The presidential election of 2016 between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump has been historical. Clinton had won the popular vote. However, Donald Trump had won the election with two hundred ninety electoral votes while Clinton only had two hundred thirty-two. There have only been five presidents out of the fifty-seven presidential elections that have won the election without having the popular vote. One of those elections happened this year a few days ago. If I could change anything about the United
United States by ensuring the best solution; therefore, eliminating stress for the political party and the people of the U.S. In 1948, article writers Lazarsfeld PF, Berelson B, and Gaudet H of The People’s choice: how the voter makes up his mind in presidential campaign, in the Columbia University Press, records about an experiment, in 1948 that impacted the voting behavior of Democrats and Republicans. With further research, they found that many voters were influenced by commentary and made changes to
Assignment Since the turn of the twentieth century, civil rights has been a controversial topic across all walks of humanity. During the nineteen hundred’s, women’s suffrage movement had taken place; later, from the nineteen thirties until the nineteen sixties, African Americans pushed the United States government to produce and enact their civil rights laws; today, rights for people of a sexual or gender orientation other than cisgender straight are being fought for. Two organizations that are still dedicated
which mainly consisted of poor whites and former slaves who pledged their loyalty to the Republican Party. This was also the first federal election Freedmen were able to vote and the Party of Lincoln was their political party of choice for more than sixty years. By 1878, the Radicals had lost their enthusiasm for protecting Blacks; federal troops were being withdrawn from each military district; and Reconstruction had come to an end. By 1880, the Democratic Party had disenfranchised the
current issues such as the Health Service, Crime etc. In addition to these they will look at past elections and their statistics to determine the possible result of an imminent election. Research in the 1950's and 60's in Britain and the USA indicates that all the factors that might contribute to a persons voting behaviour such as religion, gender, age and regional locality; social class was by far
this is becoming a colossal issue in today's world. It mostly is seen in the United States, where there are no laws against a free market for drug pricing; or in other words there are no rules about how to price prescription drugs. The prices of prescription drugs are rising at an very alarming rate, due to the fact that there are a lot of drug shortages and the money the companies spend on making the drug are so high. There are many different solutions to help fix the issue it all depends on what your
conservative views instead of the liberal views. (Katrina Trinko Facebook fact-checkers have a liberal bias) Facebook like other social media sites, have been accused of posting fake articles across their website. According to the PEW research center, sixty-seven percent of Americans rely on social media for their news coverage (News use across social media platforms 2016: Jeffrey Gottfried and Elisa Sherer). While social media has been known to show “fake news”, this has a huge impact on the influence
economic assistance to people faced with unemployment, disability and also provides medical care for the elderly. Medicare was provided by the Social Security Act in 1965. It is a compulsory insurance that covers certain hospital services for people over sixty five and older. When Congress passed the
According to the most recent US census in 2015, 50.8% of the population of the United States are in fact, women. Despite the sex ratio essentially being equal, female representation in government is not equal. A correlation is women in the federal bureaucracy and (generally) in federal politics did not occur until the early 1900s. For example, through the determination of Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others strong women, women were brought the right to vote in the United States by the
accessible to the public. In 1974, Congress overrode a presidential veto and revised the Freedom of Information act, providing the public and media with new tools to access information held by the executive branch. This act reduced secrecy in government and gave the public a way to check the governmental and political operations happening in Washington, D.C. In case of tampering, the Presidential Records Act of 1978 required preservation of all presidential records and documents. Following Congress’s lead