Primary election

on in the world, until you hear about the ideas of the candidates who are running. All of the sudden, you become interested and you want to vote. B. Background and Audience Relevance: Lucky for you, elections are coming up. People who are eligible to vote can register in time for this year’s election. C. Speaker Credibility: I recently (today) registered to vote. It was this assignment that encouraged me to learn more about voting since it is an important topic that I knew little to nothing…

States of America operates its elections under is one based upon that of the Declaration of Independence. As such the ideals behind the system were kept in the minds of 18th century culture; the dissemination of information about current politics was not effective, in comparison to that of today’s media. Thus, a gap of information was present between the average people of the new America and that of those in the political world. As such the need for a system of election with checks of power and…

audience member posed a question about the Constitution's 17th Amendment, which requires direct election of U.S. senators by voters. I replied the 17th Amendment also permits state legislatures to decide their state’s method for nominating the parties' Senate candidates – be it by primary election, state party convention or caucus or legislators themselves – with voters electing the senator in the general election. Ten weeks later, without further inquiry, The Times published a story and two…

treatment during elections? How much coverage do they receive compared to major parties? Many states do not include third party presidential candidates in their ballots. Most of the focus by the media is on the stances of the main political parties. There have been many arguments suggesting that the third parties deserve an equivalent amount of recognition by media as major parties. However, others believe that since third parties have no clear chance of winning a major election, it is…

The amount of money spent isn’t necessarily what is causing the fear. More so it’s the fact that the donors with more money are overruling the everyday citizens who should have a voice to. The 2012 election cost nearly 6 billion dollars, making it the most costly congressional and presidential election America has ever scene. In the past many finance reforms have been done to help prevent a monopoly of the rich and wealthy 1% influencing politics rather than the general public opinion. You start…

a presidential election? Throughout the course of history, campaigning has been an important and effective way to gain support for a candidate during elections. However, questions have been raised about whether or not spending more leads to more success. In different scenarios financial backing can be more or less important to the popularity of a candidate, but overall it is not the only factor that influences the votes that the candidate receives in primaries as well as on election day. Money…

In the last few decades, we have witnessed an even larger shift in voter turnout between the baby boomers and millennials. The older citizens are turning out to vote more than younger citizens especially in midterm years. There are two main reasons for this, which absolutely need to be discussed. In addition, the effects of these two reasons in turnout provides the importance for even considering them. Voter Turnout Effected by Many Factors: (Esp. Older vs Younger Citizens) The first, is…

range for presidential elections and around 30 - 40% for midterm congressional races. It goes as far down as 23% for gubernatorial elections. Although, here in the United States, it is worse, lower participation in elections has become a norm in advanced democracies. Compulsory voting attendance has been proposed in the literature. Some non-democratic regimes have used the technique. But democratic countries like The Netherlands have also. Some see low turnout on election as an indication that…

standards set, Grinspan is able to accurately place his argument in the middle. The Wide Awakes did not value drunken celebrations as incentives to the ballot box like Gienapp characterizes in his analysis nor were they cynical Americans who thought elections and political parties were only for the elites like Altschuler and Blumin suggest (Altschuler and Blumin, 868). Although, they were proof of Gienapp’s claim stating that Americans did not deviate from their parties (Gienapp, 54; Grinspan,…

groups are made up of individuals who also contribute one example of this is the Koch brothers. Donate large sums of money as well. This chart clearly shows that PACs and interest groups are finically involved in elections by donating hundreds of millions of dollars to federal elections. PACs and interest groups can influence other forms of policy with information as well. An example of this could be when the PEETA provides environmental information that may benefit multiple people. They also…