Can Hillary Clinton Still Win The Election? 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know

Ever since the results of the presidential election, news articles and people all around the country have been constantly talking about America’s future with Donald Trump. Many democrats are still in shock with Trump’s victory and are blatantly throwing dirt on Trump’s name whenever he comes up in conversation. One miracle that many people are hoping for is the chance for Hillary Clinton to be elected president. This can possibly happen if the electoral college ends up voting in favor of Hillary Clinton on the 19th of December.

Currently, there is a change.org online petition that is attempting to get electoral college voters to ignore their states’ votes and vote for Hillary. Hillary won the popular vote by 500,000 votes, yet still lost the election. The petition is using that as one of its main arguments to get the electoral college to vote Hillary into presidency. Overall, the chances of Trump losing his presidency seem very slim and appears to be quite the long shot. I am quite interested to see what Trump will do in the next 4 years to benefit America’s future. Hopefully, his presidency will not be as dreadful as some people expect it to be.

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In a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton held on September 26, Donald Trump compared his “winning” temperament to the temperament of Hillary Clinton. He talks about how it is his best asset and how Clinton’s temperament is problematic. In retaliation, Hillary Clinton created a political ad that exposes Trump’s bad temperament by showing some of the irrational outbursts that he has made during his speeches.

The reason I chose this political ad is because it does a good job using ethos, pathos, and logos to shed a bad image towards Donald Trump. When the advertisement highlights Trump’s moments of bad temperament, it exemplifies the use of ethos. This is due to the clips’ ability to convince an audience that Trump has bad temperament. This can also be seen as logos since the video uses these clips as evidence to back up what the video is trying to prove. Regarding pathos, these videos might also affect audience’s emotionally and make them think negatively of Trump. These uses of rhetoric were made in order to make Trump look worse as a president and to make Clinton look like a better potential president.

When this ad was created, it was most likely targeting the audience of everyone who is eligible to vote. It does a great job exposing Trump’s wrong doing, which is probably found interesting to most of Americans voting in this presidential debate. The younger audience might find the ad to be humorous while the older audience might see offense in it. The overall goal of making Trump look like a terrible candidate was definitely accomplished, but different types of audiences probably react to it in different ways.

In my opinion, the use of rhetoric in this advertisement is taken a little too far. Most people would agree that this election was more explicit than any other election that has happened so far, and the clips used in this advertisement do a good job of showing it. Donald Trump’s “I can say anything I want and get away with it” attitude is very unsettling to me, and I hope that he tries to filter himself if he ends up becoming president.

The idea of democracy in America can be very confusing to someone who is learning about democracy for the first time. In middle school history classes all around the United States, students are taught the basics, benefits, and disadvantages within the standard system of democracy. However, when it comes to democracy in America, there are many alterations of its system of democracy when compared to what is considered and taught as democracy. Some Americans consider the system of government to be more republic rather than democratic. According to the New York Times article, “Is There Too Much Democracy in America or Too Little?”, Michael Lind addresses the commonly discussed issue in America that our country’s current system of democracy is too weak and focused heavily on the federal government instead of the state and local governments.  When thinking of a regular, unaltered democratic society, we think of a system of government that evenly distributes power between the federal, state, and local government by giving each government certain responsibilities to oversee. Michael Lind discusses how as of late, the federal government has been receiving more and more power due to the attainment of responsibilities that formally belonged to both the local and state governments. This starts to create a “democratic deficit”, which causes an imbalance of power and a loss of the idea of democracy as a whole. Examples of this loss of distribution are the nationalization of the New Deal, the Supreme Court’s constitutionalization of reproductive rights, gay rights, and civil rights, and the recent addition of federal grants-in-aid which takes up a third of state government spending. It is very apparent that the American system of government is starting to slowly see an increase in centralization. Michael Lind and I both agree that there needs to be an increase in democracy. This can be done with aim towards decentralization by giving the states and local governments the power that they deserve. Without this, America will only see a loss in its current system of “democracy”.

As someone who is new to monologues, I wasn’t sure of what to expect when watching “CAKE” by Bekah Brunstetter. The monologue starts off with Jennifer Mudge, the monologue’s performer, as she talks to someone else about her groceries and Fourth of July plans. Halfway through the video, she brings up her son Timmy which completely shifts the mood of the monologue from a happy and casual conversation to a mournful and serious conversation. This shift begins when she brings up the other person’s husband named Michael who passed away while serving for America. Jennifer then briefly discusses how money is starting to become a necessity to enjoy the Fourth of July fireworks and how the holiday is starting to lose its value in regards to American tradition.

I chose this monologue because I have friends who recently went off to the Army/Marines. I can only imagine the amount of stress and anxiety that comes from having a husband, wife, daughter, or son that leaves to serve the United States thousands of miles away from home.

Jennifer Mudge rambles on and on about her Fourth of July cake and her thought process when she goes to shop for groceries. The monologue does an excellent job of showing how a housewife might occupy herself in order to keep her mind off thoughts of possibly losing a family member from a war.