Iowa caucuses

He stood there on the stage, facing attacks from all sides, as the front-runner in New Hampshire avoided nearly all critiques. This was not supposed to happen—just days earlier, Sen. Marco Rubio had succeeded in spinning his third-place finish in Iowa as a win, but he now began to sweat as all of his weaknesses were exploited by his opponents. In a particularly painful exchange, Rubio repeated (almost) the same line (“This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not true.…

typical outcome as previous years, nothing shocking happened. A lot of people do not understand the difference between primaries and caucuses. While the two are very similar, “the main difference is who is running the show” (Putnam). Primaries are funded and run by the state government, and are modeled like the actual election in November. Caucuses are more complex. Caucuses are run by state parties instead of the government, they select not only the presidential candidate, but delegates for…

The United States Constitution is the basic law that defines how our nation’s government should behave. Prior to its ratification, the Articles of Confederation were the basic law in America, and they were weak; rebellions against the United States militia happened more than once, and at the Philadelphia Convention, the Framers realized the pressing need for an entirely new constitution, not just amendments to the Articles. It took months to finish, but on September 17, 1787, the document was…

In the mid 1990s there was a powerful new technology that seemed poised to revolutionize the communications paradigm in American politics. The internet was supposed to be a total game changer, returning power to the people, and removing the media, and thereby the need for big money, from the political equation. Now, twenty-some years later it is apparent that the internet, and online communication specifically, has only served to entrench prior communication patterns rather than revolutionize…

“A record-breaking 2.3 million new voters have registered” since the start of the year in California alone, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “Roughly two-thirds of them are under 35 and 26 percent are Latino, according to Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc., which does a running tally of voter registration. Nevertheless, so far, only about 10 percent of those new voters have cast early ballots. Only 1 in 8 of early voters have been Latino, leading some — like Mitchell — to…

If you watch the news you will see hear the voices. The voices that voraciously devour every tweet; the voices that tell of chaos and uncertainty that lie ahead for our democracy. But our democracy, the gold standard of democracies, should not be viewed this way. You might ask why America is hyped up to be so special and you might hear simply that America is number one. You might hear that we’re back-to-back World War Champs os of course we are the greatest. You, a foreigner. You, an immigrant.…

In today’s world, who becomes the president of the United States is extremely important. They communicate with other leaders, pass or veto laws, and try their best to solve America’s problems. Before that person can rule, they must go pass the political test. To become America’s next political leader, they must be chosen carefully through various debates and electoral stages. This year’s candidates have shown worthy though these processes. To be America’s president, the candidate has to be…

Works Cited Bush, George W. 41: A Portrait of My Father. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 2014. Print. 294 Pages A Book Review for 41: A Portrait of My Father George W. Bush had a chance like no other person has ever had, except for John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Bush had the opportunity to write about his experiences about being the President’s son, and eventually becoming the President. He tells of stories growing up as George H.W. Bush raised a family and at the same time dealt with the issues…

An Ever Changing Country Although it has been decades since slavery ended, racism is still a profound controversy in the United States today. Charles Blow describes some of these levels of racism and its effects on people in the United States in his article “White America’s ‘Broken Heart’”. The article, as can be deciphered by the title, is about how white Americans today are handling the changing situations of equality in the United States. Blow published this article February 4, 2016, on…

Discuss the impact of crises on the power of the president. The power of the president usually increases or is more obviously shown because they can show their strength through rallying around the flag and successfully fixing the problem such as, a military conflict that the US fixes without a prolonged military effort.A president can also be granted emergency powers in the time of an exceptionally serious crisis 2. Describe the typical professional and educational backgrounds of the US…