TEXAS GOVERNMENT: Becoming an Informed Voter – Researching Your Texas Delegation
The first part will deal with your legislative district and representative; the second part will deal with your state and senator. Interest group scores may be found at Vote Smart.
Document to properly format this essay as you will be required to use formal writing with subheadings as necessary to address and elaborate on each of the following questions in paragraph form:
• What is the recent political history of your district and state?
• EXAS GOVERNMENT: Becoming an Informed Voter – Researching Your Texas Delegation
• Can your district or state be considered to be leaning Republican or Democrat?
• Are the political parties relatively even, or does one party dominate the elections?
• Does your district have a long tradition of supporting one party, or has it been changing in recent years?
• How did your representative and senator come to power? (Thoroughly describe their backgrounds.)
• How do the interest groups (ADA, ACLU, ACU, CC or FRC) rate your representative and senator? (Note: If the Christian Coalition score is not available, you may substitute the Family Research Council score. Include the exact scores from each of these groups. The rationale for this is explained in the presentation.)
• Based on these ratings, would you classify your representative and senator as conservative or liberal? Justify your answer.