United States presidential election, 1968

The media plays an important role in American’s daily lives. As an apparent influencer, media shapes American’s mindsets regarding politics. Whether the outlet be TV channels, articles, social media, images, or websites, the media affects citizen’s viewpoints. Therefore, Americans, typically, trust journalists and believe the information presented by the media. Depending upon which outlet accessed, the media, unfortunately, is a bias source towards progressive- liberals and conservatives. For example

tell them how to act and what to wear. They lose their personal identities because of this since everyone around them is also dressing the same way. Another example of how technology has a large influence over political identity is this past 2016 Presidential

If you vote for president in the United States you don’t directly vote for the actual president. When people vote in the U.S. Presidential Election their votes don’t go straight to the result. Instead,their votes go to the state, and whoever wins the majority of votes in that state earns that state’s electoral votes. States get their electoral votes based on how large their population is. All of the states added up have 538 electoral votes combined, and those 583 electoral votes make up the electoral

On January 10th, 2017, Barack Obama - the 44th President of the United States - gave his farewell speech in the nontraditional city of Chicago, Illinois. Out of the many brilliant quotes drawn from his speech, one really catered to a phenomena sweeping the nation at this very moment in time: race relations. On that brisk Tuesday evening, Obama claimed that “...race relations are better today. All of us have more work to do in the area of race relations. Hearts must change to stop discrimination.”

The 2016 Presidential Election has been one of the most bewildering experiences of my lifetime, but also, possibly the most telling event of where the average American voter’s values lie and the extent of our social progression. Personally, I, like many political scientists, educated scholars, politicians, celebrity figures, stand-up comics, preteens on twitter, optimists, and the entirely of the modern liberal media, truly believed Hillary Clinton would become our 45th, and 1st woman, president

The United States presidential election of 1984 was the 50th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1984. The presidential race was between the incumbent Republican candidate, President Ronald Reagan, and former Vice President Democratic candidate, Walter Mondale. Reagan was helped in the election by a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981–1982. Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states, becoming only the second presidential candidate to do so after Richard

The Election of 2016 As a nation, American’s face many issues that must fixed be as a whole. We face issues about our healthcare, education, taxes, immigration, etc. In the election of 2016 the two most important issues to focus on are healthcare regarding abortions, and the second amendment. Healthcare has been an ever-changing controversy, especially with the recently instated Obamacare in 2010. Between the two presidential nominees, Obamacare and abortion have been a debatable topic of choosing

Donald Trump 's victory in the 2016 presidential election took many people by surprise. Pollsters, political analysts, news anchors and even celebrities expressed shock that a Washington outsider could triumph over a candidate with Hillary Clinton 's history in politics. Clinton and Trump expressed views throughout their campaigns that were in direct opposition, including their opinions on the Dodd-Frank Act, the legislation that spawned the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As

american revolution and later became the first president of the United States of America. He was a magnificent president and he set the bar for what the president should be like. Throughout history we have had many presidents some good some not so much. This upcoming election will decide our forty fifth president of the United States, and may be the single most important election we will ever have. All the presidents of the United States have had a problem that they had to deal with and that they would

2011). This quote has recently given many people a negative depiction towards the government, due to election season. Along with this negative depiction towards the government are topics that pose issues to society. The most common talked about topics between Donald Trump (Republican) and Hillary Clinton (Democrat) are often referred to as the “hot button issues.” Some of the discussions this election season have been about social groups and organizations, race and ethnicity, social stratification