Election Day

“National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.” Every 4 years the nation decides on the Presidency whom represents our country for 1 term. Normally if there is a change in whom controls the congress and the presidency is directly in association to the previous 4 years. The impact that elections have on the US is huge. After the past election, some of the…

Anahid Okonkwo American Presidency Professor Phillip Mundo October 7, 2015 How has the presidential selection system (nomination process and general election) changed over time? What caused these changes? Does this system produce better candidates for the presidency now than it did at an earlier time? Use course readings and lectures to construct your argument. Use examples of at least two presidents to support your essay. On July 4, 1776, following the gruesome war with the British, the…

mediated the voting interests of both the states and the federal government. It was initially designed to promote the voice of small states and the American people, create a well-informed voting body, and establish the Presidency as an independent election free from Congressional bias. Although this strategy was an effective solution to political disputes of the aforementioned era, it has now become outdated in contemporary society. Consequently, the Electoral College should be abolished for the…

S. Constitution. The Electoral College is a process that is used for electing a President and Vice President of the United States. The Founding Fathers made this compromise for wanting the President elected by Congress and those who wanted direct election by the people. The process of the Electoral College includes the selection of electors, the gathering of electors when and where they vote for President and Vice President and the calculation of the electoral votes, which is done by Congress.…

with this decision let me lay down some facts and information. In a presidential election, the popular vote simply means an aggregate of all voters from all states in America. The candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote. But the winner of the popular vote may end up losing the election, like “Al Gore did in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. In the 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney won 48% of the popular vote but only 38% of the electoral vote.”…

their funding into funding national elections such as the president while state and local party committees focus on local and state positions however state and local committees can focus on spreading the agenda of the presidential election while the national focuses largely on the candidates campaign itself (Maloney, 2013, p. 8). In order to prevent the abuse of this system and prevent a candidate from using an unlimited amount of funds towards their election, restrictions are placed on the…

issue with elections and electing leaders or legislators is the people not going to the polls and voting. Compulsory voting or mandatory voting are laws that several democratic nations have passed making citizens go to vote on election day. The number one opposing statement to mandatory voting is that it impedes on the Right to Vote. Mandatory voting is effective at raising turnout and reducing turnout inequality. In Australia, the introduction of compulsory voting for Commonwealth elections in…

The immediate former president of the United States had over twenty-million followers on Twitter during his intense campaign that led to the election of the first black president to head world’s biggest economy. His opponent, Mitt Romney, had over one-million followers on Twitter with over seven million friends on Facebook. In the recently concluded election leading to the Trump presidency, the two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, relied heavily on social media…

The majority of people in this day and age work on Tuesdays. Between registered electorates that did not ballot in the 2012 election, approximately 1 in 5 said things came up or had something to do. One probable fix to this would be to make Election Day a national holiday. This would give most employees the day off and make it much easier to get to a voting station. Also, holding elections over a weekend would also aid those that meet transportation difficulties…

with voting on the election do not go with the ideals of what was stated in the Declaration of independence. These restrictions and what many of the millennial are thinking, “our vote does not count” illustrates the fact that the ideals that this country was founded on does not represent the realities of the election. Many youth are discouraged from going down, and they find that the two party systems does not represent them, and that their vote does not matter at the end of the day due to the…