Fixing Democracy

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Fixing Democracy POLS 125: Political Parties & Elections

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Fixing Democracy. POLS 125: Political Parties & Elections. One word. What ONE WORD best describes your impression of the presidential candidates?. ?. Word Cloud constructed from the responses people gave to a Pew Research Center poll, January 2012: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Fixing DemocracyPOLS 125: Political Parties &

Elections

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One word

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What ONE WORD best describes your impression of the

presidential candidates?

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Word Cloud constructed from the responses people gave to a Pew Research Center poll, January 2012:

What ONE WORD best describes your impression of... Barack Obama

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Word Cloud constructed from the responses people gave to a Pew Research Center poll, March 2012:

What ONE WORD best describes your impression of... Mitt Romney

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What ONE WORD best describes your impression of the

Democratic and Republican parties?

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Words that Democrats use to describe Republicans

Words that Democrats use to describe Republicans

Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, August 2012

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Words that Republicans use to describe Democrats

Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, August 2012

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What ONE WORD best describes your impression of Congress?

?

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Word Cloud constructed from the responses people gave to a Pew Research Center poll in March 2010:

“One word that best describes your impression of Congress"

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So we don’t like POLITICAL CANDIDATES, or the PARTIES they represent, or the INSTITITUIONS they manage,

How then do we feel about the democratic ELECTIONS that seek to change those things?

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What one word describes your current state of mind?

Throughout Election Day in 2008, NYTimes.com readers submitted the words that best described their moods.

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One year later…

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What’s Wrong with U.S. Elections?

Can we take these words and combine them into sentences that identify the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. electoral system?• Candidates• Parties • Institutions• Process