Election

As he belongs to Republican Party, my thoughts and views overlap with his views. He has won the election two times in 2014 and 2016 which proves that district 115 has maximum number of republican voters. I think, me being a moderate republican, have quite good chance of winning the election in this district as I will also be working on the similar projects like improving education, health services and making gay marriage legal. However, people…

get the votes for their political candidate on election day. Larger cities in the United States, like Philadelphia, were accused of using political machines. These bosses would force their political candidate onto the people and turn out large number of voters on election day. In the passage, The Shame of the Cities, it says “the citizens have no more rights than the negroes down south.” The black’s votes down south were lost when it came to election day, and votes in the north were just as…

governance, backed by the Liberal Democratic party. Kazuhiko Yamauchi successful campaign illustrates distinctive attributes, that ultimately wins Yamauchi the election. Yamauchi following the conventions of a Japanese campaign is paramount. Adhering to traditional campaign conventions, gave Kazuhiko Yamauchi the most favorable outcome in the election. Yamauchi on the surface was not an ideal candidate. Yamauchi had zero political experience. The only formal requirement that Yamauchi…

each district has an election and the party that wins the most districts then wins the election. The first of such flaws is gerrymandering. The dictionary definition of gerrymandering is, “To divide [a geographic area] into voting districts in a way that gives one party an unfair advantage in elections” (“Gerrymandering”). The term gerrymandering was first coined in the 1800s when the governor of Massachusetts named Gerry changed the electoral districts purely to win an election. These electoral…

A development of recent states have been battling over several times of making a voter ID laws into reality. Republicans believes that a voter ID law would stop election fraud from occurring in order to have accurate and honest election results. But, would an national ID card or something similar to it going to fix the problem? According to Fraught With Fraud article “ID cards are man-made and anything and anything man-made can be counterfeited” (Hyde, K. (2008, October 13)). Not to mention,…

In America, there are two main parties which are the Republican and the Democratic party that seem to be somewhere in the middle of these two. Americans pick a party and develop a deep connection to them, and the organizations’ actions affect both election returns and policy outcomes. American political parties are decentralized. They each have a loose network of organizations, groups, and individuals who share a party label but don’t have to work together. Americans think of themselves as…

The First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system (plurality system) is the system that is adopted within the Canadian electoral system to choose their representatives in the federal and provincial elections. There are many voices in Canada and other places where the FPTP is used to change it with the Proportional Representation Systems, which the newly elected liberal government intends to change (Simonsen, 2005). The current federal government is not the only one that criticised the FPTP system but also…

During the last presidential election, I was not old enough to vote, so I did not have much of a say when it came to political topics and who I thought would make a better president. However, both sides of my family differed widely in their opinions. My close family is very conservative…

United States electoral process fair and effective? The answer will vary, depending on who you ask. There are many aspects of the election process that must be considered to determine its fairness and effectiveness- such as nomination process/primaries, voting methods, and much more. With this being said, the electoral process is effective but unfair due to elections being done by electoral votes and the power of money. Although democracy is spread out and is said “every vote counts”,…

identity perspective is the idea that a person’s self-esteem and worth is a result of their membership or relevancy to a certain group. In simpler terms, our sense of self is a result of the recognition of an in-group. In certain cases, such as the 2016 election, system justification theory seems to nullify the social identity perspective. The social identity perspective was overridden during…