ELECTION 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to pick your Candidate.

Next week is our MOCK ELECTION!!! Don't forget to fill out your voter registration card for homework! This is just practice, so don't freak out about me actually mailing it. :)

This weekend I would like you to view at least one commercial from both Bill White and Rick Perry. You can also use the candidate guide on www.click2houston.com at the link below.

http://onyourballot3.vote411.org/index.do

RICK PERRY
http://www.rickperry.org/

BILL WHITE
http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/

KATHIE GLASS
http://kathie4guv.com/

DEB SHAFTO
http://electdebshafto.org/

Be thinking about which candidate you prefer.

See you on MONDAY. Don't forget your Chp 9 and 10 take home quiz. Have a great weekend.

Economy in the pits

Describe the cartoon. Use at least 2 buzzwords from your beltway buzzword packet.

Presidential Speech Analysis

This hand out will be given to you in class 10/5/2010.

You will select ONE SPEECH from the following speeches ONLY:
1. President Williams J. Clinton in 1995
2. President George W. Bush in 2007
3. President Barack Obama in 2009

In order to be successful with this assignment, you will need to know and reference the following terms:
1. US CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION Article II Section 3
Vocabulary
• Bi-partisan
• Domestic Policy
• Executive agreement
• Executive order
• Executive privilege
• Foreign Policy
• Formal powers
• Implied powers
• Item veto
• Joint session of Congress
• Mid-Term Elections
• Partisan
• Pocket veto
• Presidential Agenda
• State of the Union Address (Article II-Section 3 of the Constitution)
• Treaty

Here are some links that can help you.

THIS MIGHT BE YOUR BEST LINK!!!!!!!
http://www.c-span.org/Executive/State-of-the-Union.aspx

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-and-remarks

OR

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/search.html

See the handout for more details.

THIS IS DUE

OCTOBER 21, 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED. MAJOR TEST GRADE.