Portfolio Question # 3

Portfolio Question # 3

 

Answer TWO of the following question in detail, with evidence of outside research. Please check your work through before you hand it in.

Portfolio Questions – POLS 100 – Question set # 3

Answer TWO of the following question in detail, with evidence of outside research. Please check your work through before you hand it in.

1. Discuss the impact of Sarah Palin and Joe Biden as Vice Presidential candidates in the 2008 presidential election. Refer to the argument made in the chapter on Bridges as well as your own research about how their nominations were received by the press and the public.
2. How has the Supreme Court become “Politicized” and “Polarized” over the years? Discuss your answer with reference to the article on Bridges as well as your own research. Give examples of cases in which this phenomena seems to manifest and discuss them in relation to the question.
3. Talk about money in Congressional elections. Reference both the book chapter on Bridges and your own, independent research. Is money in elections a good thing/bad thing? What does money do to the electoral process? Explain your answer in detail.
4. Discuss the rise of ISIS and the American response to the situation. How did it begin? How has it changed? What do you think will be the end result of the situation currently being played out in the Middle East? Use independent research.
5. Discuss the polarization of the media in the last twenty years. How has how we receive news changed? Are these positive changes? What has been the effect of the 234 news cycle on politics, politicians, voters and democracy?

 

 

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