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    The forty fifth Presidential Election in United States will be on November of 2016. The politician aspirants to the white house have already launched their campaigns to obtain the vote of the people. The most popular parties are the Republican, Democrat, and the Green Party. They are using the logic and emotional appeals to convince people to vote for them. Most of the candidates are visiting some of the states where the vote is really important. Some of them are being controversial about the…

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    When using the proportional voting system to elect the president the same winner, Barack Obama, was chosen, however with this new method the race was significantly closer. Using the current method used to elect President Obama, he won with three hundred and thirty two electoral votes to Mick Romney’s two hundred and six electoral votes. When the new method was used, the proportional system, Obama still won, however he did not win with as big of a gap as he did using the current method. With the…

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    Vice President under composite arrangements that involve constitutional provisions, federal and state laws. Reform measures to retain the Electoral College in some form have welcomed a range of diverse proposals. Those that are opposed to the changes and believe that the Electoral College impedes democracy in a way that is inconsistent with American practices that are modern whereas the proponents believe that Election College reform contributes to the country’s cohesiveness by demanding a…

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    If an interest group supports an extreme policy, advocacy groups can result in polarization through their influences in PACs. On the other hand, because party insiders want to win the elections, they invest in candidates who will be more appealing in general elections--that is it, candidates who will appeal to the median voter (Drutman 1, 2013). This is because most of the voters are moderate. Such an ideology is due to feeling unrelated to conservative or liberal views and, in some instances,…

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    Three factors which effect if citizens vote or not are socioeconomic status, political environment, and voting laws or regulations. Socioeconomic status is made up of someone’s higher education, occupation, and income. Someone with a lower socioeconomic statues may feel intimidated by the political process. Those with lower education may feel they do not understand the voting process and laws or terminology used in politics. Those who work lower income jobs may not have the time or disposable…

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    Prior to this past April, politics had not ever peaked my interest. However, in April I turned 18, making me a legal voter in the United States. Naturally and subsequently, I made the decision to begin looking into the world of politics. With the television at my disposal, I began using it as a source of better understanding the type of political culture I am living in. Every country offers its unique set of values and part of those values is what makes up the political culture. The political…

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    The battle when I'm President On March 11, 2016 in Dubuque, Iowa the voting for president was taking place. Dubuque was the only place that was left to take the votes. Two people were trying to get others to vote for them. Dakota is my couisn. One of them was Dakota and the other one was me. Dakota was trying 19 and I was 13 but we were young enough to run for president of the U.S.A because the age to run for president was dropped to 13 and older. So far Dakota had the most votes. He had 100…

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    Over the years the America has vastly changed, once a nation they did everything in it’s power to insure that only wealthy white land owners could take place in the electoral process; now opens it’s election to any citizen eighteen years of age and older. Although elections tend to reflect the popular opinion the democratic primaries, it does not always reflect the popular opinion of the office holders of the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention. In 1868…

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    Conservative received pronunciation, upper-crust received pronunciation or simply U-RP is likely one of the most fascinating accents of English. According to Peter Trudgill's estimation in 1974 only 3% of British population were considered being true RP speakers. Received pronunciation is, in fact, a minority accent. Consequently, conservative RP, as its less used and more archaic variety, has even fewer speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to outline the concept of a social…

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    Mondak’s and Halperin’s results indicated that agreeable individuals are likely to participate in local politics, but refrain from participating in matters pertaining to national elections (2008). It’s possible these results were found because national politics tend to be more rooted in disagreement than local politics. Another study, conducted in South Korea, found that agreeableness is negatively associated with voter turnout and…

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