Mexican general election

With the Presidential Election rapidly approaching, voter turnout rate is one of the most important statistics and political phenomenon worth studying. In a country that is supposed to be governed by the people, America’s voter turnout rate is remarkably low. There are many causes for the lack of civic engagement in the American political process. One of the main objectives of Political Parties, at a grassroots level, is finding out why people aren’t voting, and then doing as much as possible to…

Lit Review The most useful article I came across was an aggregate level look at 83 studies where voter turnout was the dependent variable. It seems the most useful as it creates a solid base to start looking at many of the variables that cause dips and changes in voter turnout. The study conducted by Benny Geys, looks at so many studies and breaks down the different independent variables that can effect voter turnout.(2006) This study does well at defining voter turnout and ensuring that the…

Voting is an essential right given to individuals who are considered citizens of this great country. As a citizen of the United States of America you are entitled to countless rights that can be exercised because it is granted by the Constitution. Our Founding Fathers created the Constitution, which is essentially a manual that our society uses to make sure our government is effective. However, since our country has grown and expanded throughout the century so has the constitution. The…

There are many ways to get involved in politics. One can vote, educate themselves on important topics, run for office, help another person run for office, or even bash others who are running for a government position. As far as education goes, there are always things to be learned. I believe that I am educated enough to make a positive contribution. I keep up with most issues that arise and are worth taking sides on. I choose sides not only based on things I need or want, but more on what…

been whittled down from a grand democracy, allowing for much competition, to a two-party controlled system. The election process has come to having only two competing candidates each coming from one of the major political parties, either the Democrats or the Republicans. Many Americans probably would not be able to identify any of the candidates from minority parties in the 2016 election; however, without a doubt they can identify the candidates of the two major political parties. This problem…

On the 4th of November, in the year of 2008, having the first African-American Democratic candidate win the presidential election of the United States made history. President Barack Obama became the forty-fourth president of the United States by beating out his Republican competitor, John McCain. This announcement to the thousands in attendance and to the millions that it was televised to signified a sense of hope and accomplishment. Again, in 2012, he won the presidency and is currently serving…

of the basic patterns of selecting judges. There are partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, appointments, and appointments with retention election. Partisan elections, like the system we have in Texas currently works by each candidate having to run under a party affiliation. In a partisan election candidates first run in a primary election and it also incorporates straight-party voting. The good thing about partisan elections is that they allow people of that state some control by being…

With the increase of modern technology, the affects media has on presidential elections has greatly increased. Television, social media, radio broadcasts and other forms of media are easily accessed by almost every American in the year 2015. After a great amount of research, it is has been concluded that media is biased and influences the decisions made by Americans when voting for the next president. However, even before the increase in modern technology, media has always been a contributing…

who will arguably be the most powerful man in the world when inaugurated in January. I think that most people are now familiar with the tape, recorded back in 2005, but only recently released in October of 2016 for the public to hear due to the election. In this tape, Mr. Trump and another man, Billy Bush, are caught vulgarly speaking about women and Mr. Trump claims he “can do whatever he wants,” but the most…

uid&db=ulh&AN=119374037&site=ehost-live&scope=site. The Trump campaign voiced the idea that so many people had throughout the United States, there needs to be change. Bernie Sanders had already shown that this feeling was there in the Democratic Party, by almost grabbing away the election from Hillary Clinton, but Donald Trump fully tapped into this feeling at the Republican side. It also helped that on the other side there was a candidate who people thought of as the same old and as a…