How have my views changed? Before starting this project, I had no idea what being an educated voter was. I also never realized the importance of voting. Throughout the election I struggled to understand why we fact-checked because not only was it complicated, it was time consuming. Although, thinking back to this whole process, it is necessary to really understand the presidential candidates and their views. For example, I was assigned the topic China for my candidate Hillary Clinton. I had to research her views on China and what she has said in the past about the country and what her plan is if elected president. This was one of the toughest things in my opinion because she really hasn't said much about China and the little information I found was very complicated but I just had to sit there and figure it out. Eventually all the information made sense and I could continue on to my other topics.
As for my opinion on the current state of my country and my opinions on Pres-elect Trump. He's our president, he won fair and square and he got the majority or the electoral college votes. I can only hope that Donald Trump makes the right decisions for the US. When I had first heard he was elected President, I wasn't sure what to think, wheather it was good or bad. But now, it's different. It happened and it's done. I just hope he doesn't do anything to affect the people around me, my peers, people I see everyday.