Unit 2 (February 16, 2016)

Who Will Win The Democratic Race?

                In South Carolina Bernie Sanders is starting to turn heads for the February 27^th primary. Many of the Registered African American voters, over 50% from a random sampling, are polling that they would vote for Sanders not Clinton. Sanders likable grassroots approach is attracting and holding the attentions of many. Sanders is also polling well due to his extremely Liberal ideologies. His promises of fee collage and free health care attract a lot of attention with the lower class voters who are struggling to get by. From recent polls and turnouts at his campaign rallies Bernie Sanders is not afraid of South Carolina. Saying that he may not have name recognition but he can appeal and relate to the common citizen.

            The breakdown of South Carolina’s Political Typology on the democratic side shows that sanders has the potential to do just as well if not better than Clinton. These polls show that the common citizen of South Carolina is relating to and agreeing with the ideas that Bernie Sanders is promising to uphold. These polls are being used by sanders to develop a better understanding of what voters want. He will then use this information to develop and evolve his campaigning strategies in order to maximize the amount of votes he will receive. This is the whole point of a political poll. He is finding the people who are least likely to vote for Hillary Clinton, people with low socioeconomic standing, and in turn developing ways to get them on his side.

Link:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/16/cracks-in-hillary-s-firewall-black-voters-divided-between-dem-candidates.html

Unit One (February 9, 2016)

Capital Punishment, Yes or No?

The argument is that the use of capital punishment is harsh and should be discontinued. Capital punishment or the death penalty is a sentencing for crimes that are considered heinous. It is legal in just over fifty percent of the states. This is due to the fact that execution is a reserved power. However, only a handful of the states that have kept it legal have actually used it in recent years. These states include Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Georgia, and Oklahoma. This lack luster amount of participants is due to several reasons. First off it is widely considered immoral to kill others, the method of lethal injection has come into question, and many suppliers have stopped manufacturing the killer drugs.

            Lethal injection is directly against the Eighth Amendment which prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment. Recent studies have shown that the drugs used during lethal injection cause pain before death. Also while causing pain up to seven percent of execution by lethal injection have failed to work. This is causing a great loss of revenue in money spent on drugs that never take effect. It is considered to be just a cruel as killing in any other fashion. This a very large debate that very well may never truly come to an end. Some states and people are far to “loving” of the death penalty. This make it hard to bring up such counter arguments as the constitution. Also it has proven difficult to truly test whether it is painful or not to die by lethal injection. Due to the fact that most participants don get the chance to answer that question. Until these questions are answered the death penalty cannot be stopped based solely upon the constitution. However, a federal mandate or a referendum containing the majority rule against the use of capital punishment very well may stop its use in the near future.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/29/things-to-know-death-penalty-and-execution-drugs.html