" The Electoral College needs to be replaced to fix the current problems not the problems of the past. One of the current problems that is a downfall of the Electoral College is its overrepresentation of the voting power of individuals in the smaller states. ... A candidate could focus and win in the eleven states with the most Electoral College votes and this would not show a distribution of votes. ... Advocates of the Electoral College remark that it keeps candidates from focusing all of their campaigns on the most populated states and ignore the less populated states. ... Voter turnou...

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The presidential election is over and the media is largely focused on the winner: president-elect Barack Obama. ... Yet, within all of the current celebration, there looks to be a dark side. ... Yet, the media seems focused on her. ...

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The current interest rates for borrowing money are very low and it is the perfect time for the government to invest in the future of America. ... This popularity follows suit for some time - with more credit card increases until one of the neighborhood homeowners ˜blows the whistle' on the massive debt that the current president has accrued. The group of homeowners decide to remove the current president and install a new one that promises to better manage it's money. ... Our current infrastructure is crumbling in all places - schools, power plants, hospitals, roads, bridges, e...

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The emphasis each author takes on certain elements guides the reader to understand the current argument over Iraq. ... In addition to these more obvious ways the author implements his bias one can see it by his focus. His focus in the article is way off. ... The reason these words came up so often is because the current issues deal with these terms. ... For this reason he distorts some of the information and focuses on issues that his audience would be more interested in. ...

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The dominate story in today's media focuses on September 11 and the following "War on Terrorism". ... He goes on to write that the Iraqi people have every right to be mistrustful of the current foreign invasion because in the past they have had nothing but bad experiences with America and Britain in the past. ...

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This was the birthplace of the current system of the Electoral College. ... With the small number of political parties it allows for generalized platforms rather than parties focused on specific issues.Using the Electoral College's system states have the ability to select their delegates to the E.C., allowing them to participate in the selection of a president, which in turn maintains the representative form of government to some degree. ... The traditional system of popular voting could be made into a much better system than that which is currently in place, with some minor changes to...

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However, in Gore's campaign he focused largely on changing the qualities viewed by the public as negative to a positive view. ... The differences and significance of the issues should have been the key focus of the Gore campaign since many Americans share his views on the major issues. Experience was another quality that was not focused on enough by the Gore campaign. ... While the Gore campaign did not focus enough on the positive qualities of Al Gore, they did successfully win the popular vote and many of the states that were battle ground states, such as Missouri and Pennsylvania and p...

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In chapters 5 and 6, we see just how long the Bush administration has planned for the current war in Iraq - since 9/11. ... Well, Woodward started out with a Bush-centric focus to begin with, so there isn't any more objectivity lost than what he"d started with. ...

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Interest Groups in respect to the White House essentially lobby for the top personnel of Washington (i.e.: the president, Congress, cabinet members, and the media) to listen to their points of view and to assist in advancing their interests. My role is the President of the National Right to Life Co...

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Innocent lives have been vanished into the thin air, hope has been shattered by fear, and love and happiness has been replaced by fear and sorrow. And all of this has been changed by the reality of just one phrase: War on Terror. This war has not only cost many lives, but it has cost an immense amou...

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A variety of issues from the past can be compared to the current issues that the country is currently facing. ... Current President Obama has already tried to solve this problem once in 2013 and now in 2014. ... This policy emphasizes increasing enforcement resources that will focus on "felons, not families; criminals, not children"(VOA). ... There are currently eleven million immigrants in the country. This policy will focus on helping immigrant parents who have been living in the United States for five years leading to about four million immigrants receiving these new positive be...

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In his bit he references research conducted by the National Election Studies which suggests that most individuals are twice as likely to recognize their incumbent's name (an astounding ninety-percent could recognize their incumbent's name) rather than recall it purely from memory, which he states, "The shift in focus from name recall to name recognition nicely resolves the apparent anomaly of voters favoring incumbents without even knowing who they are" (Jacobson, 123). ... While he does focus heavily on reelection as any congressman would, he does so unknowingly during his...

