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Secretary Of State Amount Of Time
1,460 wordsDirect democracy is a way for average people like you and I to take care of public issues rather than leaving it up to representatives. Direct democracy can be applied in three different forms. The first is known as the initiative. Regular people, the voters, can take the problems we are facing in society and create laws that may eventually end up on the ballot. First off, there has to be a petition that is developed and sent to the attorney general for approval. Then, within 150 days the petiti...
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War On Drugs Marijuana Laws
1,405 wordsActivists hope ballot questions signal support for marijuana bills By Steve Leblanc, Associated Press, 12 / 5 / 2000 17: 05 BOSTON (AP) When researchers launched the nation's most ambitious heart study 50 years ago, they chose Framingham, a middle-class town west of Boston and cross-section of America. Now supporters of liberalized marijuana laws are hoping voters in this Massachusetts heartland are signaling a fundamental shift in public attitudes about the state's war on drugs. On Election Day...
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The 2000 Presidential Election
1,990 wordsEvery four years it takes place. Us Americans do it. People fought hard for us to have this right. What is it? It's the right to vote. This year happens to be the year of the 2000 presidential election. With what could be the closest election in the history of the United States there are many issues that surround the election. Us Americans are going to vote for whomever we think is going to do the best job of solving these issues. However, before we get to the issues we must first get to the two...
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Voter Turnout Twentieth Century
1,779 wordsAre Voters Fools? Throughout the twentieth century there has been a large debate on the explicit knowledge of the voting public. As unfortunate as it may seem, the political scientists and theorists of our nation have not placed much belief in the knowledge of these people. The voters of America have been criticized in studies and de fragmented in surveys as these political theorists try to answer the un daunting question, are voters fools? The answer is not one single comprehensive study indeed...
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United States Of America President Of The United States
721 wordsThe electoral college of the United States of America should be kept in the way that it has been functioning for at least 200 years. Democracy in the United States nor its equal representation principle has never been affected by the Electoral College. The check and balance principle created by the founding fathers is represented in this electoral system. When voters cast their ballots in a U. S. presidential election, they aren't electing the president directly. The elector members of the Elect...
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Do Modern American Campaigns Advance Democracy
1,996 wordsOf course, campaigns are necessary in any democracy, whether they are simple or complex. Simple campaigns involve only the candidate giving a single speech or even a few speeches, but regardless a campaign still exists. In todays American sense, campaigns are a lot more complex. They involve primaries, conventions, numerous speeches, cross-country travel, and a humongous campaign staff. These campaigns are necessary because they inform the public of what candidates they are voting for in the upc...
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Analysis Of The 2004 Democratic Primaries
1,261 wordsThe primaries are a set of elections in our country that determine the two candidates for the presidential election. Each state holds its own elections for the registered voters, and the candidates from each party are selected. Some states have different primary elections whether they are open or closed. These two terms apply to what kind of voter participation is allowed. Closed primaries allow registered party voters to participate in that partys election whereas the open ones allow any regist...
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Twenty Five Percent Percent Of People
1,943 wordsIn this paper I intend to evaluate the voting habits of the American public. I will look at how race, sex, education level, marital status, income level, current employment status, and age effects whether or not people vote. I am also going to examine which political parties these groups have historically voted for, why they vote for them, how this has changed over the years if it has changed at all, and why it has changed. I believe that from previous voting information you could fairly well pr...
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Presidential Election Registered Voters
1,501 wordsDifferent Kinds of Ballots The debate over the Florida ballots in the presidential election in 2000 began a nationwide interest in the kinds of ballots that have been used in the United States throughout the years. There have been many different tools utilized in voting, with varied efficiency and reliability. This paper will cover what some of these ballots are, as well as discuss some of their strengths and shortcomings. We will look at the history of the use of these different voting methods,...
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Electoral College System Twenty First Century
2,721 wordsUnequal Participation at the Polls The electoral system we have now is Electoral College. The system is not new to United States and has deep history throughout the country. The system forces candidates for president to campaign throughout the country instead of ignoring smaller states and only seeking to dominate the popular vote in the larger states. Candidates are less inclined to offer deals to large population states at the expense of small population states in this way. Also one cannot for...
