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Debating The Politics Disad: A. How To Pick Your Disad
Debating The Politics Disad: A. How To Pick Your Disad
Debating The Politics Disad: A. How To Pick Your Disad
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-It is difficult on this topic to go for politics vs case. Very very difficult
-if it access everything and you kick it it screws up everyones impact in the debate.
6. Impact Debate an impact turn
-Focus on one that you can impact terminally
-Access all of their terminal impacts wherever possible
-focus on uniqueness to their impact turns
D. 2nr on Politics
-How much of the case do you solve/how much of the case do they win?
If the case is big focus on the magnitude of the impact
If the case is minimal focus on the link and uniqueness.
-If you have played your cards right you should be okay on the impact
-have a 2nr extension of the uniqueness ev written out before the debate
-talk about specific link warrants as tied to the bill. Not political capital.
-Think about it in a macro world. Healthcare/diseases vs De-Alert.
E. Questions Asked
How do I make politics in the 1nr more viable versus big affs?
Is it a net benefit to something less unpopular?
Yes have to win that spin. Its about the risk of losing the vote.
Should you go for it with case or not?
F. Glossary
1. Types of disads
1. Rider DAs
2. Backlash DAs
3. Agenda Crowd-out DAs
4. Bipart DAs
5. Bush agenda DAs
2. Link argument glossary
1. Political Capital its a lot like being a Don in the mafia all about favors
2. Flip Flops key to capital
3. Olive Branches/Concessions
4. Focus
5. Public Popularity
6. Base Support the gold standard
7. Winners Win lion tamer theory
8. Winners-Lose banker [party will backlash]
9. Bipar/Partisan
10. Use these in conjunction as long as they are unique
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4. make an assessment on uniqueness can I decrease the risk talk about what it means to win a chunk of
uniqueness.
5. dont be pscyhophrenic
6. you will be behind on uniq & impact debate against good politics teams. You should be ahead on the link
debate and internal link debate.
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Researching Politics
Researching politics
1. Search the week before Bush congress to create a list of disads
2. make friends to find out what other disads are being read
a. college friends
b. camp friends from across the country
c. use cross-x and files to purchase indexes to find out what will be read
3. create your list of all possible disads and start researching
a. uniqueness both ways
b. mpx defense to most unless uniqueness is overwhelming in a particular way you dont need
c. IL answers to the impact you want to read
4. Once you decide uniqueness is one sided pick a disad based on that all good debaters know this
a. Brute force strategy for researching politics
i. type title into google news & lexis-nexis and read EVERY article
ii. copy articles into WORD and change key words to bold to improve processing speed
b. finesse strategy for researching politics
i. refine your searches to make sure you cover everything that is in the lit
ii. cut enough articles to guarantee uniqueness if you cant guarantee keep working
c. things you do regardless of your strategy
i. make a list of the non-unique warrants cut/write answers for the block
ii. make sure Bush is key to the passage research this including phrases like political capital
5. impact research
a. if you are aff dont impact turn research link turns & have uniqueness
b. make sure you have a big external and internal impact scenarios
c. be prepared for mpx turns before you read a disad
d. go old school to look for new and varied mpx
i. think tanks discuss proposed bills in congress
ii. congressional testimony is great for economy internal links
6. Link uniqueness file research these for the aff & Neg
a. PC yes/no
b. congress likes each other doesnt like each other
c. Bush getting wins now Bush losing now
d. Bipart now / Partisan now
e. Bush making concessions now no concessions now
f. bush popular / unpopular
7. Have a solid internal link file
a. produced one at most camps so they are online
b. research what is key to the agenda at the start of each semester to improve your link arguments
c. use old school cards to support your updated link & uniqueness arguments
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3. non unique no PC
1. very few of these cards say no PC. They often say low or are assumptive of a weakened president.
2. evidence indicts because these are usually written from a very conservative set of news sources.
3. your evidence assumes this says he has enough with specific groups. IF, for example, your card says he
has enough to win over particular groups to get votes then you are okay. BE careful if your PC key card is older.
4. cut a few. Sometimes tough but always written in some context. Not always use the phrase political capital.
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8. Plan popular
It isnt about being popular or unpopular see my article in the 3nr journal. Something can be both popular
and unpopular it is about the relative power of that group for the particular bill vis--vis the other people.
You need to generally control this.
a. public
1. good cards exist in the abstract & better cards exist in election years.
2. good evidence saying that the public response takes time to build up
3. public popularity is used for the election
b. congress
1. this is the only true link turn in my mind. BUT need to point out who it is talking about and why they are
relevant.
2. needs to speak to congress NOT to individual members of congress they are totally irrelevant.
c. generally
weigh the popularity versus the unpopularity of a group.
Old People, Big Industries, Israeli Lobby these are powerful. A lot of others arent really all that pouplar.
d. lobbies
I dont care unless they provide political cover.
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9. plan is bipart
1. this phrase just means that there are members of both parties that like it not that it is popular with a
majority a single democrat makes a bill bipartisan. That isnt really all that revelant.
2. no evidence that bipart is key to the actual passage of the bill. Need to focus on the importance of political
capital to the passage of the bill.
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10. winners-win
What does it mean to be a win? A president has been pushing for the passage of something and gets it done. A
win is something you fight for not something that just falls in your lap. It helps if:
a. it was tough to get done/unpopular
b. it results in the image that someone is awesome.
The lion-tamer theory of political capital.
These do not require you win any other part of the link turn debate IF they win that winners-win then
everything else is irrelevant. BUT, winning the other stuff doesnt hurt the winners-win argument.
Answering it
1. plan isnt a win
2. obama cant win too much backlash
3. if true long time frame
When in doubt read cards.
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11. entropy
Use it or lose it.
Not true president is using it.
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