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UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md

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 	- "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
+	- 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 (...)