Article Summary #10
Landon Clow
4/24/14
The first article from the previous week that I found to be extremely interesting was, "Fixing the Electoral College: New York Join Pack to Elect President by Popular Vote." The article tackles the issue of how the current United States voting system is no longer efficient in regards to electing the president of the United States of America. For many years politicians have only focused on certain states because of how the electoral college system works. After the Al Gore, George W. Bush dilemma of Bush winning the electoral college system but lost the popular vote. Since the 2000 election there has been a push for a system in which the population vote would determine who wins the presidency. New York and nine other states have come together to argue that who ever whens the popular vote receives the electoral college points of the state. A ever growing issue is that states that are usually guaranteed to go democrat or republican leave out the votes of those who oppose the views of the state. The new system would make every vote count in that a president would be elected by the people if America rather than the state of a citizen.
The second article from the last week continues the coverage of the Russia, Ukraine crisis. Within "We are not Beginning a New Cold War, We are Well Into It," a professor named Stephen Cohen who studies Russian History has a very interesting take on the situation in Russia. The professor was one of the very few to foreshadow Ukraine splitting up into two halves. Recently, the east side of Ukraine have killed three pro Russia individuals, and made an attempt to take over a military base. Cohen had stated previously that the violence will continue regardless of the stance the United States takes. He also has been disappointed in how the United States media has covered the crisis in that they are using this situation to demonize Putin rather than reporting the actual events taking place. Although Putin is not innocent, the professor states that the European Union has played a bigger part than most people are willing to admit.
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