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turnout has been dismal. The presidential election in 2012 had a voter turnout of about 57.5%. That means a little over half of the voter population did not voice their opinion on who should be the nation’s president for the next four years in the voting booth. If this continues, there will be a president whom the general public may not want but could have prevented if all they did was vote. However, the upcoming presidential election seems to be different from previous elections just due to the massive

extent did the media affect the election of 1948? The scope of this investigation will include the months preceding the election of 1948. The investigation will look into the different ways the media affected the outcome of the election, how recent actions of the president Truman affected it, and any other possible influences on the election. This investigation will mainly use interviews and newspapers to get a better look at how people actually there felt about the election. This investigation will take

” is it not true that one would expect the individual to excel in comparison to his/her “first try”? This is an important question to consider, especially when dealing with significant roles/leaders within society, such as the President of the United States. When President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, many people had high expectations throughout his four years, and when he was reelected in 2012, people believed he would do better during a second term. As an incumbent, he had the edge against

redistricting parts of the state to aid voter turn out to the party in power. With the ever growing minority population, legislative action is to keep the slant conservative rather than liberal, and to do this they have adopted what is called gerrymandering. To better understand the revision of this act, citizens must first understand what the Voting Rights Act did, and why it was changed by Congress. As the people, we must ask if this change is truly beneficial, especially in the state in which we reside

The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Like so many Americans I was incredibly excited to see our country taking such a giant leap forward in our attitudes about Race and equality. It didn’t take long to realize that my hopes were going to be dashed and our country was going to in fact experience a “rebirth of racism” that defies imagination. January 20th, 2009 brought a day of frigid temperatures in Washington, D

It is a good day to be an American. It is now official; we now know the two candidates running for President of the United States on the upcoming elections. Representing the Republican Party is Donald Trump and for the Democratic Party is Hillary Clinton. We are going into this presidential election with the uncertainty of not knowing if we have selected the most capable candidates to lead this country. On one side, we have Donald Trump, a person that has no political experience and calls it

George Washington was elected President in 1789 by members of the fledgling United States of America, he was setting into motion a tradition that has stood the test of over 225 years - the presidential election. Even as the United States has seen dozens of wars, made hundreds of scientific advances, and selected thousands of politicians to seats everywhere from small town councils to Congress, the principles of the election have remained the same; the people band together to determine who will best

young Americans and African Americans interested in politics. He also seemed like someone that would improve race relations and that definitely gained my attention and made me interested in his campaign. Without a doubt Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign is what made me interested in politics. I prefer the Democratic Party because I agree with their philosophy on a lot of important issues. In addition, there are certain issues such as mental health, police reform, health care, privacy

Root Cause Conflict Analysis of the 2016 Presidential Election Problem The United States’ presidential election this year is nothing but a massive conflict between both the presidential nominees, and actual violent confrontations amongst the voters. There will be ramifications for many years to come regardless of who wins, and the world is paying attention. Both the presidential nominees are morally reprehensible people who are reviled greatly by significant portions of the U.S. population, yet

Libertarians might support the idea, but hardly anyone else. Engineers would point out that such cars, if produced in any significant number, would zip along roads just a few feet—perhaps even a few inches—from one another; the chance of accidents would not simply be high, it would be certain. Public-health specialists would estimate that many of these accidents would lead to serious injuries and deaths. No one could say in advance how common they would be, but the best experts might guess that the