While Obama did take the $30k and under voters at a 62.7% clip Romney’s 34% the other categories gave me some interesting information. While the President did win the $30k-$59999 category, the margin was much closer than I thought it would be with Obama garnering 50% of the vote to Romney’s 47.2%. Given the margin for error in these types of stats this could almost be considered a victory for the Romney camp. The surprising numbers that I found came in the two upper income brackets where the numbers were a lot different than I anticipated. In the $60k-$99999 category, Romney held a 51.3% to 45.3% advantage over Obama.
Recent research has suggest that the senate has now become the more moderate house. Jeff Flake, a previous congressman but now senator, was one of the most conservative members in the house, and According to DW-Nominate scores, which look at a member of Congress’s roll call votes, he was in the 98th percentile for conservatism among House Republicans in his final year in the chamber. However, Flakes election somewhat changed in view point, he now became a moderate, and he wasn't the only one, Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada was in the 80th percentile for conservatism among House Republicans in the 112th Congress but in the 30th percentile for conservatism among Senate Republicans in the 113th Congress. There were a number of other as well but whats interesting about this is that moderates in senate still seem to have influence, the huge variety of ideologies in a states somewhat force moderate to live on, solely on the fact of re-election. The number of moderate in the senate, outweigh that of the tea party caucus, 3-1.
Another financial strength is their low management and general expenses which are only 5.5% of their total expenses and 5.4% of their total revenue. This is much lower than those of the opera which are 14% of total expenses and 12% of total revenue. Yet another financial strength is their endowment fund, which was $10 million in January of 2002. Additionally, the symphony only draws 5% from its endowment fund to cover expenses. A financial weakness of the Utah Symphony is its performance and contribution revenues.
More residents now fall into the 25-44 age bracket; the median age is 33.9 years (STATS Indiana, 2011). Population under the age of 18 years is 25.2% and above 65 years is 10.9% (U.S. Census, 2013). Indianapolis is nearly divided in half for female (51.7%) and male (48.3%) in its population (STATS, 2012). As of 2011, the per capita personal income for Marion County was $38,309, which is about $2,500 more than the state average, ranking the county 12th in the state. When looking at the median household income of $39,957 for the year of 2011, the ranking drops to 78th out of 92 counties (STATS, 2012).
Identify the important features of the policymaking system and explain how pubic policies are the choices that government makes – and declines to make-in response to political issues. 4. Understand the nature of democratic government and traditional democratic theory, and the key questions concerning democracy. 5. Distinguish between the three contemporary theories of American democracy and politics (pluralist, elite and class, and hyperpluralist) and identify some of their strengths and weaknesses.
As people were not able to have a “connection” towards the candidates, they felt outcaste to what was really happening. “One of the great contributions expected of television lay in its presumed capacity to inform and stimulate the political interest of the American electorate. (Source A)” It also decides on whether or not the network company decides to broadcast certain interviews the way they were interviewed. All the potential is there for television to help inform the American public with the promised contributions to the country. The news source needs to help make the broadcasted presidential debate more about the issues and less about the image.
97.5% B. 5% C. 2.5% D. 95% Reset Selection Question 19 of 40 2.5 Points A poll of 1,068 adult Americans reveals that 52% of the voters surveyed prefer the Democratic candidate for the presidency. At the 0.05 significance level, test the claim that more than half of all voters prefer the Democrat. A. Reject the null hypothesis.
First, when the United States conducts relations abroad and appears divided, allies are less likely to trust its promises and enemies are more likely to predict its weaknesses. [71] Second, elite opinion has a significant impact on the public’s perspective of foreign policy. [71] In contrast to problems such as unemployment, inflation and crime, where elite viewpoints are not as influential, Americans are less informed of overseas engagements. [70][71][72] While a difference of viewpoints between political parties is a foundational aspect of a democratic political system, political polarization has exacerbated this divergence as “it was not inevitable that foreign policy would become, as it has, the single most polarizing aspect of American politics.”[73] Subsequently, the United States currently does not have any fundamental agreement on foreign policy and there is a basic discord about the United States’ function in the
The candidates themselves complain that it distracts voters from the issues. Why, then, does negative campaigning continue? Some would say, because negative advertisements have been a fixture of political campaigning for more than 200 years. Others believe voters are swayed just as much by their emotional reaction as by their reason. Over the years, the tactics have changed as shrewd analysts and campaign managers have designed ways to maximize the impact of a message by taking the focus off of the
People vote for electors, and those electors elect the president. The problem with this is that someone can win the presidency without winning the popular vote. Majority of Americans could have voted for President X, but President Y could still win. One recent example of this occurring is in the 2000 election, Bush v. Gore. “In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote in the election, with 50,992,335 votes to 50,455,156 votes for George W. Bush.” (http://www.deseretnews.com/top/1093/9/2000-George-W-Bush-vs-Al-Gore-10-of-theclosest-presidential-elections-in-United-States-history.html) Al Gore had about half of a million more votes than George Bush.