What issues are important to american voters today

What issues are important to American voters today?

Rob Smith

Stephanie Phillips

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• Voting Rights

• Health Care

• Foreign Policy

• Economics

• Immigration

• Prediction

Voting Rights

• The right of a stockholder to vote on matters of corporate policy and who will make up the board of directors. Voting often involves decisions on issuing securities, initiating corporate actions and making substantial changes in the corporation's operations.

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1790 Only white male adult property-owners have the right to vote.

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1850 Property ownership and tax requirements eliminated by 1850. Almost all adult white males could

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1870 The 15th Amendment is passed. It gives former slaves the right to vote and protects the voting rights of adult

male citizens of any race.http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html

1890 Mississippi adopts a literacy test to keep African Americans from voting.

Numerous other states—not just in the south—also establish literacy tests.

However, the tests also exclude many whites from voting. To get around this,

states add grandfather clauses that allow those who could vote before 1870, or their descendants, to vote regardless of literacy

or tax qualifications.

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1920 The 19th Amendment guarantees women's suffrage.

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1965 The Voting Rights Act protects the rights of minority voters and

eliminates voting barriers such as the literacy test. The Act is expanded and

renewed in 1970, 1975, and 1982.

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1971 The 26th amendment sets the minimum voting age at 18.

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Is it your civic duty to vote?

Health Care

What issues concern American voters today?

What is Health Care?

-The issue of health care is insurance.

-Health Insurance is a premium payment to help people with medical expenses.

-Everyone contributes to a larger fund, those that need the fund then use it.

Healthcare Mandate

-Mandate = Required by Law

-Today it is required by law that all U.S. Citizens have health insurance.

Healthcare Choice

-Before the new law, people had the choice to risk having no insurance for medical expenses.

-Should a person be able to chose whether or not to purchase healthcare insurance?

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Foreign Policy

What issues concern American voters today?

Neutrality

-U.S. neutrality is the isolation (noninvolvement) in other countries and the focus on domestic (internal) issues.

Assistance and Intervention-The idea of globalism- what affects one country trickles into another, especially with economic trade.

-The U.S. offers military, financial, and humanitarian aid to many other countries.

-This keeps the U.S. in certain standing with other countries and helping them with development, therefore potentially helping the U.S., although at a cost.

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Economics

What issues concern American voters today?

Economic Focus

-U.S. currency

-U.S. job market

-Supply and Demand, exchange of goods both global and domestic

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Immigration

What issues concern American voters today?

Civil Liberties-What rights, including American citizen assistance/rights, should illegal immigrants have?

-Examples of Citizen Rights in U.S.

-Welfare

-Education

-Due Process Rights

-Health Care

-Vote

Should nationality matter?

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Predict and Discuss

What issues are important to American voters today?