Polling in the News this week

On my drive home tonight I heard 2 stories in a row about polling which I found fascinating.  But I'm not going to see you until Thursday!  So I decided to post them here in case you can or want to listen to them:

Story 1 was about Republican entrepreneur Jay Faison tells NPR's Robert Siegel why his foundation, ClearPath, brought together GOP pollsters to help find a way to get Americans to take climate change serious.  

Story 2 was about how Planned Parenthood recently has become a flashpoint in the 2016 presidential campaign, especially among GOP candidates. But public opinion about the organization isn't changing much.

I look forward to talking with you about public opinion more on Thursday.

Response to post 2

This week your task is to respond to a classmate from post 2.  You can pick someone you AGREE with or you DISAGREE with.  Either way you need to use at least one new piece of evidence to support or attack their argument.  You should write a minimum of a paragraph adding to their argument or taking it a part.  It could be helpful for you when trying to understand their argument to read the sources they used. Please try to incorporate feedback you got from me last week.  I look forward to reading your posts.  I hope it's a lively conversation!

Due by midnight on Friday, October 2nd.

Response post examples?

If you want to look at examples of particularly strong response posts go to http://apusgopo.blogspot.com/2015/09/post-2-respond-to-classmate-from-post-1.html and check out the responses by Scott, Zach, Jacob, Tera, and Umaimah.  :)

Post 2 - Due by 9/28

During the presidential election many issues of public policy will be discussed.  One issue that has surfaced so far is immigration.  To better prepare you to evaluate the candidate's proposal please answer the following prompt:

To what degree do you think immigration is an important public policy issue that should be a priority for the 2016 presidential campaign?  Why?  If you think it should be a priority in the campaign, what type of policy would you support and why?  If not, what issue do you think should be more important and why?

Please cite your sources and use at least 2-3.  If you have trouble finding research see me for help.  This is due on Friday but you can have an extention until Monday, Sept 28th if you need more time.

Respond to a classmate from post 1

This week your task is to respond to a classmate from post 1.  You can pick someone you AGREE with or you DISAGREE with.  Either way you need to use at least one new piece of evidence to support or attack their argument.  You should write a minimum of a paragraph adding to their argument or taking it a part.  It could be helpful for you when trying to understand their argument to read the sources they used.

Try to pick a classmate who has not already been responded to so that everyone has someone respond to them.  You can respond to more than one classmate in your post too.

One thing to remember is that if you are attacking someone's argument you are attacking what they wrote but not the author.

Things I noticed in post 1 I'd like to not see in this post:

• Use the last name of the candidate because this is an academic post and you're not actually friends with the candidate.
• Capitalize words like Democrat and Republican.
• Please proofread and spell check your posts before you post them.
• Please indicate after a sentence where you got that information from if you got if from a news source.  You do not need to use formal citing but you need to not just post news sources at the end of the post without telling the audience how you used them.  

Post is due by Friday, September 18th @ 7:50 am please.