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Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Vice president Lyndon B. Johnson was transitioned into office to finish out Kennedy’s term. At this point in time, Republican and Democratic parties began campaigning for the upcoming 1964 election. The Republican nominee opposing Lyndon B. Johnson was past 5 term senator Barry Goldwater. As part of Goldwater’s campaign, future president Ronald Reagan gave a speech on national television that raised over 8 million dollars. This would come to be…

Hillary Clinton’s Unfavorability Ratings are Driven by Media Coverage If you pay any attention to the media this campaign season, one thing you would hear is how unpopular both presumptive nominees of the two parties are. The latest poll numbers of Clinton and Trump’s favorable and unfavorable are as follows: Hillary Clinton: 43% Favorable 55% Unfavorable Donald Trump: 29% Favorable 70% Unfavorable According to the media, these are the worst poll numbers of recent presidential…

Through his work with Senator John McCain, Senator Obama got the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act (HLOGA) passed. It was Obama’s first attempt to slow down the “revolving door.” Its goal is to stop excess in privately funded travel and gifts. HGOLA is also trying to increase transparency…

We are expected to discover new things about ourselves and our morality by using the online simulation titled, “Should You Kill The Fat Man?” By navigating through a scenario involving a runaway train and an evil fat man, the user of the simulation should finish the scenario feeling as if they learned something new about themselves. To begin, the answer four preliminary questions that establish our morality, and the extremes we will go to in order to make the best decision. Next, the simulation…

The 2016-2017 presidential election is known as one of the most iconic elections in modern history. In the beginning of the election there were 17 candidates in the republican party and 8 in the Democratic party, and all candidates but two dropped out. The last candidates remaining were Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, and the election named after them was called “Crooked vs. Crazy”. This election, to most Americans, did not have the most honorable candidates to vote for, but it was a matter of…

Introduction The case study regarding Barack Obama´s 2008 Presidential Campaign by Ryan and Jones created in 2009, showed how Obama´s campaign needed to reach out to voters in 15 critical swing states. The campaign turned to Pontiflex for a cost-effective way to collect different contact information of interested voters and potential campaign donors. However, the case study does not explain anything about what or who “Pontiflex” is. By finding information online, Pontiflex is a mobile…

Wikileaks, an organization that allows whistleblowers to publish “…suppressed documents of diplomatic, ethical, historical or moral significance that reveal illegal or immoral behavior,” (Wikileaks); is being silenced by the media from exposing the Democratic Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. The media is helping cover up the truth because of special interests. Wikileaks has released the deleted Hillary emails, DNC emails, and John Podesta (Hillary’s Chairman of the her presidential…

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) involves 12 countries: the United States (US), Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Japan. The TPP stems from an existing agreement between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore (Lewis). If the agreement is ratified, it would be the largest regional trade accord in history, since these countries account for roughly 40% of the global economy (Granville). According to the Office of the…

“Dog Whistle Politics” is defined as political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup. Like a high-pitched dog-whistle, the message is only audible for the group it is intended to reach. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class was written by Ian Haney Lopez and looks into the racially charged coded…

Pay equity means eliminating sex and race discrimination in the wage-setting system. The existence of the gender wage gap in the American workplace is a distinctly debated issue in today’s society. There should not be an employer who bases their paying wage off of gender, but establish equal work on jobs requiring performance of skilled assets to create equal earnings. More so, a women’s education must add professionalism to their resume instead, to create more opportunities. The Paycheck…