From Tara Tate:
Health Care and Poverty are the final
choices for the 2009-2010 national debate topic
The National Federation of State High School Associations recently tabulated debate ballots from 35 states, the National Catholic Forensic League, National Debate Coaches Association and the National Forensic League. The returned ballots narrowed the five proposed topics to two for placement on the final ballot to select the 2009-2010 national high school debate topic. The five topic areas were ranked 1-5 with the two topic areas receiving the lowest totals – Health Care and Poverty– placed on the final ballot. On January 8, 2009, the NFHS will announce the preferred topic area and resolution.
In addition to the NFL NCFL and NDCA, the following states returned ballots:
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Within each of the five topic areas appears one resolution. The resolutions within the two final topic areas are:
HEALTH CARE
Resolved: The United States federal government should establish a universal health care system in the United States.
POVERTY
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.
The following chart summarizes the balloting on the topic areas and their respective resolutions.
** Areas ranked 1-2-3-4-5 with low combined total indicative of top ranking.
** National CX Debate Topic Area Balloting:
110 Space – Topic I
87 Health Care – Topic 2
110 Immigration – Topic 3
155 Federal Elections – Topic 4
108 Poverty – Topic 5
Now look. Let's not be unreasonable here. There's totally great kritikal aff literature on both poverty and health care that you could never find on say, alternative energy. Besides, the national service topic ended up being PHENOMENAL and one of the greatest learning experiences of my life. Lastly, with respect to switching to the 2N...you'll still have to be a 1A in the aff rounds...not sure what you meant by that.
ReplyDeleteYay we get to read the Gilligan card every round. Or the South China Morning Post!!!!
ReplyDeleteCalm down people. There's always ASPEC haha
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ReplyDeletepeople come on ... lets all vote McCain/Palin 08 so we can avoid Obama passing health care reform...and THEN we can debate it...space sucks don't vote for that cuz all the good teams are reading SPS this year anyways
ReplyDeletethese topics blow. no aff ground and the neg lit will blow.
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