The Electoral College has been around for centuries and the longer it is around, the more corrupt it becomes. It originally started as a way for the president to be elected by a more knowledgeable party than the general public. This is because; in the 1800s people were not very educated when it came to politics. Since then the Electoral College has become essentially rigged and the only way to fix this issue is to eliminate it. People are controlling the way the Electoral College votes, whether it
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The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution or as most people call it the Second Amendment, has been a point of dispute throughout the American history. Despite all the controversy, the Second Amendment is still defended by a lot of American citizens and politicians. We, as European citizens, ask ourselves why. Therefore it’s time to really get to know the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. When the Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, federalists claimed the
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In All the Way the Presidency is portrayed as a powerless and manipulative position, contrasting to the media portrayal of current day presidents as all-powerful and ultra-refined. Lyndon B Johnson gives the audience a behind the scenes view of the everyday life a president, and it is not what would be expected. His daily tasks did not include barking orders and everyone graciously following his every command. President Johnson was constantly attempting to persuade members of congress, bartering
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dangerous lack of thought process involving the interpretation of counterpoint and filtering for credibility” (Mannes). Groupthink is leading to ridiculous circumstances in the almost daily protests following the 2016 presidential election of Donald J. Trump. Over a year of immersing America in the most toxic election resulted in a large swath of college-age Americans who actually believed, despite the most basic knowledge in government and law, that they could somehow reverse the results of a national
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Illegal immigration has turned into one of the most disputed topics in the United States. Over the years, there has been a marked increase in bias and hate crimes regionally and nationwide against illegal immigrants. Our country’s population is made up of approximately 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants. Over the past and current years, evidence has overwhelmingly shown that immigrants play a vital role in our country’s economic, social, and cultural prosperity. Therefore, responsible social, political
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News reporters should be focused on broadcasting Presidential Election current news to inform, not persuaded their viewers to support their biases political opinions and beliefs. Many of the news reporters have allowed biases thoughts overcome their task to bring the new reports to the general public; in many cases, opinionated ideology surpassed what their ultimate assignment is to accomplish. Even though there are still many voters undecided, it’s not the media outlet responsibility to help make
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Ignorance. For e.g.- Jan 25th, 2016 in Muscatine, Iowa, A Sikh man in a turban was thrown out of Donald Trump’s rally for carrying “Stop Hate” sign. It was a peaceful protest. Trump mistakenly thought he was a Muslim and he added saying “He wasn't wearing one of those hats, was he? Was he wearing one of those?" asked Trump at the rally, likely referring to his red "Make America Great Again" baseball caps. "And he never will. And he never will. And he never will” Without even giving a second thought
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After reading the article, "Hillary’s Popular Vote Holdouts on Collision Course with History," I now believe that the electoral college is a more fairer method to determine the outcome of who will be president, rather than based solely on popular votes (initially, I thought this was the better idea). The reason why I changed my perspective is because I believe that the author brings up a good point, in that both California and New York, both strongly democratic and strongly influential, would almost
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It is the year 2016 and that means another presidential election with new candidates. If you stay engrossed in the debates that are between Clinton and Trump, then you have heard Trump say, “Let’s build a wall”. If you think building a wall is ethical then you probably haven’t heard Lady Liberty’s quote. The Statue of Liberty has a poem embedded into her. The part of the quote that stands out to me is, “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, i lift my lamp beside the golden door!”. How many
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The Electoral College is a group of people appointed by each state who formally elect the president and vice president of the United States. The number of electors is equal to the total number of voting members in the US Congress: 435 representatives, 100 senators and 3 electors from the District of Columbia for a total of 538 electors. Both the democratic and republican candidate try to gain as many electors as they can in every state so that they have more than 270 elector votes, which is just
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