Realigning election

I think the voting age should remain at 18, for a few reasons. Among these are that older voters are more aware of the issues, younger voters barely if at all are interested in what is going on in the country, and at the age of 16, I don't believe people are mature enough to truly grasp the impact their vote can have in bringing about change. Older voters are most likely plugged in to the day to day issuses that effect the…

There is a substantial need for exit polls and other forms of data to help confirm cleavage stereotypes and provide a more concrete view of the interests of various groups, for example, more polling in American election districts with a male Republican and female Democrat. These types of exit polls would help to fine tune the theories presented earlier by providing data on the other cleavages that play a role in that type of voting behaviour, such a race or class…

Patrick Porter argues that the timing is right, based on four distinct trends, for policy leaders to examine the benefits and dilemmas of an alternate grand strategy. He proposes ideas for a new strategy that encourages varying levels of retrenchment and a willing acceptance of multipolarity. One of the trends, hegemony fatigue held by Americans, deserves further context by introducing additional political dilemmas. Appearing to abdicate American leadership under an increasingly polarized…

The party that I chose to evaluate was the Illinois Green Party. I chose to evaluate this website because I wanted to see how a 3rd party would match up to the Democratic and Republican pages. At first glance, the page does seem to be a little outdated, however it was much better than I anticipated. Because the Green Party is a lesser known party, I expected a late 90s themed website that was hard to navigate. On the homepage there were links for people to get involved with the party, as well as…

Should the voting age be lowered to 16? As the 2016 Presidential Election debate season comes to a close, many teens have been more involved than ever in their political views. Many leaders in today's government believe that the youth have a unique perspective and they’ll never have those experiences again. Another idea often thought of is that if we let uneducated adults vote, why not let smart youth vote. Overall, many leaders in today's government want to lower the voting age in order to…

Preliminary Relationships Relationship between educational levels, age and voting in the last federal election Relationship between voting in the last federal election and interest in politics Factors that have an influence on voting in the last federal election: Age, Highest education level, Interest in politics, Source of media to follow the news and current affairs + Frequency to follow the news and current affairs, Participation in political activities + Frequency of participation,…

place. But they are essential building blocks of a successful democracy”. In a way he is right successful democracies don't happen in the night, but they are not the building blocks as an example theres America that voters don't have any say in the election process. Likewise in the source “Does Mandatory Voting Restrict or Expand Democracy?” by Wael Abdel Hamid he states: ”Whether you are an advocate for or against mandatory voting, the concept is a thought provoking idea that should not be…

partisan judicial elections and whether, in your opinion, is a better system for choosing state judges. When talking about a state judge selection, the best way to elect a judge is by the Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan. But there are many pros and cons to each side of this choice! The main pro to the Missouri Non-partisan Court Plan is there will be no bias between judges and those they have to rule against in the future. One example of this is if the judges were selected by election like…

Politics is a part of human nature, an unavoidable part. Even though this is a common characteristic among all human beings, how politics are ran differs among each population. This population could be an entire country or that of a small county in Wisconsin, I attended a Waukesha County Town Hall meeting. I learned a lot from this meeting, but what this meeting specifically taught me about American politics was that there is a severe lack of diversity in those who represent us and also those…

Research conducted by Lyn Ragsdale, Dean of Social Sciences at Rice University, shows that “the occurrence of a presidential speech has a significant, positive effect, relative to other variables, on levels of president’s public support” (Ragsdale 1984, 980). In addition, she maintains, “in making speeches, presidents are able to influence public opinion positively. Republican and Democratic presidents alike improve their popularity by addressing the nation” (Ragsdale 1984, 982). In his book…