General election

Only 4…..3% of all U.S. citizens 18 years or older voted in the 2014 midterm elections (File). Since voting is one of a citizen’s sole civic responsibilities for a representative democracy, it is striking that less than half of the voting aged populace engaged in the elector process? When trying to explain a citizen’s level of political activity and civic engagement, one must comprehend the factors involved at the individual level. Context matters. As a country containing a diverse populace with…

ideas being politics. Many distinguished people in the government believe that television allows direct contact between election candidates and the people, while others would argue that the presence of television influences…

basic life educational skills. However, when it comes to education in politics the majority of the United States lacks knowledge on politics. Being that the United States is a democracy, members of the country fail to use their right to vote in the elections that mater. The major reason why the millennial’s are uneducated…

Citizens hold the power to arbitrate who the new Commander in Chief, also known as the president of the United States will be. Every four years’, in November states hold elections where all citizens go and cast a vote for presidency. Throughout history we have encountered numerous close elections, and to think that one small percentage of citizens that did not vote, could possibly have had a different outcome if they would have voted. Society has seemed to lost interest over the years in…

Intersectionality is the interconnected ways by which various individuals. Kimberle Williams Crensha discrimination based on social differences with given societies. Far often many view issues as being singular. However, as more complex studies take a look in to solving these issues, the more researchers see that these issues are very much so connected with each other. For example, if an African-American poor woman is experiencing discrimination in life these troubles are not either linked to…

Compared to last week’s activity, this game seemed a bit more understandable and not mysterious. I was at first lost on what to vote since I did not quite understand what we would get from voting 1 or 0. When we were told to vote, I did not think much about it and decided to just write down a number. I voted 1 because I honestly thought that voting 0 was weird. When the professor was counting the votes for 0, I was quite shocked. Many people decided to vote 0 although they knew they were…

However, Richard Hayes Phillips points out that “Exit poll analysis alone cannot prove election fraud” (par. 3). This is very true. The only way to declare the official results legitimate is by actually counting and analyzing the official ballots. Exit polls are not a valid source. They typically have a small sample size, about 1,000 respondents…

In the 2000 election there was voter fraud which called for a recount in Florida if this was a populist vote it would call for country wide recount, but “The Electoral College reduces the possibility of a recount since popular vote totals are often much closer than the…

and murder were only a few of the allegations thrown around by both sides. Andrew Jackson’s supporters even accused Adams and Henry Clay of collusion when Henry Clay was named Secretary of State. A painting by George Bingham in 1851, The County Election, captured the essence of negative voting practices during this transitional period of history. Bingham would have most certainly been labeled an opponent of the Jacksonian Age, based on the depictions in the painting. The painting shows…

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were two prominent figures in American politics in the 1850’s. Douglas, a spokesperson for the Democratic party, was looking to be reelected for his third term in the United States Senate. Lincoln, a representative for the Republican party, was running for the Senate in the very seat that Douglas currently held. These two men engaged in a series of seven debates, that would garner national attention and speak to various issues regarding the political…