(1) I most identify with the Republican party. I am conservative and believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. I am not saying that I look down on same sex marriage because we all have the right to choose who we are with, but marriage was designed for one man and one woman. I believe that life should be born instead of taken away just because it was the easy way out. I feel that illegal aliens should not be able to come into the U.S. and get insurance and health care when legal citizens can not get any at all. I do not agree with the cap of limited tax deductions because lower and middle income class struggle therefore upper and wealthy class should get taxed more.

(2) I feel that America does need political parties. If America did not have any we would all strive for different objectives. You would not be able to fine ten people that think the same way for the benefit  of the people. What a perfect world we would live in if we all had the same goal in mind as our founding fathers. Our founding fathers fought for independence for the growth of our country. Some political parties now want to hinder that growth instead of keeping it the greatest country on Earth. Therefore we need political parties so one party is still fighting for values that our founding fathers had while the other tries to diminish it.

(3) I mostly identify with the Whig Party, because the Whig Party promoted industrial growth in the United States. They helped promote public schools, private colleges, charities, and cultural institutions. Although I do not believe in everything this party stood for, it did help our country.

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NEA- Believes every child deserves a quality education. Since 1857, the NEA has crusaded for the rights of educators and children. One hundred educators became advocates for public education. In a time when not every child was given the opportunity to learn to read and write. In 1966 the NEA joined with the American Teachers Association, since 1966 the NEA has grown to 3.2 million members, giving the opportunity for education to every child. This was a controversial partnership during the Civil Rights Movement.

United Mine Workers- This Union, founded in 1890, began representing coal miners and coal technicians. Today they also represent health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees. While this Union focuses on workers and rights, they also strive for better roads, schools and universal health care. This union is made up of men and women who built our country.The union helped the workers become independent of the company stores, who used their leverage of being the only retail store in the area to manipulate all the monies the coal miners made.

NRA- Interest groups, such as the NRA (National Rifle Association), is battling groups that want to ban guns. I feel that is a violation of American citizens 2nd Amendment's right to bear arms. I feel it is not the gun that creates anger and violence, but the person that is using it. These groups are on a fine-line of taking away our rights to protect and provide for our families.

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1) I do not think that objectivity exists in the news media because the media wants to continue coverage on subjects that is always negative..for example..the shooting of Trayvon Martin, this was a horrible accident that quickly turned to a hate racist crime. It was in the new daily, weekly and always negative turning it into something it may or may not have been. When Veteran Navy Seal Chris Kyle was shot, it was in the news for one day. The same is for politicians. The 2012 President campaign, all you heard was how Mitt Romney had made so much money but had paid in so little taxes. For my view, CNN is the most objective news. I have the app, I look at it online, and I watch it on TV. I think they have coverage of a wide variety of news. I don't feel that they are bias. As for the other news media, I am not familiar with them to say one way or the other.

2) I am not familiar with Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, etc. They do not have an effect on how I view politics. I have heard of Rush Limbaugh and how opinionated he is. I do not like talking little lone listening to someone who is very opinionated about politics, it is a way for me to turn the deaf ear real fast. I like to look at the facts and judge for myself.

3) I feel that media objectivity should be important. The media reaches out to different ethnicity, genders, age group, and different classes of wealth. They need to cover stories that effect the different wide variety of groups watching. It would be detrimental to a news outlet to only cover stories that only pertain to one social group. An example..our local channel 10 news does "Buddy Check 10" for breast cancer. It is not just women who watches channel 10 news. What is that was the only story they wanted to run? Not many people would watch, sure women would, but men would not.

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I feel that America is to dependent on polls. We like to see figures before knowing what the outcome is going to be.."counting our chickens before they hatch" so to speak. I don't think that news agencies should create pills and report on them. Half the time they are going on half of polls being conducted and reporting on it. Causing a lot of friction among news channels overturn each other on report of the polls. News agencies should just stick with reporting news and not try to interfere where they don't belong.

Political party identification is somewhat important to me. When I know what someones political identification is I judge on what they believe. Political identification was very important to my parents and grandparents. A lot of times it would cause fights if you were not on the same page and harsh words were often spoken causing them to walk away mad. I don't think it's as big as a deal to most of my friends. They are younger and think that everything will be hunky dory in the future.

I feel that my opinion of politics is influenced more by economic issues. Watching the stock market go up and down and not knowing when or if it will crash. The treat of not having social security when I become of age to retire or the fact I could be forced to have insurance and if I don't want it I could be fined. My as a women being singled out that I can not own a gun and protect myself becomes I am a woman and I would shoot just because, or the fact that firearms could be taken away from me entirely. America needs a wake up call before we at the point of no return.


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