible to vote (2001, 963).

To be clear, the intent of this essay is not to argue for or against the content; instead, we are analyzing what the article does in terms of the following:

Different opinions concerning religion, government, attachment to different leaders or to persons whose fortunes have interested human passions support the claim that “the latent cause of faction are …sown in the nature of man.”

‘Voting behaviour at UK elections is determined more by issues of personality and image than on the basis of policies or performance in office’. Discuss.

Studies conclude that citizens who tend to classify themselves as either conservative or liberal tend to have opposing political and policy views (p. 571). This means that social opinions alone does not have a significant or resilient influence in elite or mass polarization. This leads us to our next variable, partisan elections.

What are the main ideas and/or issues of the article as it relates to the chosen topic?

The article was well written and organized thought. However it did had a bit of deficiencies. Although the usage of personal experience and opinions are existing but she also used a lot of rhetorical strategies. This overreliance made the argument and the tone sound little bit emotional. The introduction of

Data used for this term paper was obtained from Houghton Mifflin Company through the 1996 Voter's Data Set found as part of the Crosstabs package. The dependent variable (rows) I chose to highlight the 1996 U.S. presidential election voting pattern was the Final Voting Choice. The independent variables (columns) I chose were personal traits such as education, income, age, religious affiliations, race, and gender. The data made available by the Crosstabs program was compiled in a statistically scientific way by a national survey of citizens before and after the 1996 election. The objective of this research is to determine which of the personal traits of the electorate has a positive, negative, or an indifferent impact on voter turnout. Therefore, I have made the following five assertions in the below listed hypotheses:

Michael Parenti, author and political scientist, describes human nature as a topic deeply intertwined with politics. The reason for this is because arguments for and against human nature being unalterable and the cause of everything destructive are both ideologically motivated and have a political implication. According to him, to say that human nature is accountable for our current social relations is no different than what renowned thinkers of the past have asserted for their own social circumstances. For instance, philosophers of the Classical Era such as Plato and Socrates believed everyone belonged to their place in the hierarchy. That

In chapter 4 Craig address that voter have a level of ignorance. On page 71 he proposes the idea that campaigns can be built around the idea of keeping voters uniformed. Thomas Patterson and Robert McClure stated “that television news ‘may be fascinating. It may be highly entertaining. But it is simply not informative’,” (Craig, 72). This assessment may be too antagonistic but it does suggest another perspective. While not all campaigns follow this, does find this theory as plausible or even probable?

Other factors that divide United States citizens include LGBTQ issues, views of centralized government, immigration, and gender issues. Americans are divided so politically due to their personal stances on issues. Class, race, and gender definitely plays a role in the division. People side with politicians who reflect their personal views and can implement policies that help them.

The delayed and half hearted attempt at a thesis is not a good feature of an argument according to the academic discourse community. The second error that Cave makes is that he looses his voice in the paper as a whole. Short though it is, Cave still manages to stuff no less than eleven sources in his article. While a wide variety and scope of outside sources in not intrinsically bad, on the contrary it usually is desirable, summarizing the sources rather than having them back up his own ideas is where Cave goes wrong. There are 21 paragraphs total in Cave's article, only 5 of which contain his own voice. At a scanty 24% appearance rate, the academic discourse community would be sure to note the lack of the author's voice. Both the tardy, weak thesis and the overkill of sources as compared to Cave's own voice make the reader question his credibility as an author.