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(Peterson) Finally one must step back and objectively ask, "should we retain our current policy stance concerning illicit drugs, or is the current drug prohibition policy ineffective and counter productive?" ... The Bush administration sought to focus the brunt of his anti- drug campaign in the United States, which, to Bush, meant attacking and arresting the drug user, rather than focusing on prevention, education and treatment, or interdiction. ...

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From the perspectives of the Clinton's administration, "the focus of our planning for major theater conflict is on deterring and, if necessary, fighting and defeating aggression by potentially hostile regional powers- (II, page 9). ... It appears that currently, the Bush administration is actually applying some of the tactics of the Clinton's foreign policy to address present conflicts. ... However, while the Clinton's foreign policy was more focused on the use of the United States military strength, while the Bush's foreign policy only wanted to use military interventi...

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(Washington Post.com) The other abuse of Patriotism is from those who wish to use the current domestic situation to commit racist acts of violence. ... Perhaps unintentional, it is evident that the recent surge in "patriotic consumption" has focused the public's attention away from the realities and difficulties of the war effort, the likely increase of terrorist attacks and the government's assault on our basic freedoms through the U.S. ...

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The major consequences of such an allocation were to create incentives for major party candidates to focus on the most competitive states in order of size of population, and to prevent third party and independent candidates from having any reasonable chance to win. ... While this is not as accurate as a real direct vote, it is much more accurate than our current general ticket system. ...

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The president is right to remain focused on eradicating terrorism and keeping the people of our nation free from harm. ... Americans over age 65 are much more likely than adults under age 65 to say that they are regular prescription drugs users (82% vs. 49%); that they take three or more prescription drugs regularly (55% vs. 17%); that they currently have more than five drugs in their medicine cabinet (40% vs. 28%); and that they spent $1000 or more out-of-pocket on prescription drugs last year (19% vs. 6%). ...

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In Wilson's first term as president he mainly focused on his agreement called the New Freedom. ... Wilson did not know what to do, but had to move on and focus on America and its people. ... Woodrow Wilson was the first current president to go to Europe. ...

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I am also knowledgeable on current events and how the President compares to other speakers in the world. ... He would look at Congress more when he was looking for support or approval but his eye contact with the camera and the American public also stayed focused. ... I then looked at his speech composition focusing on his main points and examining how he delivered them. ...

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The dispute of illegal immigration in the United States is currently being combated by the U.S. ... When the average middle class citizen finds an issue that they're very fervent about and don't have the means to change the current out come into their favor they make a party. ... She focuses on immigration as a threat to American children and denigrates the values of immigrant families, branding immigrant children as "dumb" and violent.4 It is uncertain how much Dallacroce has actually research and been brought up to speed on both a political and social scale pertaining to ...

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In Truman, David McCullough asks, "Was Harry Truman an ordinary provincial American sadly miscast in the presidency? Or was he a man of above average, even exceptional qualities and character, who had the makings of greatness?" I believe Harry Truman was a man of exceptional qualities and character,...

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Through mainly focussing on accountability to congress, I will assess how in theory the President may have significant powers, but in practice, recent developments limit any leader. ... The current situation has resulted in administration duties being placed outside the president's immediate control. ... (Fisher, 1993, P118) The problem with the current set up is clearly that the President is held to account too easily. ...

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focuses attention even closer on the manner by which the United States government derives its authority to govern its population. ... It must be remembered that at the time of its framing, electricity in its current harnessed form was one hundred years away, at the least. ... However these Agencies have a more narrow focus than the Cabinets. ...

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The FDR Years By William E. Leutchenburg FDR: A President to Remember Out of a Great War, into a Great Depression, and onto a great recovery. Our country was at its worst times then ever. What measures were needed to bring our nation back to economic success that was it was burgeoning into...

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The Common Core Curriculum focuses on development of critical thinking and problem solving that the government believes are needed to be successful and competitive in the modern career world. ... Although common core sounds like it would be a good thing to implement since the education system is currently failing the country and its students, it has not gone as good as the Government had hoped. ...

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