FC #6

My team ended up in 3rd overall. I learned that it is very important to choose the right person with high overall statistics. Power players difinitely brought me lots of points.

Blog 5

http://www.reuters.com/article/americasCrisis/idUSN02584453

Bush recently vetoed popular water projects bill that suppose to improves hundreds of water projects across our nation. That includes restoration in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina and improving the Florida Everglades. Bush opposed this bill because it will cost too much unneeded money that each individaul favors.The Senate passed the bill, 81-12, in September after the House of Representatives approved it by 381-40 a month earlier.House would hold a vote on Tuesday to attempt to override the president's veto.

"When we override this irresponsible veto, perhaps the president will finally recognize that Congress is an equal branch of government and reconsider his many other reckless veto threats," said Majority Leader Harry Reid.
I can see that Check and Balance are used here.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071026/ap_on_go_co/water_projects
This article is about the same explaining about the water bill but before Bush vetoed. Top Democrats are urging Bush to sign this bill.

FC #5

There is only 2 teams that are doing better then my team. I think its because they created their account earlier than mine. Also, I noticed that their senators are well known senators. Mostly Democrats, having good attendance rate. Another factors are, their supporters have good rate on almost everything. Overall everyone in other 2 teams have good overall rating.

FC#4

I trade Barack Obama for Tom Coburn because Obama was getting lazy.I noticed that his attendance were dropping, I also wanted to try a Republican to see how he will perform.

Blog post # 3

Part A: Pg. 261
1. It's 2004 Presidential Election Turnout by Social Group. The chart show the race, age, education, gender, ethnicity, and income.
2. People voted more with higher education, how older they are, and higher income. I could see the pattern going up toward older and wealthy people, while younger and less income criteria tend to vote less. I could conclude that older people have more interest in community then youngers because they have more money, properties, and have bigger family.
3. Charts by state by state could be useful.

Pg. 268
1. It's a poll of what Democrats and Repulicans delegating to each topic.
2. I could clearly see that Repulicans are towards conservative and Democrats towards liberal. Repulicans want sorely standing alone while Democrats want to solve problems with other nations. I conclude that Repulicans wants to control while Democrats wants to be control by.
3.Chart showing information about their age, sex, education, etc.

Pg.274
1. It's who voted for who on Presidential race in 2004 by social group with age, income, education, etc.
2. Democrats usually voted for Democrat, also Repulicans vice versa. Minorities, lower-income voted more to Kerry. Jewish voted for Democrat. Once again people tend to follow what group they're in.

Part. B
Voting rights have been changed many times. Looking at the charts for the consideration. People with education voted more, also age contribute to this factors. More interest and power they had tend to voted. Democrats for the poors, Repulicans for the riches. People with no interest or ideas should not vote because every vote counts. They should not vote base on what they like, they should understand what they want and follow that pattern to vote.

FC #3

Out of my Fantasy Congress teams, upper senators are doing quite better then lower senators.
I think that because my upper senators have more legislation,co-sponser and news. Upper senators had more sponsoreds and cosponsoreds then lower senators. I don't think attendance isn't really matter because senator Obama have lower attendance then any others but, still manage to get some great points. However, senator Obama is a well known senator that is why that doen't really matter either. For the rookies and supporters they don't really have that much legislation, sponser, cosponser, or on news, so that they don't really excess senators points. One thing I notices about upper and lower senators followers, they don't do well if they have low attendance points.

FC #2

I picked only Democrat because I am a Democrat. For the upper senator and lower senator, I picked one that is known or famous that people were familiar with. I also looked at their stats such as legislation, news, etc,. I check my FC everyday and I fired the one that don't perform well, specially if they have poor attandence.

My Fantasy Congress Team

Ted Kennedy (D)
Upper Senator

Hillary Clinton (D)
Lower Senator

Dick Durbin (D)
Lower Senator

John Kerry (D)
Upper Senator

Jim Oberstar (D)
Allstar

Sheila Jackson-Lee (D)
Supporting Lineup

Barney Frank (D)
Allstar

Mark Udall (D)
Supporting Lineup

Jim Marshall (D)
Rookie

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D)
Rookie

Entry 1: War in Iraq?????

The most pressing issue in American politics and government today are war in Iraq.
I have chosen this specific typic to discuss because Bush made a huge mistake to go to war in Iraq. So, what do we got out of war in Iraq ? Thousands of service personel lost their life due to the insurgency. Who got what? when and how? I think Bush was trying to bully Iraq and tried to show the world that USA is the major super power nation. In return, Bush is draining billions of taxpayers hard earn money to use in a worstless war. We are so responsibly tied in Iraq that Bush probably do not know how to pull back and when to stop.
"Who gets what , when and how". In this case "who" is Bush and "what" is oil.
"When" makes how long will it takes to drain all the oil out of Iraq and "How" long it will take bush to do it. First of all, the war should have never started. I want to see all the US military come back home. Spend the money on education instead of defense.

Intro

Hi, my name is Yohan.
I am 25 years old and I migrated from Seoul, South Korea when I was around 12 years old.
I am very excited to be in Political Sceince 101 class and curious to learn about our government.
This is probably my last sememster at GCC and I am hoping that I will be attending UCLA next sememster.
Well, my carreer goal is to be a special agent for CIA or NSA as an Signal Language Interceptor.
Becareful what you talk about with your freinds I might be listening to you.... J/K
I have one hobby : playing Texas hold'em ~~ yup I love poker~~!!