The Wessex Wire’s 2020 U.S. Election Coverage

Obama Administration Important Climate Milestones  (details obtained from obamawhitehousearchives.com) Reduced the federal government’s emissions by 17 percent Created standards for greenhouse gases like methane and carbon in the private sector In 2015, he led the U.S. initiative to join the Paris Agreement  Set standards for appliances, cutting consumer’s electricity bills by hundr...

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden have very opposite opinions on healthcare and the Affordable Care Act. Both presidential candidates agree that health care costs should be reduced. However, the candidates differ in view in terms of how much of a role the government should have in healthcare. President Trump wants to reduce the federal government’s role in Americans’ health car...

Present-day social media gives people direct access to a universe of possibilities to interact, entertain and inform the rest of society; although it emphasizes togetherness, social media maintains the worst influence on our opinions as individuals: the upkeep of fake and altered news.  Social media’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election maintains the teetering scale of accuracy and mi...

With the coronavirus pandemic causing a huge shift of the electorate to vote-by-mail, 2020 has become arguably one of the most controversial election years. The Electoral College is a vital part of the election process, but it has become more difficult to understand since there’s been two recent elections (2000 and 2016) in the past 20 years, where the winner didn’t win the popular vote. The ba...

“Hello, my name is Samara and I’m calling on behalf of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.”  With the election and what may be our country’s impending doom looming on the horizon, it is nearly impossible to avoid emotions of helplessness or anger, especially for me. I am a political devotee, treating presidential elections like the Super Bowl and refusing to miss a single town hall or debate....