What might account for the dramatic increase in presidential pardons issued by president obama in 2016 and 2017

Requests for clemency

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It is true that President Obama, while in his last days in office, has granted clemency to more people convicted of crimes than any president since  Truman. The main reason for this record is the increased number of requests for clemency. This, however, is due to the effort of his own administration to shorten prison terms for nonviolent inmates who were convicted of drugs-related crimes.  

polling is a process and the outcome is not involved in the process itself.

the outcome, which is an unfavorable rating for a particular candidate is not affected by the mechanical process of polling.

it rather depends on the number of people voting in favor of the candidate.

this is an outcome of people's preferences.

he armenian genocide, also known as the armenian holocaust, was the ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million armenians, mostly citizens within the ottoman empire.

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