Paul Gurtler

Professor Coco
English 1001
November 11, 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Garber, Kent. "Three-Way Race Of 1912 Had It All. (Cover Story)." U.S. News & World
Report 144.3 (2008): 43-44. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Nov. 2016.
(Indent 5 spaces here and do the same for all entries that follow.)This article describes the
race between Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. It goes into detail
about how Roosevelt fought for his third term despite being abandoned by his party, who
nominated Taft. This election is the go to example of why voters dont vote third party,
( Comma splice here. How would you correct it?) the reasoning is that they will take
away votes from the main party. That is exactly what happened with this election, the
Republicans split their votes between Taft and Roosevelt while Democrats united behind
Wilson. The election was a landslide in Wilsons favor. Yet people constantly fear that
voting for third party is detracting from the main party, then they are reason why it is so
hard for third-parties to compete. This article unbiasedly examines the fission of the
Republican party for Democratic gain. (Add information about the authors credibility.)

Letters to the editor: What the electoral college teaches us. (2000, Nov 13). Wall Street
Journal Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/398752066?
accountid=12154

This article talks about the necessary aspects of the electoral college. It draws parallels
between the electoral college and the Senate. Both the Senate and the electoral college
are in place to protect the smaller states from being over ruled by the larger states. I
intend to cite this article to provide a different point of view from the usual anti-electoral
college standpoint. The Wall Street Journal has high standards of what gets printed. The
author clearly demonstrates his knowledge on the topic and takes an uncommon stance
on this issue. This particular article attempts to refute the most common arguments
against the electoral college. ( Add his/her name and qualifications to write on the
subject.)

Nader, Ralph, and Theresa Amato. "So You Want To Run For President? Ha! Barriers To ThirdParty Entry." National Civic Review 90.2 (2001): 163. Academic Search Complete. Web.
10 Nov. 2016.
This is a firsthand account of the difficulties of running for president on a third-party
ticket. Ralph Nader was the Green Party candidate in 2000, and he details all of the
obstacles that he faced along the way to election day. From the struggle to be covered in
the media, to even getting on a states ballot, Nader goes in depth with the important
issues. I will be discussing the disproportionate amount of public awareness that the two
parties get simply because of their money and status and how it seems to shun the thirdparty candidates. This article talks about everything that is wrong with our current
process. This is a published first-hand experience of what the difficulties that are faced
when running for president. (This is a strong entry.)

Nielson, R. (2016, Sep 16). Bring out a third lectern for gary johnson. (Is this how the title
appears in the article, or did you forget to capitalize his name?) Wall Street Journal Retrieved
from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1819621130?accountid=12154
This article is encouraging the idea of a third party playing a role in the debates
specifically Gary Johnson. The author admits to being biased by offering a disclaimer of
being Gary Johnsons campaign manager, (Punctuation mistake here. How might you
correct it?) however he does talk about how the candidates that are allowed to debate are
selected. This he comments on unbiasedly. I aim on using this article to discuss the
process of candidate selection using Gary Johnson as an example. While this article does
contain biased material, it also contains crucial unbiased information about a key process
in the debates.

Roff, Peter. "Rethinking The Electoral College." U.S. News Digital Weekly 7.2 (2015):
17. Academic Search Complete. Web. 11 Nov. 2016.
Many articles talk about disbanding the electoral college. This one of those articles,
(Read this sentence aloud.) however it also talks about viable alternatives to the college.
Now this article is not clearly biased because it also refutes each alternative while also
encouraging the change. I plan on talking about the alternatives that were posited in this
article for the reader to ponder on their own. U.S. News Digital Weekly is known for its
accurate representation of current events. This article is no exemption to the standard of
quality that they have created.

Rutchick, Abraham M., Joshua M. Smyth, and Sara Konrath. "Seeing Red (And Blue): Effects
Of Electoral College Depictions On Political Group Perception." Analyses Of Social
Issues & Public Policy 9.1 (2009): 269-282. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Nov.
2016.
This article is written by Abraham Rutchick, Joshua Smyth, and Sara Konrath.
Rutchick is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University, he
received his PhD in Psychology from University of California. Smyth is a
Professor of Psychology at Syracuse University, he received his PhD in SocialHealth Psychology from Stony Brook University. Konrath is a Research Assistant
Professor at the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of
Michigan. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of
Michigan. They came together and wrote on how labeling each state as red or blue
for presidential elections makes America appear extremely polarized. It relates
rather indirectly to my topic. In their paper they talk about how the winner-takeall method in most states obscures how moderate most states actually are,
however it also obscures third party candidates who approach the majority in a
few states but dont quite make it. The three authors have qualifications that span
from individual psychology to social psychology, and have an expert in
interpreting psychology research data. (You did nice work here in all three areas.)

Tau, B. (2016, Jun 07). Libertarian candidate gary johnson has low recognition numbers, polls
find; majority of americans (Proofread for capitalization.) have never heard of party's

presidential nominee, two surveys show. Wall Street Journal (Online)Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1794187318?accountid=12154
This article focuses on the remarkably low levels of awareness people have for the thirdparty candidate Gary Johnson. The article also reveals that of the people that they polled,
most were voting for Johnson because they did not like the other to candidates. I will be
discussing how the modern day media shuns third-parties to the point where people pay
them no mind. This article is a perfect example. However, since no poll is ever perfectly
accurate, they do provide some base numbers and allow for a margin of error. (How
would you correct the format this to show its a newspaper?) The Wall Street Journal in
itself is credible, but this article provides the base numbers for clarification of the scale of
their poll.