...Presidential Elections Andres B. Ronquillo HIST122A 15 July 2012 Our nation’s first presidential election took place in 1789, when Americans voted for electors and they voted for Washington, who ran and won without much opposition. However, it is 2012 and it has been over 200 years since that first election took place. Many things have changed since then, including the election process its self. I am not going to get into much detail about the process, Instead I will focus this paper on the changes we, as a nation, went through. I will focus more on the issues that have changed us the most, as a nation. Through the course of this class I have learned that some of the issues we have had in the past were based on race, gender, illiteracy and even poverty. I will touch on some of these issues but only briefly. Instead I will talk about present day presidential elections and how even though we have changed a lot of the major issues that affected the election process, there are still many issues that still affect us today. I will mainly focus on one of these issues. The Problems I will discuss will be focused around the military vote, mainly because I am in the Army and have friends/ family that are in the military. The problems with the absentee ballot system, are part of the issues I will discuss. It will be four years, in November, since President Obama was elected as our nation’s 44th President. Just like in 2008 and every other Presidential election year, we the people...
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...Presidential Elections and Voters In order for one to become president of the United States, he or she must gain the votes from the public. There are various ways of getting votes. Nominees go through months of campaigning to get the votes necessary to win the state. Some believe that the public makes the decision for president long before the campaigns even start, and others believe that the campaigns are necessary to gain votes for a president. A campaign in itself is not necessary to influence the public's decision. The focus is not whether the campaign has the influential power to change people's opinion, but the focus is on the actual individual who is voting. The individual has the power to choose whether to let the campaign influence his or her opinion or to make the decision before the campaign. There are both cases when the individual makes a decision for president before the campaign starts and when the individual makes a decision for president because of the influence of the campaign. Campaigns do matter in a democratic society and they are important to a certain extent for those who actually follow the campaigns, but they are not as important for everyone. Not anyone can just run for president. There are certain qualifications that a person must have to become president. He or she must prove the nation that he or she is able to lead a nation. The, " qualities of the candidate are extremely important influences on how people vote" (Fiorina and Peterson 302). Campaigns...
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...Since most Americans do not get to have a conversation with the presidential candidates themselves, they depend on the media to get to know them. For this reason, the media has always played an important role in presidential elections. The media has been and is being used as a tool to address issues head on to overcome scandals, to achieve political gains, by using all forms of social media to their advantage to get out their name and change the curve in presidential elections. As mass communication has grown and changed over the last 40 years so has the way it effects the presidential elections. Media was once defined as television, radio and print which includes newspapers and magazines. Traditional media has grown into a 24/7 news cycle...
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...The goal of this paper is to find evidence of the use and impact of social media in the 2012 presidential election. This is because it was reported that President Obama won the elections because of the ground operation presented by volunteers of his elections' campaigns (CNN Wire 1). I chose this topic since reports in state media indicated that the Republican Party was leading in the pre-election polls, but in the end the Democratic Party won due to the use of technological innovation (Edsall 1). An in depth analysis reveals that the presidential contest favored President Obama for using social media. Social media is increasingly an easy, fast, and effective way for people to have personal contact through technology. The intention is to prove...
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...10 Things to Note About Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Election Share 0 0 0 0 [pic] Jide Akintunde 1. President Jonathan’s statesmanship and Nigeria’s propensity to surprise the world: It is the nature of politics and governance: one major event often defines the outcome of an election or public perception of a regime. Therefore, the most remarkable outcome of Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election is that President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat to General Muhammadu Buhari in a very timely fashion. This good sportsmanship of President Jonathan immediately conferred statesmanship on him. His presidency will be remembered for nothing better or worse because what he delivered is what was mostly important to Nigeria, Nigerians and the world: peaceful outcome of the election. That the one who fostered electoral best practice became its major victim is an irony; but it is not a cruel irony. It is what has earned President Jonathan greatness. If he had been the beneficiary of his efforts which made the elections that held during his presidency far more credible than all the previous elections in the history of independent Nigeria, the positive shift he has now given Nigerian elections would not have been very obvious, significant and pace-setting. Indeed, we could not have missed the sacrifice of President Jonathan in this election. On national television stations, we saw the President wait on his feet for a fruitless over 30 minutes for INEC’s card readers to accredit him, his wife and...
