CMAC: Partial Project 1, Gladiators in Suits (Due February 2)

Due date: Before midnight on February 2, 2018.

Description: Politicians have problems and we are here to fix them. We are fixers, we are gladiators in suits. But first, you need to become familiar with the battleground in this very important election. Why? Because you must have the proper tools to fix a candidate's problems and carry them to victory. We don't pick parties, we make parties. We don't criticize candidates, we make them. If there are scandals, we handle them or use them to our advantage. What's it gonna be? Are you a gladiator in a suit?

Instructions:

In teams of 4 or 5, you will be assigned a political party (PRI, PAN, PRD, Morena, Movimiento Ciudadano, or PVEM). You must create a 1,000 to 1,500-word document and a Sway presentation where you:

1. Describe how your political party was created, who was its founder, and what have been its results since it was created. Who are they and what have they delivered to Mexicans?
2. Make an ideological assessment of your party. What ideology do they follow? Are they congruent with it? Justify your answers with evidence. For example, do its candidates follow a certain ideology? What about its lawmakers? What social issues do they care about?
3. Identify your party's prospects for the 2018 presidential election and any others you may point out as being particularly relevant. Use evidence to justify your assessment.
4. Identify the safe states and the battleground states for your party in the 2018 presidential election. Where are they likely to win and why? Where do they have the potential to win and why? Where is it extremely unlikely that they might win and why?

The Word document should carefully describe these four points, using sources in APA format. The sources and the cover page do not count towards the word count.

You will also make a Sway presentation with this information for your classmates to be able to access it in the future. 

Before midnight on February 2, 2018, upload your Word document with a link to your Sway presentation to Blackboard. Projects that are late, e-mailed, individual, without the team's names, lacking in sources, or incomplete, will be given a zero.

The project will be graded as follows:

Rubric:
Word document has the four points that were requested in the instructions and answers them with proper conclusions out of reliable sources.	25%
Word document has a main idea, a logical explanation of it, and a logical conclusion.	25%
Sway presentation gives a quick and easy run-through of the analysis in the Word document.	30%
Word document has between 1,000 and 1,500 words in total.	10%
Sway presentation has a maximum of 8 slides and a cover page with the team’s members.	10%
	100%

Teams are as follows:

PRI	Paulina Francisco Tristán Lorena Ulises Omar Arellano
PAN	Tania Eliza Rebeca Ana Sofía Omar Mora
PRD	Bruno Gómez Gala Carla Pacheco Bruno Sánchez
Morena	Rafael Sofía Daniela Kevin Alfredo
Movimiento Ciudadano	Santiago Qamra María Espinosa Ameyalli
PVEM	Francisco Ugalde María Montaño Miguel Daniel