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Civil Rights Movement 18 Years Of Age
1,506 wordsVoting Rights and Responsibilities The United States of America, we are the champions of the democracy. Why is it then that our society is so inactive in our government? In the last presidential election there was a forty-nine percent voter turnout. In the most important and most publicized of all our elections, less than half of our citizens voted. America has come a long way since its Independence. Throughout her history she has gone through a number of changes. One of these periods in which n...
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Bob Dole Billion Dollars
5,071 wordsPeople understand they cant get all these tax cuts, protect their favorite programs, and balance the budget, says Susan Tanaka speaking on the promises made by presidential candidate Bob Dole to the American public (Gibbs 1996). Bob Dole proposed his tax cut package on Aug. 5, 1996 hoping to entice the public into voting for him in the 1996 presidential elections. Dole focuses his proposal towards social conservatives and supply sider's believing he will give them their link to growth-oriented t...
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Political Parties Null Hypothesis
10,064 wordsFederalism as a Facilitating Practice for Government Cartelization Many federal policies including grants, mandates, and tax expenditures closely resemble the instruments used by cartels to enforce anti-competitive agreements. Is it possible that many federal policies exist not to correct for interstate externalities or enhance equity, but to inhibit interstate competition? The current paper has two main aims: First, to develop an original model of federal-state interaction and political behavio...
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Presidential Nominee Narrow Minded
5,011 wordsImportant Elements of a Campaign Strategy Campaigning for any type of elected office requires a sharp eye for detail in regard to what voters are looking for in a candidate. A campaign strategy should be comprehensive in its efforts to reach as many voters as possible. Yet, without a solid base of ideas from which to expand upon, the message being conveyed can easily be lost or taken out of context. In order for a campaign manager to avoid this blunder from occurring and maximize the candidates ...
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Mc Cains Americas Youth
1,436 wordsSenator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, has had a long and distinguished career in both the military and in politics. A United States Naval Pilot and Captain who received the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, and Purple Heart, McCain then moved onto the House of Representatives and Senate (Biographical Data for John S. McCain). In April of 1999, McCain announced his candidacy for President, stating his mission to restore integrity into the office, reform government, and renew th...
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Make A Difference Young Adults
884 wordsDuring the 60 s, young adults made their presence felt not just by their use of marijuana or weird clothes and hairstyles, but more so because they were intent to make a difference. They protested rallied and marched to any cause they deemed worthy. Furthermore, young adults also realized the importance of voting by taking their issues right to the polls. Unfortunately, times have changed and todays young adults no longer feel the need to make a difference. Todays Generation X has developed a la...
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Interest Groups Political Parties
1,427 wordsPolitical Parties Political parties have become increasingly unpopular and have lost a great amount of power because of it. Interest groups are slowly picking up where parties left behind and are becoming more and more important not only in mobilizing voters, but also in lobbying government officials to aide their cause. In the early 1900 s, parties solely were in charge of the nomination process. A small group of party leaders, also known as a caucus, would choose who would run against the oppo...
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Kennedy Fitzgerald Kennedy
3,993 wordsBlaze Hite Mr. Nelson Modern American Studies, Perionovermber 1996 Theodore C. Sorensen. Kennedy. New York: Harper &# 038; Row, 1965. 783 pp. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in the Boston suburb of Brookline. Kennedy was the son of Joseph P. Kennedy a former ambassador to Great Britain. Kennedy was much like his father, possessing a delightful sense of humor, a strong family loyalty, a concern for the state of the nation, endless vitality and a constant air of confidence no matt...
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Younger Voters Ross Perot
1,452 wordsFor the past 25 years it has been wondered why the young people of America have shared the same apathetic attitude towards politics as the older generation of Americans. Indeed, the issues concerning young voters are just as important as those concerning older voters. Why the newest voters choose to abstain their right has long been studied. While it has been proven that the vote of young people can make or a break an election, most candidates are reluctant to relate themselves to young people. ...
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Third Party Candidates Democrats And Republicans
1,326 wordsMy dad once told me that any boy can grow up to be president. Actually an unspoken truth to this might be that, in America, any boy or girl can grow up to run for president. If you have a desire to change politics, then there is a place in the political world for you to help make a change. Whether it is on a small scale in the local level or the large scale, as in a run for president, you can make a difference. If you desire for large-scale change then a third party might be the place for you. S...
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