Voter registration

The president’s party’s consistent voters within the presidential elections might not come out to vote as passionately as they might had they not won the presidential election. Therefore, fewer voters who support the president’s party, voting within the midterm elections might cause the opposing party to achieve a majority and win seats from the president’s party.…

This current election season, millions have already come out to vote in the primaries and caucuses all around the nation, turnout has increased and everyone seems to be enthusiastically choosing a candidate. But there is one thing that voters going to the polls may not realize; contrary to popular belief, citizens of The United States have never directly voted for a President or Vice President. Instead, they vote for electors to vote for a specific candidate. Additionally, the President and Vice…

Representation of Public Opinion: Probability and Nonprobability Survey Literary Digest had correctly predicted the presidential election of four candidates using a straw poll. In the 1936 election Literary Digest predicted Republican Alfred Landon would beat incumbent Roosevelt by a landslide. The poll used data from its own users, a list of registered automobile owners, and telephone users. The Digest population was two things; wealthy in the middle of the Great Depression and Republican. The…

run for office in the history of the United States. This is because she is the first woman to ever be nominated as a major parties’ candidate. She also has an immense chance to win the election, due to her ability to appeal to a broad audience of voters through various advertisements. Although her advertisements span a wide array of topics I am only going to focus on a select few. These advertisements focus on her main demographic, which is women. These advertisements, titled "Cheryl", "Alexis",…

were quick to point to the obvious increase in turnout from the rural sections of America, specifically the Rust Belt states Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Ohio. While there certainly was an ethnocentrically driven increase in white voter turnout throughout the working class regions of these key states, the more significant factor contributing to Hillary Clinton’s defeat was the lack…

working, and possibly Democrat. This is why Republicans would suggest that the timing of this law being passed was not a coincidence. The right for felons to vote may increase the number of voter turnout and the number of those who are able to vote. Therefore, this law may have a good impact on the voter turnout overall. There have been different opinions about the felons’ voting rights, but the fact that a majority of them may be Democrats makes those of the opposite party hesitant about…

Political Culture of Malheur County To understand the political culture of a community, city, county, state, or even country-- one must first have a firm handle on the principles used to identify a political culture. As political culture stands, we have two models used to identify the bulk of the citizens in the political world. These two concepts can be labeled conservative and progressive. The conservative model correlates with a traditionalistic perspective, meaning, this view is best…

Intersectionality is the interconnected ways by which various individuals. Kimberle Williams Crensha discrimination based on social differences with given societies. Far often many view issues as being singular. However, as more complex studies take a look in to solving these issues, the more researchers see that these issues are very much so connected with each other. For example, if an African-American poor woman is experiencing discrimination in life these troubles are not either linked to…

Fighting Voter Suppression Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising the right to vote. As states keep passing voter suppression laws, our voting rights remain being attacked. Many states, California for example, make their citizens believe that after any contact with the criminal justice system means they have lost their right to vote. The whole reason for making people believe this is so people of color will…

On November 5th, 1958 Jennings Randolph took to office as a Senator of West Virginia. Senator Randolph 's career is expressed in the limelight of many younger American citizens. This is because Randolph dedicated his time in office to lower the age requirement to vote. Randolph thought that if 18 years older were old enough to be drafted into the army and fight for their country, then they should be old enough to vote for those trying to have a seat in any form of American government. Rejection…