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objective reasoning, but more to emotions. TV celebrity status - Donald Trump's egotistical personality has been enlarged not because of his wealth but because of his TV reality show - The Apprentice. The show has made him a TV celebrity and conservatives love their celebrities. His TV celebrity, status seems to give him immunity as he can say outrageous things that if other candidates were to hint at would eliminate them…

With the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009, one of his primary goals was expanding health insurance. Although this drew praise from Democrats, Republicans were very concerned about the potential creation of a welfare state. Thus, the fight to implement the Affordable Care Act became a long, drawn out battle that it still being debated today. The concerns over government intervention, effectiveness, and solvency both explain why it was so difficult to pass the ACA and why it is…

government really happened during the Great Depression when the New Deal was introduced by Franklin Roosevelt. After World War 2 the Federal Government stayed with New Deal ideas and kept expanding its size, with social programs and military power. Democrats felt as the government could be used for good and that social programs such as welfare, were the government’s job. Republicans felt as though it wasn’t the government’s job to provide social programs for the population, and a big government…

In Australia, there is currently a dual electoral system. In the House of Representatives (lower house), there are 150 single-member seats with preferential voting (Find source). However in the Senate (upper house), there is a single-transferable proportional vote (STV) for each multi-member state (Find source). The proportional representation electoral system is believed to, according to Duverger’s Law, lead to a multi-party system (Find source). Despite this, the Australian House of…

few owners and editors which work for multiple websites. While there are available sources that have more conservative views, they are often harder to find compared to the liberal sources because of this. It does not help that more popular websites tend to be the first options that appear in a search, and those websites tend to be liberal. When sites and sources are found that have conservative beliefs, they are often attacked and ridiculed as incompetent sources, and are often not allowed to be…

The independents who caucus with the Democratic Party holds the other two seats. In the forth coming elections, the democrats will be defending 25 seats inclusive of the 2 seats held by the independents while the republicans will have only 8 seats. Steve Bannon who is a conservative strategist is leading a very powerful and growing coalition for the republicans with an intention of reforming the party from within. The Republican Party presidential…

The United States is currently very much divided politically. There’s the liberal left and there’s the conservative right. The partisanship in politics has its uses and its faults. Perhaps the biggest and most blatant benefit to the political party system is that party identification allows voters to know this stance of their candidate on important issues…

change. Eisenhower reached the presidential term limit and thus the quadrennial election was to be held with two new candidates. Our candidate, vice president Nixon, played an important role in this election, but he was defeated by the young Catholic Democrat, Senator John Kennedy, by a minimal margin in popular votes (49.6% vs. 49.7%, 270). Analyzing our candidate’s failure not only provides an explanation for him but also a reference for his future political career. Nixon’s failure, despite…

Democrats can draw the lines so that Republicans don’t receive any congressional votes even if they hold a fair share of the population’s support. Just recently, there was a Supreme Court Case that was based on a dispute of congressional district drawings…

like books, they’re all fact, no heart” -Stephen Colbert. As ironic as this quote may seem it is another example of Stephen Colbert’s comedic style, thick satire. “I Am America (And So Can You!)” is another fantastic presentation of Colbert’s conservative capitalist character already shown on the Colbert Report. The book addresses issues that Americans face as adults and current issues facing the nation, plus a note to the future. All these issues are taken on with humor and satire so as to…