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Rhett Hughes

What the presidential candidates believe | PBS NewsHour - 4 views

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  • Rhett Hughes on 11 Feb 16
     
    Great way to get a snap shot of what all the candidates believe on major issues.
Christina Briola

Project Vote Smart - American Government, Elections, Candidates and Voting - 11 views

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  • Christina Briola on 01 Dec 10
     
    Good site to see where the candidates stand.
GoEd Online

10 Election 2012 Teaching Resources You Should Know About - 8 views

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    Election 2012 is all over the news and, with just a few short weeks remaining until the "big day," your students are probably asking tons of questions about this exciting process. If you're looking for great teaching resources on voting, the candidates and/or the Electoral College, you've come to the right place!
Mary Higgins

Series - Council on Foreign Relations - 4 views

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  • Mary Higgins on 08 Jul 12
     
    Compares US presidential candidates positions on foreign policy issues.
Bette Lou Higgins

Ohio's Presidential Particulars - 0 views

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  • Bette Lou Higgins on 12 Jul 09
     
    Ohio presidents and women candidates including Victoria Woodhull and Marie Brehm
Mr Maher

"The GOP organized in the 1850s" Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) on Twitter: - 3 views

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US I Unit 5 Manifest Destiny and Sectionalism reading

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  • Mr Maher on 01 Dec 19
     
    This narrative of the sectionalism and the growth of the Republican party is every bit as valid as the narrative canon, though its significantly different. The bullet point nature of this Twiiter thread and its natural inclusion of primary source documents makes this a strong candidate as the baseline reading assignment for US history students
Andrew William

Responsible Fiscal Support Even With Low Credit Rating Via Online - 2 views

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shared by Andrew William on 18 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • Andrew William on 18 Nov 16
     
    The approach of low credit payday loans has set up new terms and conditions for the financial influenced individuals. Presently, the borrowers don't need to put a great deal of endeavors in getting the store over the span of the crisis in light of the fact that there are times when the negative credit holders are denied of the financial offer assistance. Be that as it may, now, it is not happening on the grounds that with the assistance of previously mentioned advances, the candidates can obtain the store regardless of having downsides.
Evan Graff

The Living Room Candidate - 1 views

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    Videos
Aaron Palm

Gus Hall (1910-2000): Stalinist operative and decades-long leader of Communist Party USA - 2 views

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  • The Stalinist apparatus in the Kremlin was able to carry out its taming of the American party in large measure by appropriating the mantle of the Russian Revolution. At the same time it exploited ideological and political weaknesses within the American party and the US labor movement in general, weaknesses that took the form of national provincialism and indifference to theory.
  • By the time of the Great Depression, which brought new political opportunities and challenges in the US and elsewhere, the Stalinist grip on the American CP was complete.
  • Equating Stalinism with Marxism, this group saw the crisis of the bureaucracy as proof that the building of a Marxist party in the working class was impossible.
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  • Earl Browder, general secretary of the party during this period, dubbed communism “twentieth century Americanism.” The party devoted itself to fervent support of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and gave even more enthusiastic support to Stalin's purges and the counterrevolutionary terror
  • 1956 and 1958 the majority of CP members, increasingly demoralized and lacking any clear analysis of the upheavals taking place within the Soviet bloc, simply left the party.
    • Aaron Palm
      Aaron Palm on 11 Jul 10
       
      The new leadership of the Communist Party in 1958 found that bringing Communism to the US working class was impossible (It had been tied to Stalin who was hated by all in America.)  So they decided to get their way by workign within the exisiting political structure.  They became staunch supporters of the Democratic Party and the Unions to make their initiatives reality.  
  • They remained unswerving in their support for the Democratic Party and the trade union bureaucracy. Millions of American workers, students and youth found themselves well to the left of the misnamed Communist Party during the 1960s and 1970s. The CPUSA, or what remained of it, could always be relied upon—in the struggle for civil rights, the movement against the war in Vietnam, and upsurges of working class militancy—to prop up the AFL-CIO and the Democrats in the White House, Congress and state and local office.
  • The CP, in fact, has supported every Democratic candidate for US President from Roosevelt to Gore, with the single exception of the 1948 race,
  • The Stalinists barely complained of the AFL-CIO's record of corruption, strike-breaking and anti-immigrant chauvinism, and avidly backed its support for the Democratic Party representatives of big business. All they wanted was the opportunity to serve the American trade union bureaucracy as they had before the Cold War. Hall would often hark back to the days when the “center-left” alliance of Stalinists and labor bureaucrats worked in tandem for Roosevelt.
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