Elections

Preliminary Relationships Relationship between educational levels, age and voting in the last federal election Relationship between voting in the last federal election and interest in politics Factors that have an influence on voting in the last federal election: Age, Highest education level, Interest in politics, Source of media to follow the news and current affairs + Frequency to follow the news and current affairs, Participation in political activities + Frequency of participation,…

The election is rigged, unless Trump wins. Trump’s repeated claim that the election is rigged is unfounded, almost certainly false, and threatens the foundation of our democratic society. Every time he feels threatened or his poll numbers drop, he becomes an eight year old who can’t admit he lost his little league game and blames it on the umpire's bad call. But Trump isn’t an eight year old and the ‘game’ he is playing will decide the future of America. Trump is a candidate, that even at…

This current election season, millions have already come out to vote in the primaries and caucuses all around the nation, turnout has increased and everyone seems to be enthusiastically choosing a candidate. But there is one thing that voters going to the polls may not realize; contrary to popular belief, citizens of The United States have never directly voted for a President or Vice President. Instead, they vote for electors to vote for a specific candidate. Additionally, the President and Vice…

Elections and campaigns play a big part of the democratic system. Elections are conducted every two years and are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered years. States must elect members of Congress and vote for president on this date. Durning non-presidential years in Texas, general elections are held every two years to elect candidates to statewide offices such as governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, land commissioner, agricultural commissioner…

vote in the upcoming presidential election which is taking place on November 8th, 2016. To accomplish this project, my group created a twitter account as a secondary socialization to reach out to students of University of North Texas encouraging and educating them on the importance of voting in the society. Polling, surveys and random sampling were used to show percentage of people who identified with a party and who were going to vote in the upcoming elections. In class, we talked about how…

(270) wins the election. The electoral college is made up of electors chosen by each state that is equal to the number of representatives in congress. The electoral college should not be changed at all because it protects from uneducated decisions, it protects equal votes for states, and insures a fair vote. The electoral college is here to make decisions the general public can not. The famous federalist Alexander Hamilton said, “It is equally desirable, that the immediate election should be…

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…

as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote. Each state is given a specific number of electors based on the number of its United States representatives and senators. This allows for over-representation of small states and under-representation of large states, while the winner-takes-all format followed by most states could result in a candidate winning the popular vote but losing the election. This has occurred on…

This chapter is all about elections and voting rights. Voting has always been a hard subject to talk about if you were African American or a woman. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was signed which stated that women had the right to vote nationally. Before that, in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was passed that outlawed denying people the right to vote on the grounds of there “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (Turner 251). Years later in 1964, the Twenty-fourth Amendment was…

electoral system. So when former Prime Minister Stephen Harper called an early election on August 2015, many did not understand its significance on the upcoming election. Harper believed that an early election would give him the advantage over other party leaders and would help him stay in office, but he was wrong. Despite the clever nature of this decision, where the timing conveniently worked with the newly passed Fair Elections Act and the Mike Duffy trial, the Conservatives faced devastating…