Graphic Analysis

Political Parties
Conservative- Liberal, Liberal- Consrvative;there just two words but when looking more in depth of whats behind the two there a world apart. So although the two political parties have many differences there are FEW simularties. (emphasis on the few)

• First both conservative and liberal ideologies hold family up to the responsibility of raising children to be good citizens. Love and respect are displayed between parents and children. Each side is raising their children by instilling qualities that lead to active members of society. The families of each political spectrum are raising their children to have vocations in order to be productive members who contribute to their society.
• The current academic world employs both the learning emphasis of the liberal side of the spectrum and the skill sets of the conservative side of the spectrum. In other words current educational practices involve reliance on asking questions, relating and co-operating with others( left leaning),  while also promoting succeeding, competing and individualism(right leaning).
• The issues that both ideologies support within 10% points are gay rights, God and unmarried sex. God has always been a concept that has been deeply rooted in the American tradition for both liberal and conservative. Conservatives have developed more left leaning tendencies on some social issues, such as gay rights and unmarried sex.

 Whether it be in raising children, in contributing to productive vocations or in shared values; there are simulatires that rise from the pile of differences that make up the two parties.

Polling

Polling

In every presidency election there are die heart voters that are either solely democratic or solely republican. There are also the “in-betweeners” these voters are wishy washy and can sway back and forth, these votes are important to please because it makes up nearly 60% of votes. Now there’s the question; should the candidate try and advertise themselves to the extremist form the other side? In my opinion, no, I think it is not worth the damage it could create for their loyal voters. Now it’s up to the candidate to be abrasive and captivating with his/her voters.  Lastly, there are the first time voters who are right out of high school and are swayed by family, friends, and media. It’s important to capture their attention and votes because they will be the future generations in voting. In this case Mitt Romney's campaign should be aimed to focus on specific groups or categories of people that he can sway in his direction. According to the exit polls form the New York Times (1992- 2008) there are a few main groups that are trusted republican voters who will vote for Mitt Romeny no matter what; Rural areas, all protestants, and some college education. Also ages 30 to older and men are fairly loyal to the Republican Party. These groups have been consisting voted for the republican group of the democratic group. I believe high school, college, and college graduates are really important to focus on as well because that is such a large group of people and according to the poll more years than not they voted republican. Another back and forth group is women and white race. They have been on the border of republican and democratic every year swaying one way to the other. These indecisive votes are what make a candidate win.

Founding Fathers

The powers of the President have strayed very far from the original Constitution but I believe that they would still be comfortable with their current state of power.

When Eisenhower brought the Military in to help the Little Rock Nine. This was a good example of the Executive Power because if Eisenhower did not use this power then schools might have never been desegregated. This was a key moment in American history and is shown by how many books and movies have been made on the subject and how much importance is put on it during history classes and the Founding Fathers would have been proud.

Another example is with President Nixon and the Watergate Scandal, I believe that he did have to give up the tapes although everything said in the oval office is supposed to be secret because of the severity of the scenario. He told CREEP to break into the Democratic Headquarters and spy on them which is completely unethical and probably illegal. He did not have the right to do this or keep the tapes.

Lastly, George W Bush used the executive powers when it came to the war in Afghanistan. He used his executive power to kidnap people, use warrant-less wire taps, and use questionable interrogation tactics. He did all this to "Keep America safe." This seems like it has gone a little far from what the Founding Fathers would've wanted, but it was all important in keeping our country safe and therefore is normally helpful and successful.

Too many or too few rights?

Our Rights

I think we have to many rights, But i think the law knows how to work

around them in certain scenarios. Making us actually have less rights.

For instance Searches and Seizures, the law has to present a warrant

to you in order to search your things, but the warrant has to lay out

exactly what they are searching. In some situations the law actually

found other illegal activities & had taken, like drug paraphernalia,

weapons etc. Then being tried in court & the judge most times would

say, your fourth amendment had been violated, and charges would be

dropped. But other times they had know choice to arrest a person for

vigorous illegal acts, even when there right was being violated.

Another example would be the first amendment, Freedom of Speech, but

you really don't have absolute freedom of what you can say. Like at

the airport you wouldn't want to say something about terrorists, it

scares other people and the authority has no choice but to consider

you as a threat. In schools, you can't say certain things to your

teachers, & the same goes for them. So the government works around

this amendment by saying you can say what-ever you want, but in

reality you can't.

The last example, is second amendment, the Right to Bare Arms, we now

have the right to conceal carry, but in a lot of stores they are

putting up signs before you walk in, saying you cannot conceal carry

in this place of business. for example; the situation at Kwik trip,

the man defended himself while conceal carrying, even though Kwik trip

was a place where you could no bare arms. But in the end Kwik trip

dropped the charges on the man because he protected himself and the

store. Even though he was breaking a law, he was considered a hero.

This is why i believe we have to many rights, but in the end we don't

have enough with how the court works around them. Even though in some

cases the charges should be dropped, we have a law and we can't keep

making exceptions for people.

Congress and the Budget Process

  I think the reason its so difficult is because the more important
things like health care benefits and social security are really
important to people. But it also doesn't help us pull out of national
debt. And some of the little things like wildlife funding and
searching planets, isn't something we normally think about on a
regular basis, but if we end it completely we save money, but we can't
just end that. Because, then its taking away millions of jobs
for people and other research that we will need to look at.
      I think the factors that a member of Congress must consider
when prioritizing budgetary decision, is to look at the most important
things like health care, social security and the military. Even though
it doesn't help us save money or get out of debt, its something we
NEED and something the Congress always needs to consider. Because as
we get older, things happen to our bodies that we simply cannot
control, and probably cannot afford. As, we all get older I think its
nice to know that the Government can help you out to a certain degree.
Same with your social security, you work your whole life, having money
put aside once you are retired, so you can live off it. But if the
government takes that away there are going to be a lot more sick and
homeless elderly people. And that's something that cannot happen, its
unfair and cruel. Also we need to keep funding the military, for one,
it has opened up millions of job opportunities. And it helps keep
America safe knowing that if something were to happen we have a great
army to fall back on, and or feel protected from danger striking.
 Overall, I do believe the Congress has to make tough decisions,they shouldn't
take the most important ones out. The agian, different issues are
 imoprtant to differnent people so finding what id better for the country and the
people that work hard is what they need to look at.