From 90844f2dd29733bbd18623a2a207558b78876e6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Isaac Shoebottom Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:18:43 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] 2024-10-16 12:18:43 --- .obsidian/workspace.json | 10 +-- .../Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md | 64 ++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/.obsidian/workspace.json b/.obsidian/workspace.json index 9d96544..c156cc3 100644 --- a/.obsidian/workspace.json +++ b/.obsidian/workspace.json @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ "state": { "type": "markdown", "state": { - "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md", + "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md", "mode": "source", "source": false } @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ "state": { "type": "backlink", "state": { - "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md", + "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md", "collapseAll": false, "extraContext": false, "sortOrder": "alphabetical", @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ "state": { "type": "outgoing-link", "state": { - "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md", + "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md", "linksCollapsed": false, "unlinkedCollapsed": true } @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ "state": { "type": "outline", "state": { - "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md" + "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md" } } } @@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ }, "active": "9191391a49dbaeb6", "lastOpenFiles": [ + "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md", "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/CS3113/Midterm 1 Review.md", "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/CS3113/In class notes.md", - "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md", "gcm-diagnose.log", "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md", "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/MAAC3113/In class notes.md", diff --git a/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md b/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md index 247e614..890c188 100644 --- a/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md +++ b/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md @@ -290,4 +290,66 @@ He won in 1980 and in 1984 was a landslide victory for Reagan. - "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is." - House charged Clinton with two crimes: Lying under oath and obstruction of justice - Trial in the senate; neither received the necessary 2/3rds vote - - 2nd President to be impeached, but never convicted \ No newline at end of file + - 2nd President to be impeached, but never convicted +# 2000s +- After 1990s, people dug in and chose a side +- During election night in 2000 + - Wide swings in emotion + - Major errors in exit polls + - The vote counting that produced them + - Hanging chads + - Popular vote does not win the election + - Florida recount. George W Bush wins Florida by 537 vote margin + - Still debated if they had done a full recount if he would have won + - Closest thing to a tie in modern history. +- George vs Gore Electoral College + - Red for Republican states + - Blue for the Democratic states + - The colors were accidental, they had been used interchangeably as no election had been this close in a generation + - Red vs Blue america born on Nov 7, 2000 + - "The product of a nation torn in half" +- George W Bush (2000 - 2008) + - 43rd President, Republican + - Social conservative + - Universalist foreign policy + - Increased military spending (not a fiscal conservative) + - Increased deficit + - Activist federal government +- Barack Obama + - 44th President + - Increase social programs (education and health care) + - Cut military spending? + - Lower taxes for the middle class + - Federal intervention in the economy (Great recession of 2008) + - Multi-lateral foreign policy + - Federal intervention in the environment + - Mobilized the black vote + - Could be highest voter turnout ever + - Closest States + - Missouri (0.5%) + - North Carolina (0.5%) + - Indiana (1%) + - Florida (2%) +## 2016 +- Considered one of the biggest upsets in US history +- 5th time a candidate lost the popular vote and won the Presidency +- Trump over performed his polls winning important swing states +- He won in Democratic Leaning states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin +- Won by less than 80 000 votes +- Russians determined in 2017 to have interfered in the election +- Donald Trump + - Right wing populist campaign + - Make america great again + - Opposed political correctness, illegal immigration, and free trade +- Hillary Clinton + - Expansion of Obama's policies + - Race, LGBT, Woman's rights + - Inclusive capitalism: Address growing income and wealthy inequality within western capitalism following the financial crisis + - "Basket of deplorables" +- Gender and 2016 Election + - She was said to lack "feminine warmth" + - She was "overly masculine" or "insufficiently feminine" + - Trump used "locker room banter" + - "Macho man" + - Power has been allocated to men based on masculinity + - Disrupting the gender status quo of a political institution (...)