KID
POLITICS
Culled from elementary school essays on U.S.
politics:
Universal suffrage means that even the illegible get
to vote.
The
difference between a king and a president is that a
king is the son of his father but a president is
not.
It
is possible to get the majority of electoral votes
without getting the majority of popular votes.
Anyone who can ever understand how this works gets
to be president.
Some
of our presidents never did much else and are famous
only because they became president.
The
president has the power to appoint and disappoint
the members of his cabinet.
Much
has been said about balancing the budget. It has
been found that the budget is more talkable than
balanceable.
The
campaign is when the candidate tells what he stand
for and the election is when the votes tell if they
can stand for his being elected.
Actually, elections are different from politics.
Elections come and go while politics are with us all
the time.
The
winning candidate is elected and inoculated.
In
January, the president makes his Inaugural Address
after he has been sworn at.
Once
he is elected, sometimes the president has to work
24 hours a day until he finds out what he is
supposed to do.
The
nominees are usually called candidates or
campaigners although I have heard them called other
things.
One
of the strictest rules is all dark horses running
for president must be people. Popular votes tell who
is the most popular.
Electoral votes tell who is the most elected.
A
caucus is something people vote in. Sort of a small
booth.
An
overwhelming favorite is a candidate that often
comes over to the convention and whelms the
delegates.
The
jobs of delegates is to resent their states.
Noncommittal is to be able to talk and talk without
saying anything.
Political science is to try to figure out what makes
candidates act that way.
A
split ticket is when you don't like any of them on
the ticket so you tear it up.
When
they talk about the most promising presidential
candidate, they mean the one who can think of the
most things to promise.
Political strategy is when you don't let people know
you have run out of ideas and keep shouting anyway.
A
candidate should always renounce his words
carefully.
We
are learning how to make our election results known
quicker and quicker. It is our campaigns we are
having trouble getting any shorter.
A
candidate should always renounce his words
carefully.
We
are learning how to make our election results known
quicker and quicker. It is our campaigns we are
having trouble getting any shorter.
Campaigns give us a great deal of happiness by their
finally ending.
