AP GOV: Deconstructing Politics in America

Deconstructing Election in America Mr. Dalton also used this picture! In our two-party political system, most Americans believe that voting for a third party will essentially throw away their vote. As a result, most of the campaigning for an American election focuses on advancing either the Republican or Democratic party; this causes Americans to almost always vote Republican or Democratic and perpetuates the two-party system. The results of an American election almost always show that it is useless to vote for a third party which causes people to only consider voting Republican or Democratic. Because the winning presidential candidate from the 2016 election did not win the popular vote, many Americans became dissatisfied with our election system and the electoral college. Most Americans voted democratic however, the electoral college mostly voted republican. The election was also a testament to increased political polarization between the two parties. The two major c...

CNN, Fox News, and the Texas Church Shooting *Picture of authorities handling the aftermath is taken from AP Yesterday morning, Patrick Kelley shot up a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. He killed 26 people, including his grandmother-in-law. Authorities found him dead however, it is uncertain how exactly he died. It was either from a self-inflicted gunshot wound or from the man who followed him from near the site of the shooting and shot him. This was the worst mass shooting to ever happen in Texas. To compare CNN and Fox News, I dissected articles that they wrote today about the shooting. Here is some background information from the Pew Research Center's chart for Ideological Placement of Each Source’s Audience: 1) CNN’s audience is more consistently liberal than conservative. 2) Fox New’s audience is more consistently conservative than liberal. I chose an article about the shooting to analyze from each news source: CNN's " Texas gunman killed ...