Pick one of the following:
1. Forecast the popular vote (percentages) and electoral vote in the 2008 election. Explain. In your essay, you need not discuss every state, just the key battlegrounds. Attach a map or list of your state predictions, which will not count against the page limit. Here are some handy pages:
- http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/govt/jpitney/elect.htm
- http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/pick-your-president/
- http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=1
2. Using primary source documents online, explain one major presidential decision by one of the following:
- Harry Truman http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photos/av-photo.htm
- Eisenhower http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/
- JFK http://www.jfklibrary.org/historical+resources/archives/reference+desk
- LBJ http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/archives-main.shtm
- Nixon http://nixon.archives.gov/virtuallibrary/index.php
- Bush http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/research.php
Also see a variety of sites at:
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/govt/jpitney/presidency.html - Essays should be typed (12-point), stapled, double-spaced, and no more than four pages long. I will not read past the fourth page.
- Put your name on a cover sheet. Do not identify yourself on the text pages.
- Cite your sources. You may use either endnotes or parenthetical references to a bibliography. In either case, put your documentation in a standard format (e.g., Turabian or Chicago Manual of Style).
- Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you.
- Return essays by the start of class, Wednesday 29 October. Essays will drop one gradepoint for one day's lateness and a full grade after that. I will grant no extensions except for illness or emergency.
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