Civics 2020 by Nathaniel Rufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3 Word wall en-us 2020-09-24 13:11:26 UTC 2025-11-15 10:27:25 UTC hello@padlet.com Partisan nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/775635666 A Partisan is a committed member of a political party or army. In multi-party systems, the term is used for politicians who strongly support their party's policies and are reluctant to compromise with their political opponents.

This articular is about the four-way race for North Little Rock mayor and bickering has broken out about politicking for one of the candidates, Tracy Steele, who lost a runoff to Mayor Joe Smith in an earlier mayoral race.

]]> 2020-09-24 13:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/775635666 Battle Ground States nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/797452655 In American politics, the term swing state refers to any state that could reasonably be won by either the Democratic or Republican presidential candidate by a swing in votes. These states are usually targeted by both major-party campaigns, especially in competitive elections.


In this article it explains that The 2020 presidential race will be decided by voters in more than a dozen competitive states, where Joe Biden and Donald Trump will focus their efforts to win the 270 electoral votes needed to reach the White House. In the interactive diagram below, try building your own coalition of states, which are organized according to Cook Political Report ratings, to see potential outcomes.]]> 2020-10-02 13:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/797452655 Political Ideology nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/813726605 In social studies, a political ideology is a certain set of ethical ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class or large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order.

This article explains Inequality prospers when successes of advantaged group members (e.g., men, whites) get more attention than equivalent successes of disadvantaged group members (e.g., women, blacks). What determines whose successes individuals deem worth promoting vs. those they ignore? Using hundreds of thousands of tweets from the 2016 Olympics, we show that liberals are much more likely than conservatives to shine a spotlight on black and female (vs. white and male) US gold medalists. Two further experiments provide evidence that such differential amplification of successful targets is driven by a motivation—higher among liberals—to raise disadvantaged groups’ standing in service of equality. We find that liberals drive differential amplification more than conservatives and establish a behavioral mechanism through which liberals’ egalitarian motives manifest

]]> 2020-10-08 13:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/813726605 Opinion Poll nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/832202514 Public opinion consists of the desires, wants and thinking of the majority of the people. It is the collective opinion of the people of a society or state on an issue or problem. ... For the first time, it became important what people thought as forms of political contention changed.


This article shows  this crucial swing state is used to dramatic electoral disputes, a result of its extreme political polarization.
With the Florida vote often divided almost exactly in half between Democrats and Republicans, election outcomes may depend on small variations of support for either candidate among the multiple groups of the state's vast and diverse electorate.
This year, three of these groups are attracting particular attention. Voting patterns among Cuban-Americans, senior citizens and former felons could well define who wins in Florida, and have an outsize influence on deciding who will be in the White House next year.
]]> 2020-10-15 13:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/832202514 Congressional District nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/844561075 A congressional district is an electoral constituency that elects a single member of a congress. Countries with congressional districts include the United States, the Philippines, and Japan. A congressional district is based on population, which, in the United States, is taken using a census every ten years.

This areticle is about SALT LAKE CITY — Burgess Owens, the Republican challenger in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, is leading Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams by a single percentage point in the latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll results released Monday.

The poll found that 46% of likely voters in the 4th District would vote for Owens if the election were held today, compared to 45% for McAdams, Utah’s only Democratic member of Congress. Just 5% said they are not sure who’ll they vote for, and a total of 4% favor third-party candidates.

Conducted Oct. 12-17 by independent pollster Scott Rasmussen for the Deseret News and the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of 800 likely voters in the 4th District, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

]]> 2020-10-20 12:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/844561075 Ballet Question nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/865556604 A ballot measure is a piece of proposed legislation to be approved or rejected by eligible voters. Ballot measures are also known as "propositions" or simply "questions". Ballot measures differ from fewer legislation passed by representative democracies; ordinarily, an elected legislature develops and passes laws.

This article explains that people voting this fall have the option to change how Bay Staters do so in the future.A “yes” vote on Question 2 would implement a ranked-choice, or “instant runoff” voting process for state and congressional elections here. Under such a system — which has been adopted by the state of Maine, as well as numerous cities nationwide — voters would be able to rank as many candidates as they want in order of preference. Vote talliers first look at all of the first-place votes, and, if someone has a majority, the election stops there and that person wins, as is the case right now. But if no candidate garnered more than 50%, the bottom vote-getter is eliminated, and all of the ballots that went to them are allocated to the voters’ second-place choices. If still that gets no one above 50%, the process repeats, eliminating one candidate per round until there are only two candidates left, at which point the one with the most votes wins.

]]> 2020-10-27 13:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/865556604 Exit Poll nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/897673095 2020-11-06 14:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/897673095 Inauguration Day nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/1106458938 The inauguration of the president of the United States is a ceremony to mark the commencement of a new four-year term of the president of the United States. The inauguration takes place for each new presidential term, even if the president is continuing in office for a second term.

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is about to become President Biden, will soon take the oath of an office he has sought for more than 30 years, but there will be no crowd filling the National Mall to celebrate the moment.]]> 2021-01-20 16:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/1106458938 confirmation hearings nathanielrufo https://padlet.com/nathanielrufo/ctb0kpn9iyuv6ff3/wish/1159612479 Meetings held by the Senate to gather information about candidates for federal office nominated by the president of the United States.


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