Zoe Woody's Government Blog

1. What event has caused Trump to make changes to his staff and advisers? Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives. 2. How did CNN describe the relationship between the president and the Chief of Staff this week? " Kelly and Trump were no longer even speaking to each other. Beyond that, Trump was said to want a chief of staff with more political expertise to help him handle the inevitable investigations and legislative battles with next year’s Democrat-controlled House, and to prepare for the 2020 election." 3. Who was Trump's original Chief of Staff and what job did he come from before that? Reince Priebus was his original Chief of Staff and he was the RNC chair. 4. Why did Trump pick Kelly (the military general) to become his new Chief of Staff? His former Chief of Staff was weak and he replaced him with a strong military guy. 5. In what ways did Kelly influence policy making while he was Chief of Staff? He improved the organization of the White...

1. The polls close after the last person that was in line at the specific time votes. 2. Once the vote is closed, workers shut down machines and download the votes. Workers also run or print out a summary of the voting machine. 3. Phone, modem, hand 4. Getting the votes to the physical location to count takes longer than in urban areas. 5. In some states, the commission doesn't report the voted on election night. 6. Those votes come in after the polls close. 7.  Just in case votes 8. Officiating them takes a few weeks through a process known as the canvass, in which each vote is counted and verified, then officially certified. 9. Speed deterred fraud.

1. A little more than 3%. 2.  On Monday, both CNN and Fox News mentioned the caravan more than 80 times. The next day, it was mentioned more than 40. On Wednesday and Thursday, the subject was raised fewer than 80 times across CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and Fox Business combined. 3. Fox Business 4. Mexico City 5. Midterm elections 6. He made it a huge deal in the weeks leading up to the election then dropped it. 7. Mentions of Comey 8. Ebola 9. Coverage of the caravan was for campaign, and was driven by Fox networks whose audiences are largely supportive of the president.

1. 48,46,40 2. 10,19,14,6,13,11,3,5,13 and uncontested 3. Republicans had 50% of the votes and democrats had 48%. 4. The federal court said they are unconstitutional. 5. They both failed to pick up a single house seat. 6. They had too much republican representation. 9 seats went to each party. 7. Democrats are in urban areas and republicans are in rural areas. 8. They are in charge and they do what they want. 9. They split the votes of the cities. 10. They tried to pass a voting law that targeted African Americans.