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.

* Campaigns give us a great deal of happiness by their finally
   ending.