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The 2000 presidential election caused many Americans to question the fairness of the Electoral College, and the relevance of a 200-year-old way of electing a president. The Electoral College: Is This Any Way to Pick a President? presents a number of issues being raised in this debate. The video also looks at some reforms that have been suggested for the Electoral College.

Even with her BFF going to another school, Gabby is determined to make sixth grade the best year ever! She's even ready to stand up to confident and intimidating Aaliyah Reade-Johnson if she makes fun of Gabby for her stutter.

After finding out there has never been a female U.S. president, Grace decides to run in her school's mock election, where she learns about the American electoral system and sets out to be the best person for the job even though her opponent, Thomas, seems to be winning all the boys' votes.

In graphic novel format, a brief biography of Barack Obama that focuses on his political career from his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2004 through his election in 2008 as the 44th President of the United States.

Provides a short history of Democracy, explains the process by which presidential campaigns are conducted, and discusses why citizens should exercise their right to vote.

"What is the Electoral College, and do the American people really need it? Should the popular vote determine the winnerin any given presidential election? This anthology examines the origin and purpose of the Electoral College and offers balanced arguments for and against its use in the general election process. Readers will see how the Electoral Collegeand popular vote can function harmoniously together, as wellas examples supporting the viewpoint that the system has broken down and doesn't reflect the popular will"--OCLC.

Readers are given a detailed overview of how the Constitution was born and how it has been amended throughout history.

Young readers are introduced to the specifics of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the structure and powers of Congress, and the various jobs carried out by Congress.

The Carter presidency was on life support. The Democrats, desperate to keep power and yearning to resurrect former glory, turned to Kennedy. And so, 1980 became a civil war. It was the last time an American president received a serious reelection challenge from inside his own party, the last contested convention, and the last all-out floor fight, where political combatants fought in real time to decide who would be the nominee. It was the last gasp of an outdated system, an insider's game that old Kennedy hands thought they had mastered, and the year that marked the unraveling of the Democratic Party as America had known it.

"Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben Fountain argues that the United States may be facing a third existential crisis, one that will require a "burning" of the old order as America attempts to remake itself" --.