POL_S 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Watergate Scandal
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Democratic national committee let ia do it first: a small state, complex caucus procedures, more personal interactions between candidates and voters. What if other states want to be first: they have incentives to hold early caucuses or primaries, federal democratic party rules prohibit any state, except for. Iowa, new hampshire, nevada and south carolina from holding its primary before february 5th, or super tuesday: some states like florida, michigan attempted to have their primaries early. Democratic national committee threaten those states by stripping their delegates to the democratic national. In matters of national security: the press is less likely to be successful at monitoring the actions of the government. At times politicians fail to tell the truth: watergate cover-up, clinton"s denial of an affair with monica lewinsky, the bush administration"s iraq war rationales. The process of adjusting overage of an issue according to the level of disagreement and debate about that issue among policy elites.
