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How to Increase Voter Turnout for More Inclusive Elections

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No matter which candidate you support, it’s easy to see that for elections to be truly fair and inclusive, the more eligible voters who cast their ballots the better. Finding ways to increase voter turnout isn’t just a job for politicians and government officials, though. There’s a lot the average person can do to help encourage their fellow citizens to vote. Empowering voters through education Many people opt not to vote simply because they feel their vote doesn’t really count … Continue reading →

What is the Libertarian Party?

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In the United States, the two-party system has been so all-encompassing of American politics as to nearly obliterate all traces of an option. Recent criticism has been directed at how the two parties are actually the same one, with words like “Republocrat” and “Demican” used as derogatory names for the two main parties. However, the system has been on the edge of accepting the Libertarian party into the mainstream. It has teetered tantalizingly close, without going all the way, and … Continue reading →

Presidential Elections

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Presidential elections are one of the major events in the United States of America.  Every four years Americans go to the polls and cast their vote for the most powerful person in the whole of the United States. The presidential election is mainly held as outlined in U.S. Constitution, but every state could have its own separate rules.The person who is selected as the candidate for the president will be selecting his/her own vice president. They both will be getting … Continue reading →

Holding Our Politicians Accountable

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As all Federal officeholders and government employees are required to take an oath of office that states that they will “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” it can be reasonably concluded that when allowing an assault on the Constitution to occur, these “representatives” will have violated their oath of office. They should be removed from their position of authority as soon as possible and if appropriate, prosecuted to the fullest extent … Continue reading →

Election News: How to Find Unbiased Election Coverage

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Finding elections news coverage isn’t too difficult. In fact, even several months before elections, it seems like all you hear about are the candidates and their thoughts on the issue of the moment. Of course, just because there is an abundance of news on the upcoming elections, that doesn’t mean the first thing you come across in the paper or on the TV is really useful, unbiased coverage of what matters most. If you’re looking at the mainstream media, you’re … Continue reading →

The Internet Influence on Elections

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United States Presidential candidates in 2016 had a growing factor to address: the increased usage of the Internet. Fully half the people on Earth are going online now, and the United States is one of the most wired countries in the world. First there are the blogs. Big-ticket bloggers like Wonkette, DailyKos, and Little Green Footballs have replaced newspapers and magazines as the sounding board for public opinion. Most web users are more likely to get their news from the … Continue reading →

Does the Mainstream Media Influence American Elections?

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Here in the U.S., there’s an entire industry devoted to influencing the outcomes of elections, actions, policies, or decisions of officials.  Professional lobbyists are people whose business is trying to influence legislation, regulation, or other government decisions, actions, or policies on behalf of a group or individual who hires them. It’s partially this process that allows well funded deep state corporate interests to push laws through Congress that benefit and protect them. Lobbying is done by many types of people, … Continue reading →

Understanding the Electoral College

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The ground shook in 2000 as the cries of outrage rang across the United States. “What do you MEAN the popular vote didn’t win!?!?!” One could hardly blame the citizens for being shocked; it’s not something that happens often.  Until recent years, the last time this happened was in 1888!  The Electoral College vote had over-ridden the popular vote. George Bush went into office in 2000… by the grace of just five electoral votes, despite having gotten 543,816 fewer popular … Continue reading →

Throw the Bums Out!

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What would you do If you owned a company and none of your employees listened to you, they lied to you, didn’t do the jobs you gave them to do, and in fact, were actually working for your competition and selling your company down the river as fast as they could? I don’t think you’d keep them on and give them a raise! Well, that’s exactly what we’ve been doing, only in this case, your company is our Federal Government, … Continue reading →

Why the United States is Not a Democracy

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The United States is not a Democracy? What an outrageous claim to make! Or so it would seem… In fact, the United States of America is actually a Republic. The other terms bandied about amongst political scientists are “Representative Democracy” and “Constitutional Republic”. And this isn’t just a dictionary-zealot splitting hairs here; there are very important distinctions between a pure Democracy and what we have in the USA. And confusing the issue can actually lead to gross mistakes. For instance, … Continue reading →