By NIKKI GHAEMI Staff Writer
Conservative Justice's extreme take on the issue of voting rights marks yet another attempt of voter suppression in America and is a hallmark of the GOP’s approach to voting rights in 2020.
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Category: Election Edition 2020
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Teens, Trump, and Tiktok
By SAGE LAMOTT Staff Writer
By now, the Trump TikTok controversy has become a commonly discussed topic in chat rooms and households around the United States. The bigger question teenagers are posing is why? Why target this specific company and yet continue to ignore Facebook’s spreading of misinformation, largely propagated by his own supporters?
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Trojan Outlook: Election Edition
By ERIN JEON, KRISHNA KHAWANI, CLAIRE CHOI Features Editors
On October 9, 2020, the Sword & Shield opened up the Trojan Outlook: Election Edition survey to UHS students in anticipation of the 2020 presidential election. This survey serves to create a more comprehensive understanding of the student body. 169 students participated in the anonymous survey covering questions about their political leanings, candidates of choice, and news sources.
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When Politics and Social Media Collide: Twitter Fact Check
By YASNA RAHMANI Staff Writer
Are you wondering if you have read any misleading information on Twitter? Now you can find out.
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Behind the Scenes of a Political Campaign
By SYDNEY GAW Staff Writer
As the voting period for the 2020 election continues, you may have seen advertisements for a particular candidate or state proposition. We can get a glimpse of what a candidate stands for through the political ads that run in between our favorite shows or YouTube videos. However, a thirty second advertisement does not convey the hours spent drafting the campaign and working behind the scenes to make these ads effective. Many people often forget that a political campaign team—much like any sports team—relies on the contribution of multiple people and departments to be successful. From volunteers to political consultants, each individual plays an important part in moving the campaign forward.
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Changing the Narrative: A Closer Look at Mayor Christina Shea
By JULIE SAKAMOTO Staff Writer
A good narrative requires a rational yet compelling story. However, it also requires the identification of characters as either protagonists or antagonists, good guys or bad guys. When people are pitted against one another, the only possible winner is the author of the narrative.
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Electronic Voting and Why We Aren’t Ready Yet
By KIAN MAHMOUDI Staff Writer
So then the election comes around and I begin to wonder: why is voting, this extremely important, mass-scale operation involving the inputs of every citizen in the country, conducted on good old fashioned holepunched paper?
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Promises Kept? An Analysis on Trump and Biden’s Claims on Healthcare
By JULIE SAKAMOTO Staff Writer
Healthcare is one of the most important issues in this years election. When it comes to Biden vs Trump on healthcare, is there a clear cut winner?
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Orange County Voters Now Predominantly Democrat For First Time in 80 Years
Orange County, for the first time in 80 years, has more voters registered as Democrat than Republican.
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Mail-In Voting Encouraged By States Despite Political Fraud Allegations
Mail-in ballots will be cast in unprecedented numbers in the upcoming election largely due to safety concerns surrounding COVID-19.