that she has the tools to take on the gun lobby. The American public has repeatedly shown its concern about gun violence. According to a Gallup poll conducted in January 2017, 54 percent of voters claimed to be dissatisfied with the nation’s laws or policies on guns. 37 percent of those who were dissatisfied went on to state that they desired stricter gun laws. (Gallup 2017) Due to gun violence within the nation that causes Americans to become uneasy, Clinton will have to restore the hope of…
National health care is a legally enforced scheme of health insurance that insures a national population against the costs of health care. In America, it cost money to get health care, but people want to change that and make it free. According to the Gallup poll, “56% of Americans do not believe that it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage.(procon)" If national health care would help the country in such a great way then why does more…
(beer-brewing.com). Last year’s winner for the poll, “Adult beverage of choice this year” was beer. In fact, for almost two decades that has been the type of alcohol they imbibe most often. 41% of U.S. drinkers report they typically drink beer; 31% wine and 23% liquor (Gallup). With that being said about 64% of U.S. adults say that they “have occasion to use alcoholic beverages” where as half, at 36% are identified as total abstainers. According to Gallup, an American research company, this is…
My Value for this debate will be security. Security is defined by Merriam Webster as the state of feeling safe, stable, and free from fear or anxiety. Security must be held highest in today’s debate because without Security, we cannot advance in society because there would not be human life to protect. This leads me to my criterion. My Criterion for this debate will be Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs describes what humans need to survive. Security, which is a basis of…
This website was founded by George Gallup in 1935. Gallup.com is based on clothes shopping. It's trying to lead us to believe that in store is a better fit than online. There were surveys given to provide the evidence for this site. The results from the surveys were based on telephone , web and e-mail interviews with adults in the Gallup Poll panel survey of households. The surveys were generated to gain percentages for the overall results…
helping push the country to a new era, it would seem that his lessons have been forgotten by many in recent years. Polls of Americans, both white and black, have shown that favorable views of racial relations have been falling since 2013. This change coincides with the acquittal of George Zimmerman and the subsequent formation of the Black Lives Matter movement. According to Gallup polls, 2015 marked the lowest point in race relations since the turn of the century. This was not long after the…
The 480 is fiction, but the science-fictional seeming technology that drove the plot was very real in 1964. Four years earlier, Kennedy’s presidential campaign hired Simulmatics Corporation to estimate the political effect of various campaign tactics Kennedy could pursue. Though Simulmatics would later dip its feet in many fields, it was incorporated in 1959 with the sole purpose of modeling voting behavior, and its work with the Kennedy campaign was its first contract. Their computer…
The hypothesis generated at the beginning of the experiment was proven false. There was no definitive correlation between LGBT discrimination and global suicide rates. Since there was not any definitive correlation, the hypothesis that there would be a high positive correlation was proven false. There are several different explanations as to why the data turned out this way. One reason is that suicide rates in third world or undeveloped countries are on average lower. Lakshmi Vijayakumar…
Opposition Among Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Students”, Jason Sole, Brian E. Oliver, and Raj Setharaju spoke about some of the studies of the death penalty throughout history. Previous opinion polls have showed that most Americans have supported capital punishment for decades. In 2013, a Gallup poll showed record opposition to the death penalty since 1972. For the past forty years research has shown that white Republican males are in favor of the death penalty as opposed to non-white…
Universal Healthcare Universal healthcare is a hot topic in America. According to a Gallup poll in 2015, roughly 50% of Americans agree with universal healthcare, while the other 50% disagrees with it. Generally, the pro side (the half that agrees) are lower middle class or unemployed with lower incomes, whereas the con side (other half that is against) are majority upper class with higher annual incomes. The pro side, like myself, would tend to argue that universal healthcare would help the…