Quarter 2 Exam Review

1. What is the role of a political party in the American political system?
2. What are the most important parties? What issues does each support?
3. What are the "third parties" in American politics? What does each party support?
4. Do third parties have equal access to voters? Should they have equal access to voters? Explain.
5. Name each of the Republican candidates. For each, be able to describe his background, his qualifications, and his approximate place in the polls.
6. What is an interest group? What role do interest groups play in American politics?
7. What is a lobbyist? What role do lobbyists play in American politics?
8. Name and describe the main lobbying tactics.
9. What is the Occupy Wall Street movement? What are its goals? Do you agree with it? Explain.
10. Name and describe the constitutional powers of the president.
11. What is delegation of power, in the context of the American presidency?
12. Name and describe the inherent powers of the president?
13. What is a presidential veto? Why is this an important power? How can a veto be overcome?
14. What is an executive order? What does it enable the president to do?
15. What was the Illinois Pollution Control Board? What were its goals? What groups presented before it? What were their goals?

Quarter 2 Exam Review

1. What is the role of a political party in the American political system?
2. What are the most important parties? What issues does each support?
3. What are the "third parties" in American politics? What does each party support?
4. Do third parties have equal access to voters? Should they have equal access to voters? Explain.
5. Name each of the Republican candidates. For each, be able to describe his background, his qualifications, and his approximate place in the polls.
6. What is an interest group? What role do interest groups play in American politics?
7. What is a lobbyist? What role do lobbyists play in American politics?
8. Name and describe the main lobbying tactics.
9. What is the Occupy Wall Street movement? What are its goals? Do you agree with it? Explain.
10. Name and describe the constitutional powers of the president.
11. What is delegation of power, in the context of the American presidency?
12. Name and describe the inherent powers of the president?
13. What is a presidential veto? Why is this an important power? How can a veto be overcome?
14. What is an executive order? What does it enable the president to do?
15. What was the Illinois Pollution Control Board? What were its goals? What groups presented before it? What were their goals?

Documents for your Candidate Debate project

Here are all of the documents for your project in one, easy to find post:

• The debate presentation rubric
• The moderator paper rubric
• The candidate paper rubric
• The class ballot
• The class evaluation sheet

Gingrich Dominates Iowa Debate

Newt Gingrich continued to be the big story in Saturday's GOP debate in Iowa.

• You can find the complete transcript from ABC News here.
• This New York Times article talks about the candidates' strategy to attack Gingrich.
• This article from Politico.com breaks down Gingrich's perceived victory.
• The Washington Post breaks down the winners and losers.
• A highlight video from the Huffington Post

Example Documents

Here are some example documents for your project:

• A transcript of the Obama-McCain debate. I strongly recommend you take a look at this to see (in a written form) how debates typically take place.
• A document containing sample questions from a Canadian election debate.

Debate Format

PARTICIPANTS:

Moderator:

Role: To MC the debate, to introduce everyone, to explain the reason for the evening and the way that it will work, to ensure fairness and order, and to keep time.

Candidates: 

Role:  To answer the questions asked of them and to demonstrate that they are the best candidate to be the republican nominee.

Audience:

Role: To evaluate the success of the candidates during their debate

DEBATE FORMAT:

-The moderator will welcome everyone, introduce the debate's location and sponsor, explain why we have a need for this meeting, introduce the candidates, provide any necessary background information on issues they will discuss, and explain any planned deviations from the assigned format of the meeting.

-The moderator will introduce the candidates and their respective parties, then pose his/her first question to one of the candidates. The moderator will allow the first candidate to complete her thought, then allow the second candidate to respond.

-The moderator is responsible for maintaining decorum during the debate. He/she should stop the candidates from interrupting one another and may cut the candidate off at any time if it is necessary (long-winded response, avoiding the topic, etc.).

-After the moderator has asked her questions, she will turn to the audience for one question. 

-Once each candidate has had the opportunity to respond to the audience question, the debate is over.

-Although this would not happen in real life, at the end of each debate the moderator will poll the class to assign a winner. In real life, the task of deciding who wins a debate typically falls to the press (or to each candidate’s campaign manager).

Candidate Debates Dates

1. Paper and bibliography due on Tuesday, 12/13/11
2. Practice on Wednesday, 12/14/11
3. Debate on Thursday, 12/15/11