Monday, October 14, 2013

Blog Post 2.2 "Public Opinion & the Govt. Shutdown"

Read the latest public opinion polls from USA Today about the public's opinion of  how elections can be changed in order to solve the problems in Washington.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/14/americans-election-policy-usa-today-bipartisan-policy-center-poll/2983159/

Write a one paragraph summary of the article and answer the following questions.

1. Why would we consider these poll results to be valid?  What do you call the number given by the pollsters?
2. How has California addressed the problem of unfair redistricting?
3. How would candidates for office have to change their approach if they did not have "safe districts"?
4. How would adding independent voters to the party primary electorates change the primaries?
5. How do Democrats and Republicans feel differently about voter ID laws?
6. What proposed reforms could make voting easier? How would each do that?



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