Chelsea, Jesse, James, Jessica

1. Presidential Nominations and Elections Profiling/Searching Chelsea Assing, Jessica Barta Lam, Jesse Levine-Spound, James Thomas

6. The Constitution states that a state has as many electors as it has members of Congress

7. Electors today are really just rubber stamps, meaning that they automatically vote for their party’s candidate

8. In every state the electors are chose by popular vote of the people

10. The candidate with the most electoral votes is declared President. The Constitution states that the candidate with the second most votes becomes the vice president. However, now Presidential candidates choose their own running mates during the elections

12. Electors are not required to vote in accordance with the people of their state by whom they were elected

13. Any election might have to be decided in the House of Representatives

15. The proportional plan has also been proposed. With this plan, each presidential candidate would receive the same share of electoral votes in a state as he received in the state’s popular vote. This fixes the idea of winner takes all.

16. The most common proposal made, and the one that is most widely supported, is the direct popular election. This would get rid of the electoral college completely and provide for a direct popular vote of the people for president

18. Rick Santorum (Republican) -> Supports certain measures taken since 9/11 (opposed by most)

19. Ron Paul (Republican) -> Believes war on terror has nothing to do with civil rights

20. Newt Gingrich (Republican) -> considers ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) destructive to rights, believes rights come from God

21. RJ Harris (Libertarian) -> Constitution applies regardless, apposes discrimination

22. Barack Obama (Democratic) -> Agrees with abundance of public surveillance, against hate/racial crimes and profiling

24. Gary Johnson (Republican) -> Wants the government out of civil lives

25. Mitt Romney (Republican) -> Believes the US is to be equal to all except those who “preach terror”, and those people may be followed into a church or mosque and be dealt with by law.

26. Tom Miller (Republican) -> Defends Constitution & rights

28. Most things in the republican political system is labeled top secret and if you were to leave the administration and “spill the beans” about what you former party were conspiring to do. You are then considered a threat to national security.

30. Historically republicans have always disapproved of interventionist foreign policy actions. An example of this..... republicans opposed Woodrow wilson's intervention in world war II and his attempt to create the league of nations.

31. Republicans have opposed the us involvement in somalia and the balkans a.k.a the Gulf War.

34. Democrats also have a tendency to oppose military involvement.

35. Democrats believe in maintaining security while at the same time respecting human rights.

36. Democrats generally favor in reducing or maintaining defense spending