Assessment activity #6 & 7

The Upcoming Presidential Election

Online, you could go to both party sites, news sites, wikipedia...or just google it and click the first thing that comes up. Physically, you could go to supporter rallies, clubs supporting whichever candidate you choose, speeches or debates. It would probably be easier to just use a computer if all you wanted was information on the election, or just turn on the news.

Information could be gathered by party leaders, political forums, news reports, etc. Deciding who you use depends on what the topic is. If you're writing an analysis of the election, I'd select two experts with opposing opinions and compare and contrast how they are supporting their respective candidate; then I would find people with similar opinions to make my analysis more credible. For an argument/research paper, I would choose one side, gather facts from past elections, and predict the winner or something like that. An ethnography would probably be the most interesting paper to write. Choosing a group, probably democrats or republicans, and interviewing liberals from one side would make for an interesting paper.

Question 7
I'd definitely use polling results from the past and look at the historical side of elections. Interviewing a president of a democratic/republican chapter would be a good source of information as well. I'd try to stick to people, books, and academic journals for most of my information, but some papers would probably be helped by average Joe's opinion.