LASA 1 Create Your Own Political Party
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> LASA 1 Create Your Own Political Party
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> Your family has always been very politically active.  From a young age, you
> have been politically aware.  When you were young, you worked with your
> parents as they supported their political party and you even helped during
> campaigns for the candidates your parents supported.  In college, you were
> a leader of the organization on campus that was part of the political party
> you supported.  This could have been the Young Democrats or the Young
> Republicans or any college group that supported the political party of your
> choice.  Until your exposure at college, you always supported the same
> political party as your parents, but then your views began to change and
> you developed your own  ideas, ideals and expectations.  While you
> continued to remain politically active, you have become more and more
> disillusioned with the current major and third parties and movements on the
> political scene, having studied all thoroughly.  You have come to be
> completely discouraged by the state of the political process as it pertains
> to political parties.  In your opinion,  none of the major or third parties
> truly represents the best interests of the citizens, and you have decided
> to create your own political party.
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> Directions. In a 4-5 page Microsoft Word document, include the following:
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>    1. Name your political party and evaluate why you have chosen that name.
>    2. Create a symbol for your political party and explain why you have
>    chosen that symbol.
>    3. Create a slogan for your political party and justify why you have
>    chosen that slogan.
>    4. Develop  a platform for your political party. A platform is a written
>    outline and explanation of what your party believes in and why.  Your
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>    can be a single-issue party, an ideological party, a splinter party, or
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>    regular broad based political party.  Your platform must have at least
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>    positions under the following topics.  Summarize each platform position.
>       1. Social Issues
>       2. Domestic Issues
>       3. Foreign Policy
>    5. Design a brochure or one-page flyer for your political party that you
>    would hand out to voters to introduce and explain your party.  In this
>    flyer you want to include the essentials of what your party stands for,
>    points of your platform, and  the benefits of joining your party.
>    6. Project what demographic groups would vote for your political party
>    and why. What demographic groups will your political party reach out to
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>    seek support from?
>    7. Predict what regions of the country will support your political party
>    and why? Or, what regions of country will your party win? Justify your
>    claims.
>    8. Compare the areas of support with those of other political parties.
>    9. What main idea or belief is your political party based upon? Why? For
>    example, in the 2008 election, the Democrats focused a lot on the
> economy
>    and the war in Iraq.
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> Some links that may help you understand and assess current political
> parties, which in turn may help you to create your political party.
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>    – The Democratic Party Web site http://www.democrats.org/
>    – Republican National Committee http://www.rnc.org
>    – Politics 1 http://www.politics1.com/ (directory of U.S. political