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Explores issues surrounding the election process by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.

PACMEN is the first film to document the inside workings of a Super-PAC, taking us behind the scenes to answer one of the lingering questions of America’s strangest election…why did Ben Carson run for president? This observational documentary follows the men behind the Super-PACs that drafted Dr Carson to run.

Elections A to Z provides readers with the information they need to understand how campaigns and elections are conducted in the United States and how voters, candidates, political parties and others participate in the electoral process. This thoroughly revised and updated 3rd edition features a new user friendly design that engages readers with Closer Look sidebars and extensive cross-references. Important new topics covered in this encyclopedic volume...

"In 2000, just a few hundred votes in the state of Florida separated Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush from his Democratic opponent, Al Gore. The outcome of the election rested on Florida's 25 electoral votes, and legal wrangling continued for 36 days. Then, abruptly, one of the most controversial Supreme Court decisions in U.S. history, Bush v. Gore, cut short the battle. Since then we have witnessed a partisan war over election rules....

Elections are part of the foundation of our democracy. Readers learn how elections work, whether its voting on local rules or electing the President of the United States. The book also highlights why voting is so very important and how kids can become involved, even when they're still years from casting their first vote.

After campaigning door to door for the democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders in New York City, two ardent Bernie supporters go to Philadelphia to protest Hillary Clinton’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention, furious in their knowledge that her nomination could lead to a Donald Trump presidency. A political documentary that chronicles the grassroots social justice movement that supported Bernie in 2016 and how it could shape the...

Since 1996, the student body of Townsend Harris High School has been staging the longest running civics experiment in the form of simulating the American electoral process against the backdrop of the real one. In these elaborate mock elections that span an entire semester, candidates must run the whole gamut of an election Grand simulation replete with fake money, media pundits, campaign ads, debates, electioneering, super PACs, and candidates' spouses....

This acclaimed documentary examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana -a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide - to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Short-Listed for Best Documentary Feature at the...