A. Go to the following website: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance#canda=barack-obama&candb=herman-cain Using the interactive feature, create a comparison between Barack Obama's finances and the finances of the candidate you are researching for your project. Answer the following:
1) Where does your candidate rank among the Republican candidates as far as total campaign contributions?
2) Where are your candidate's strongholds of campaign finance? In other words, where do his or her donors typically live?
3) Looking at the comparison, identify three distinct disadvantages that the Republican challengers will have to face in the general election against Obama. How do these challenges represent incumbency advantage?
B. Free Response Question:
1) The Framers of the United States Constitution created a legislative system that is bicameral. However, it is not just bicameral; the framers also established two houses of distinctly different character and authority.
(a) Discuss two reasons why the framers created a bicameral legislature.
(b) Identify one power unique to the House of Representatives and explain why the Framers gave the House that power.
(c) Identify one power unique to the Senate and explain why the framers gave the Senate that power.
Pedone Rating: EASY
No comments:
Post a Comment