3.3 Merci, lago, she go, wherever I go, wherever we go, we do it pronto

1. Jimmy Carter's 35,000 words/ Clinton's 9,172 words

2. 1973: Nixon

3. They both are known for their long speeches. Clinton is considered the longest speaker and Obama is second.

4. Jimmy Carter had short speeches, but he had fairly long text with his speeches, which he often sent to ?Congress.

1. The bully pulpit is widely held to impart significant advantage to presidents by equipping them with a powerful megaphone to persuade the American people and other political actors to support their positions

2. The platform is perceived to be especially potent because it is a prerogative all the president’s own, unencumbered by other branches of government. No member of Congress or Supreme Court justice can vet his prose. Leaving the power "unchecked".

3. In the past, the use has been extremely high and with great success rates, but in recent years, it is not used as much or as effectively. The American people are not as often addressed either.

4. Rather than hearing from the president directly, the American people often come to learn about his messages through the filter of journalists. The rise in punditry has coincided with heightened investigation into— and criticism of—presidential claims. Presidential statements no longer go uncontested either.

5. When presidents talk to the public on the chances they are given, they are often ignored. When they are not ignored, they are simply not listened to and the people remain unpersuaded.

3.2 Listen as the Crowd Would Sing, Now the Old King is Dead, Long Live the King

1. The position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States; the principal legal officer who represents a country or a state in legal proceedings and gives legal advice to the government.

2. His executive actions may be challenged in court by some who claimed they would do so. Not getting legislation in the books also means that a President in the future who disagrees with him could unilaterally reverse Obama's actions. Also a congressional Republican also threatened to block funding for the Justice Department to stop the executive actions.

3. People can get guns if they buy them from private sellers, and through this method there is no background checks. Also the program that runs background checking does not have the resources it need to be efficient and thorough.

5. The private seller method. The program does not receive enough money to run itself efficiently. Also, the program has a loophole that says that if a case is halted, since it is not thorough whether a person should have a gun, then it is given a 3 day wait period for the fbi to get to it. If this fails to happen, the person in question can go ahead and buy a gun... We could see how this could create some problems. Also, since the system does not have enough money to run its on background checks on individuals thoroughly, it relies on other thing such as state records. If the state does not have records on an individual, this can just fly by the system as someone with no history of mental illness.

6. His executive actions would not close the loopholes, but they do take steps to tighten current restrictions on firearms and ensure that federal officials can actually enforce the law that's on the books.

7. Mostly the NRA and strong gun advocates who more times than not will be with the NRA.

8. Washington state and Oregon passed law ensuring all guns have to go through background checks, including those sold between individuals. This is a tightening on restrictions. Some Democratic states have tightened restrictions and some Republican states have loosened restrictions.

9. It would take decades for the impact to be felt.

10. To have a more immediate impact, the US would have to find a way to quickly remove the number of guns in circulation.

3.1 Pink Toes Pressed Against The Carpet. Show Your Face, and Finish What You Started.

1. They caused the main federal statute governing K-12 education to get an overhaul, as well as the federal disability insurance system. A continued dispute about federal highway funding finally got resolved, as did a long-running dispute about Medicare payments. December saw a whole bunch of tax changes featuring good news for low-wage workers and a broad set of business interests. Congress passed a law to ban microbeads in bath products to help protect the nation's fisheries.

2. Many bills passed between 2009 and 2010 since Democrats won big in the 2008 election and because the Obama White House was good at coordinating with Democratic congressional leaders on the question of what issues Democrats wanted to take up.

3. They want to get bills passed, so they have started to compromise a bit more.

4.In competing for political offices only one can win a position, but in passing policy, everyone can win if they compromise and get stuff passed. While politician expend resources and run for political policies, nothing gets done. This is bad for everyone.

5. Republicans won some tax victories that were important to them, and Democrats won some tax victories for the working class. In exchange, both sides had to let the other side push up the budget deficit, but it turned out neither side really cared that much, so both sides win.

6. Many deals were worked out in secrecy, and they were not done well at all. There was repeated failure in rewriting a No Child Left Behind policy as well, which did not help very much either.

7. The politicians work together in secrecy, so outside people and groups don't have as much influence on preventing things from moving forward or passing. The main way to keep people in the dark is by having them focus on other more important issues that are highly debated on.

