Hello all. I’m giving a presentation tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday 1:30 pm) to an AP Government class (that is, a class of high school seniors taking a course for college credit). It's a new theme -- asking students to understand US political myth, and some new material, especially on Why it Matters and What to do. Any comments would be most appreciated.

Here is some of the material I'll cover:  US Political Myth - presentation 00.doc (49.50 kb)

The basic theme is seeing through the myths. Here are my slides, AP Gov class 080318.ppt (1.48 mb) although i don't really plan to use them. My plan is to just give a 10 minute talk on elections Can be Stolen, Have Been, and Will continue to be. And just fly through the slides to show them that there is an abundance of evidence and analysis behind these conclusions, even though we don't have time to go into that in this short session. Rather, I'll try to focus on the why this is important, and leave time for What Students can do. These final slides, 57-63, are new, and i've been uncomfortable before talking about this. So any comments here would be esepcailly helpful.

Thanks, Steve

* If you just want these last few slides, here they are:  AP Gov class 080318 WhatMatter What To Do.ppt (56.00 kb)

* Handed out by the teacher in advance of my visit: RFK Was the 2004 Election Stolen w pics.pdf (1.31 mb), Freeman & Bleifuss (2006) Preface.pdf (174.91 kb)