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Task
A: How do candidates select platforms and campaign strategies?
Answer
the following questions based on the the reading.
- What are some examples
of personal stories Democratic candidates are sharing about themselves
in their campaigns?
- Which candidates have
revealed personal information as part of their campaigns?
- Which candidates have
chosen not to use their personal lives or backgrounds in their campaigns?
- According to the article,
how did former President Bill Clinton change the way campaigns are
conducted?
- Why is there a "30-year
gap" in candidate John Edwards' story, according to the article?
- Why might Dr. Howard Dean's
upbringing not be considered "compelling"?
- How might regional differences
account for candidates' campaign styles, according to the article?
- How might economic or
class differences affect the amount of information a candidate chooses
to disclose about him- or herself, according to the article?
- Why did a reporter ask
Dr. Dean, "Does your wife know you're running for president?"
- Was there any indication
that John Kerry could be the winner of the Democratic Primaries after
reading this article?
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Task
B: Answer the following questions based on the reading.
- How has the public's confidence
in President Bush's handling of international crisis changed in the
last five months?
- According to the poll
cited in the article, how does a majority of the public now feel about
his ability to make good economic decisions?
- What conclusions do the
reporters draw from the survey with regards to the public's opinion
of the Democratic presidential candidates as the potential future
leadership of the country?
- Which poll results surprise
you? Which do not surprise you?
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Task C: Create a poll of your own:
- Team up with your group
and create a political survey.
- The questions of your
survey should answer the following question: What kind of
candidate do people want to vote for in a presidential election?
This means that all of the answers to your survey's questions
helps to answer the question;What kind of candidate do people
want to vote for in a presidential election?
- Think about what kinds
of information a potential Presidental candidate might be interested
in; the values, opinions, interests held by voters.
- Phrase your questions
so that you can find out how much, or how little someone feels about
the issues raised in your survey's questions no one feels exactly
the same as the next person - specially when it comes to politics!
- Use the following guidelines
for creating your group's survey. There
are also resurces provided below to add to your knowledge of polls.
- See your teacher when
you have completed a rough draft of your survey's questions and
answers.
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Task
D: Tally the results from your poll
- Add up the number of respondents
to each of the questions in your survey.
- Write a summary: What
kind of candidate do people want to vote for in a presidential election?
- Write a review of the
work you did:
- What part of the assignment
did your group enjoy the most?
- What was the most
difficult part of the assignment?
- What value does your
survey have? Did it determine what kind of candidate do people
want to vote for in a presidential election?
- Did your ideas about
political surveys change? How?
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