The only problem I can envision as being problematic is submitting the reports to the Obama campaign. That turned the assignment from being an exercise in research, critical thinking, and strategy into data gathering for a political ideology. It would seem that a better assignment would have been to assign a candidate to each of the 4 groups and let each group find weaknesses in the other 3 candidates. Then each group would swap research and "fact check" and evaluate each other's work. I guess the upside is that we can now say that the Obama team needs 14 year olds to do their field work.