Voter turnout

democratic footprint nationwide, as they will shape judicial decisions for generations to come. “Democrats [also] have a narrow edge in the race for Pennsylvania 's U.S. Senate seat, with Katie McGinty topping incumbent Pat Toomey 49% to 46% among likely voters, just inside the poll 's margin of error” (Agiesta, 2016). It also does not hurt that the current Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, is a democrat from the Electric City Scranton, Pennsylvania, a city about 30 minutes from my…

see the way millennials are driving comprehensive discussions on gender, women’s rights, and the rights of people of color. But despite this fact, voter turnout among the young is still dismal. If they were to receive a comprehensive education on the importance of voting while they were still in highschool, this would be…

first election a citizen is able to participate in, than you may lose that voter as a drop-out for their rest of their lives. (SOURCE) The IRPP says “we know that the decline in turnout was due almost entirely to the failure of those reaching voting age in the last decade to vote in numbers comparable to earlier generations”. (SOURCE) On the whole the interest of young and old people aligns with one another but the younger voters are less likely to be partisan because they rarely identify with…

America is the land of the free and the home of the brave and has been since our founding fathers established this great country. What makes America great is the ability of the people to do what they want without infringement of the government. This natural right to freedom of choice is what keeps the people satisfied with their government. Voting in the United States should not be mandatory because it would take away some of the people’s freedom, would not force uneducated or ignorant people to…

movement scored various legislative and judicial victories against racial discrimination, one of its biggest individual victories in this category was the end of voter discrimination. The removal of laws that deterred African Americans from voting had a great impact on many communities. In many places, the African American voter turnout went from one digit percentages…

PART I: THE CURRENT STATE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND PARTY PARTY HISTORY Parties were originally formed in the 1830s in order to hold the constitutional presidency accountable to a highly decentralized system, but since the creation of parties, presidents have become dependent on them for both campaigning and governing (Milkis and Rhodes 2009, 1-26). In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, presidents have used the support of their party members in Congress to establish programs that…

that. This was one of the first times a majority of younger voters sympathized and felt a connection with Barack Obama’s legislation. His ideals on health and education reform rang a bell with the public. It also had about 131 million people vote or roughly 61 percent of the United States population . That was the most in forty years. The game changed because the young African American Senator produced the widest range of voter turnout regardless of race, age or nationality in the history of the…

Every four years, citizens of the United States of America choose their next president based off a unique system known as the electoral college. The way that this system works is interesting and is confused easily in the general public. In early November, when citizens go to the polls, they are not voting for the president directly, rather they are voting for their individual states to cast its electoral votes towards a certain presidential candidate. In the forty-eight of the fifty states where…

do. Annys Shin, author of Takoma Park 16-year-old savors history-making moment at the polls stated that “the result won’t be worth the time and effort the city devoted to the issue. Nor will it do much to achieve the larger goal of getting younger voters engaged in politics.” The goal of having teens vote is to get them more engaged in politics. However, if there are little to no teens voting, the diligent work of the council would have been for nothing. Teens are very busy struggling with high…

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…