Hi everyone,
I’d like to do two things with the discussion this week. First, provide a little personal background and reflections on the electoral landscape. Second, interact with a news article about the election.
For your first post, due Friday at midnight, (1) Write a few sentences about who you are, where you’re from, and what your (non-POS 3273) summer plans are; (2) A few sentences giving your thoughts on the 2022 or 2024 elections–what has been interesting to you about them, perhaps, or discussing how things have or haven’t gone the way that you thought that they would. Then, (3): find and interact with a news article about the upcoming elections. Specifically, I’d like you to identify a claim or prediction in an article, and reflect on how or when we might actually assess whether the claim was true or the prediction had occurred. Your post should provide the title and link to an article that a class colleague can find and read. In all, the post should be 400 words or more.
For your second post, due Monday at midnight, read another student’s first post and the article that he or she wrote about. In about 200 words, give your thoughts on the article and the prediction/claim in the article. Does the claim seem reasonable? Does your colleague’s idea about how/when it could be verified ring true to you? This reply post should be 150-200 words.
Finding articles
A great place to start when following American politics is Politico’s Playbook, which is published daily and provides links to articles from all over the country. You can see the current edition here: https://www.politico.com/playbookLinks to an external site.
If the article is not from a paywalled source, it’s easy-peasy (just click). But lots of news sources have paywalls these days. Fortunately, the UCF Library provides free access to news from five of the biggest newspapers in the country: the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Go to library.ucf.edu, click “Databases” and enter the term “US major dailies” (the library website may require you to log in. From there, you can access virtually everything that appears in one of these papers.