2.10 Tell me what you know about Dreamin' Dreamin', Tell me what you know about Night Terrors Every Night

1. a. He had no experience or knowledge on political campaigns
    b. He would have to let go of his business, which he invested most of his life into

2. She had name recognition before her campaign, she knew what she was doing, and she had recognized, strong work ethic.

3. It's over 9,000!! actually it's more like a million dollars

4. This would primarily be for cable tv ads and direct mail.

5. He would need a media strategist, a fundraising consultant, an election lawyer, a direct mail consultant, and a campaign treasurer.

6. He wanted the Jewish vote from his district by representing how he was Jewish as well.

7. Jewish people, people 65 years or older, and people 50 years or older comprise most of his voting demographic.

8. He raised $130,000 in the first four days.

9. It helped him receive more funding for his campaign and more recognition as well.

10. He raised $517,000 in 46 days. He lost. Yeah... anticlimactic 

2.9 I'm Packing Up and Goin' to Mars, and When I Get There Ima Bounce

1. 8 minutes and 3 seconds (Ball so hard Mr. Mansfield wanna find me yo)

2. Advisory committees and Non Legislators drop influential opinions, but officially it is done by a nonpartisan state agency.

3. 13th- 14% Republican 86% Democratic
 14th- 16% Republican 84% Democratic

4. The 1st even breaks even with a 50/50 (OH what am I s'posed to do when the best part of me was always you- get it? get it?)

5. It is the least compact congressional district in 'Murica and it has a large democratic majority

6. Three districts are controlled by democrats. This is a minority compared to the other fifteen Republican districts, but the state still voted democrat in the presidential election.

7. the 3rd 9th llth and 13th districts are controlled by democrats

8. It is 100% Republican

9. John Boehner was from there. They drew it this way to get the guarantee that he would be elected.

10. None of them were hard, but Pennsylvania was easily the most annoying.

2.7 I Know You Were Trouble When You Walked In (Silly Democrats)

1. Organizes and schedules the Democratic party's primary debates,

2. The debates are likely to be held on days with the highest viewership. They do not happen on the nights with the least viewership, Saturday and Sunday, but they do happen on the nights with the most viewership, which is currently Thursday.

3. Republicans schedule their debates on dates that have been known to have very high viewership, but the Democrats have only scheduled one debate on Thursday.

4. Democrats have debates scheduled on a Saturday, six days before Christmas, which is also a Saturday,and the Sunday night of Martin Luther King Day weekend. Their debates are basically just badly planned according to statistics, that is if they are looking for viewership anyway.

5. Since the debates are on low viewership days, Hilary gets less bad press coverage. She also gets to solidify support coming in to her from moderates, while also not giving her competitors a real chance to one up her per se.

6. Bernie Sanders won't get as much exposure or attention, since their is less viewership on the days of the debates. This gives him less publicity he needs to get the edge over Hilary.

7. A lot of Sander's support is not originating from viewers of the debates anyhow, so the negative impact will not be that large. Most of his support, especially from the younger supporters will still thrive through online social networking and media.

8. Barely anyone knows much about O'Malley, much less that he is still even in the race. So without this publicity, he is deader than he already is. In other words, it is extremely hard/bad for him, but does it really matter though? Like, does it really matter though? Like, does it really matter though? (Childish Gambino Voice)

2.6 All These Lights, They Can't Blind Me... Nobody Can Drag Trump Down

1. The other candidates have to have equal opportunity to have time on air that is not news or interview related.

2. They can ask to be on air for free to get their own messages out to voters.

3. If they rerun the episode, then that is more air time that Trump is getting, thus they have to offer that much more free air time to all of the other political candidates running against trump as well.

4. Section 315(a) does not really ask broadcast stations to cover political candidates, but if a candidate is on the air, then stations are required to offer the same to all the rivals of the candidate.

5. The original intention was to make the elections fair and promote debate, but instead the doctrine actually pulls away from the candidates and often ends up roadblocking the good debates that could ensue regularly.

6. Bona fide news events are  broadcasts or documentaries, and under section 315a, the media station is not obliged to give any other candidate anything in addition for these. The FCC also decided that political debates would fall under this category.

7. The FEC has a broad media exemption that allows programs about political candidates. If the FEC decides that a canidate's air time does not meet its regulations, then it can claim the appearance was a campaign contribution or expenditure. This would add up, and lead to reaching contribution limits faster, disclosure requirements and possible fines would also be negatively affected. The FEC can do this by themselves, without having to us the 315(a) clause at all.