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Do Presidential Debates Sway Voters?
- by Garret Jacobs
- 2 months ago
- 100 comments
On September 26, 2016 Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump went head to head at the first presidential general election debate. This is one of the most watched television programs of every election cycle, with many viewers seeing it
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Are Referendums Bad For Democracy?
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
2016 was the year of controversial referendums. In Colombia, voters rejected a peace deal that would have brought an end to half a century of war. In the United Kingdom, voters opted to leave the European Union, the first country
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Why Are U.S. Presidential Elections So Long?
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
In April 2015, 576 days before election day, Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the 2016 presidential race. In the 2008 election, she did so an entire 654 days in advance. By comparison, in Japan, candidates are limited to a
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Who Are The Third Party Presidential Candidates?
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
The 2016 US Presidential race is inching closer to the finish line, with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump presumed to be the parties’ nominees. But a May 2016 poll suggested that more than half of Americans are dissatisfied
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Breaking Down How Donald Trump Won The U.S. Election
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
On November 9th, 2016, around 2:30am Eastern Time, Donald Trump won enough electoral votes to become the President-elect of the United States of America. Trump’s victory was unprecedented, unexpected, and for many on both sides of the political spectrum, unbelievable.
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Democratic Party Beliefs
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
- 4 comments
The Democratic Party has been one of the two main political parties in the United States since 1828. What makes someone a Democrat? What principles do they uphold? Since the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828, the Democratic Party has
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These Are The Last Five Communist Countries
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
Since Russia became the first communist state in 1917, dozens of other countries have converted their governments to approximate communism. At one point, during the Cold War, the world was ideologically split between capitalist and communist political philosophies, but today
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What The World Thinks Of The U.S. Election
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
The 2016 election has proven to be one of the most unexpected and divided elections in recent history. But outside of the United States, there seems to be less of a divide over the two candidates, and more of a
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The Nordic Country Secretly Negotiating World Peace
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
- 100 comments
For nearly as long as civilization has been fighting wars, it has been making peace. One of the earliest recorded peace treaties was engraved into a stone wall more than three thousand years ago, ending a war between the Egyptians
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Why Jainism Is The World’s Most Peaceful Religion
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
- 100 comments
In October 2016, a thirteen year old girl in India died after completing a 68-day religious fast. The girl and her family were devout followers of Jainism, which celebrates a lifestyle of radical self control and restriction. This time it
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