The Issues: Candidates Statements, Plans, and Voting Records

For your ISSUE, your TEAM must do the following.

Research BOTH candidates’ stance on the issue. As a team, make sure that you cover as much of the issue as possible.  Your group will all receive the same GRADE on your BLOG and PRESENTATION.   

 

CHOOSE A BLOG:  You will be posting this on only ONE PERSON’S blog:  TITLE the post the name of your ISSUE and, put each person’s first name in the first line beneath the title.

SECTION ONE:  Write a paragraph in your own words for each candidate that summarizes your group’s analysis of where each candidate stands on this issue.  Discuss what you believe this candidate would do (if anything) to address this issue if he became President.  Do not PLAGIARIZE here.  Together, you should write this sections. You CAN and SHOULD raise questions in this paragraph, like “…but it is unclear if he would need to raise taxes in order to do this,”  or  “…but his voting record doesn’t seem to support these public statements.” 

SECTION TWO:  What PROMISES or STATEMENTS have they made that outline their PLANS in this area?  Have any of their statements against the other candidate highlighted their intentions? 

SECTION THREE:  What are the two candidates’ VOTING RECORDS on these issues.  How do their votes indicate their position on these issues in the past?

SOURCES: list  2 sources that you drew from in order to accomplish this task.

POST a COMMENT on this BLOG when you are FINISHED.  This should be completed by the end of the period, but if not, you can complete it by Tuesday, Oct 10th at 8:00 a.m.

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   1. Organize your PRESENTATION of this issue (without any plagiarism) to the class.  Everyone must present a part of your findings on the candidates to the class.

                                                               i.      present their public statements and plans

                                                              ii.      present their voting record

                                                            iii.      present QUESTIONS that still remain (in your mind) about this issue after doing it.

Below is a LINK that is a great place to START.  See ELECTION GUIDE and CHECKPOINT NAVIGATOR to find sources.

                                                       

 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/politics/series/check_point/index.html