Electoral Process
« Previous EntriesA House Expanded?
Monday, September 21st, 2009Should we expand the House of Representatives? Is the system that we have under the current constitution fair? Why should a citizen in Montana have so much more weight in the House and Senate than a citizen of Texas? Once again, we see the battle between America the democracy and America the republic. What’s the [...]
Presidential PowerPoints
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Your test is on Monday.
Please review chapters 6, 7, 8, 13, and 14 for this test.
Election day is Wednesday!!!
Unit 4 2 The Role Of The Mass Media
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Unit 4 3 Voting And Voter Participation
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Unit 4 4 The Election Process
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RNC Chairman vs. Rush Limbaugh
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Today it appears our buddy Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee has made it into the news!
He noted on CNN’s “D.L. Hughley Breaks the News” that he was the leader of the Republican party, not infamous radio host Rush Limbaugh. He also took the time to mention that Rush is an ‘entertainer,’ whose [...]
What the Election Would Look Like if it Was Decided by: [Fill In the Blank]
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008This is a pretty neat site that shows us what the Electoral Map would have looked like this year if only women voted, or men, or people over 65, etc, etc, etc.
The information is of little practical use – but it’s quite fascinating for you Government junkies!
Click here for: Hypothetical Election Maps!
According to CNN exit [...]
Challenged Ballots: You Decide
Thursday, November 20th, 2008The Senate race in Minnesota STILL isn’t decided!
The race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat and former comedian Al Franken was too close to call after the votes were counted. In fact, after over 2 MILLION votes were counted, the difference was less than 300 votes.
LESS THAN 300 VOTES!!!
(Don’t ever let anyone EVER tell [...]
Obama Wins
Thursday, November 6th, 2008In case you have been living in a cave and your only source of news is MrOsman.com – Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. He landed the 270 (and more) electoral college votes that he needed.
Were your electoral college predictions correct?
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InTrade’s Electoral Predictions
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MSNBC’s Election Day Widget
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Perhaps this can help ona few last minute ideas for your projects.
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Approaching the witching hour
Friday, October 31st, 2008According to FirstRead:
We now have a good idea of where the two campaigns will spend their last four days until Election Day. Today, Obama campaigns in Iowa and Indiana, and in between the events he heads home to Chicago to spend part of Halloween with his daughters. On Saturday, he travels to Nevada (Henderson), Colorado [...]
Barack ‘Prime Time’ Obama
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Tonight at 7:00 Barack Obama will show a 30 minute infomercial on NBC, CBS, FOX, Univision, BET, MSNBC and TV One.
This will be his ‘closing argument’ for the campaign that ends in 6 days.
The address will be a ‘block’ address, on all of those channels at once. Fox has even agreed to post-pone the World [...]