Political science:
Description:
Part 1 (2 pages):
Overview:
Your task is to do the following:
You have been hired as a campaign consultant for ‘Candidate Smith’ to help get ready for the 2016 Presidential election. In order to advise this candidate, you will need to create an analysis of the 2012 Presidential Election and what make Obama so successful. You will be comparing the Obama and Romney media campaigns, analyzing the demographics/political structure of 2 swing states and writing your final recommendations in the form of a two page memo to the Smith Campaign based upon your research finding
1. Analysis of campaign videos
2. Analysis of the statistics of the two swing(IOWA , FLORIDA) states you chose
3. Summary of the information about Obama and Romney’s media campaign
4. Citations in Chicago format
Second part (1 page)
Overview:
This week you’ve gotten an idea about how a bill becomes a law. Sometimes it’s a quick process, while other times bills may not make it very far or may take a long time to pass. (There are currently almost 8000 bills or resolutions now before Congress!)
This assignment is meant to get you to see a little bit more about the process of passing a law.
Create a short summary of the goal of this law in your own words.
Use the following following questions to summarize how your legislation got passed:
Who introduced the legislation? What party do they belong to?
When did it go to Committee? What Committees did it go to? How many Democrats or Republicans are on each Committee? (Check out the Committees link).
When did it pass the House? If the information is available, how many Democrats and Republicans voted for or against this legislation?
How many didn’t vote (abstained)? (Check out the House Votes on Passage link on the bill overview page.)
When did it pass the Senate? If the information is available, how many Democrats and Republicans voted for or against this legislation?
How many didn’t vote (abstained)?