POLICY WRITER

You will write a political platform for your candidate. The platform will include your candidate's positions on five key issues: Education, the Environment, Health Care, and two issues of your choice. The two optional issues need to be approved BEFORE the platform is written.
 

Your candidate must take a stand on these issues. The American public does not approve of candidates that have no opinion! Your platform does not always have to follow party guidelines, but it should not vary too greatly from it either. If your candidate takes severe shifts from the party platform, it would be unlikely that he/she would gain the nomination of their party. Make sure you begin with the General Resources for the entire campaign team before you start looking in your resources. Sample platforms can be found under Resources.
 

You will need to coordinate your efforts with the other members of the campaign team. They may need to use some of your information for their portion of the project.
 

The platform needs to be presented to the class in a multimedia presentation and a diskette copy will be collected. HyperStudio and PowerPoint are two examples of acceptable formats. Other multimedia formats must be approved by the instructor prior to completion of the project.