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...The United States elections have become awash in money. More than ever, from the presidential elections to the local elections there has been a significant quantity of undisclosed donations referred to as dark money. Dark Money describes election funds from nonprofit organizations that do not have the obligation to disclose their contributors. However, any election funding that stems from organizations who are not required to disclose their donors is considered dark money. As well these nonprofits are not allowed to be political. Although they donate a large amount to candidates, the donor groups are limited to the form of speech they can produce for a candidate. They have to create issue ads which aren’t deemed to be political since the ads...
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...until now, I have noticed the major difference in the amount of advertisements, and the continuity of some advertisement shown on various websites. Most people find them extremely annoying, and their first instinct is to click the x in the top, right corner without even looking to see what the advertisement promotes, however, that’s because no one thinks about the large sum of money spent on the many ads, why so much is spent of them, and how many people are actually making decisions based on the advertisements. Presidential and other elections are now strongly depending on the internet as a way of not only campaigning, and advertising, but also communicating with the public. Candidates are using various tools and websites to reach out to the community and keep them informed. Since the increase in the use of technology, and internet, fundraising and advertising are much easier and more effective. Senator John McCain’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination faced the overwhelming advantage his opponent had in fundraising. After McCain’s victory in New Hampshire his campaign turned to the internet to raise money and sign up volunteers. Not only did they raise 2.2 million dollars...
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...THST 1200 Languages of Media Exam 4. In what ways does your assessment of the American Presidential election reflect how you live in a filter bubble, as described by Eli Pariser? Eli Pariser describes a filter bubble as “personal unique info [that] you live in online” (Pariser). The American election reflects how we live in a filter bubble because the way that we perceived the entire election was through the media. Whether it was television, radio, or the internet; the media was used to represent what was happening at all times during the election process. If a person has predominantly democratic views, and has been voting for democrats for much of their lives, most of their online searches will depict democratic interest. When browsing...
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...Val Collins US Gov Period 2 3/20/2018 Presidential Election of 2000 The presidential election that took place between George W. Bush and Al Gore was not legitimate. The recount that was stopped by the supreme court may have ended with Gore with the most votes. The latest figures that were published on December 21,2000 recalled that Gore had 50,996,064 votes, while George W. Bush had 50,456,167 votes. The number of votes were very close to each other. Bush had lost the vote by 539,897 which would have been close to the amount of people who would have voted...
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...Haven’t you noticed that the television and media has brought down many presidential candidates? Where on TV they say the most bizarre things, that one person may not just normally proclaim? Our past presidents have been dragged into such cases, and now we’re witnessing this again with our current candidates. Television and media can spread anything and everything a person says like wildfire, and make it sound like they said something they did not. Television has made a negative impact on presidential elections because it influences people to vote on “image” than what they actually say, it makes candidates say things that they would not normally say, and it does not always spread the whole truth of said candidate. Media and television depend...
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...is he likely to win again?. Using sources such as newspapers, online journals and poll websites to evaluate how successful Romney’s campaign will be. Romney The man, the plan. Mitt Romney has emerged through the rankings of the Republican Party to run in the 2012 Presidential campaign. Romney attended Harvard University where he studied law and business. He later moved on to become a high powered business executive who swiftly stepped into his father’s former position as Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. Even though he only served one term he quickly had his sights set higher but he was unsuccessful in his first attempt at becoming a Presidential candidate when he lost out to John McCain in 2008. Successful the second time around, he is committed to making sure someone in the race “understands” the Economy. During the race for the 2012 Presidential campaign he is following the strategy that political scientist Lynn Vavurect would call a “Clarifying campaign”, he is ensuring that the current bleak state of the economy and the excessively high rate of 8% national unemployment is at the forefront of voter’s minds. Campaign strategy such as this has been successful in the past. In 1980 during his Presidential campaign Ronald...
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...2016 Presidential Election I have chosen to write about the candidate Ted Cruz from the 2016 presidential election. I will be discussing Mr. Cruz’ political stance on immigration, gun control, and gay rights. We also discuss how David Easton, Harold Lasswell, and Hans Morganthan apply to our political parties now in days. The first issue we shall deliberate on is immigration because it has been a hot topic during the debates. The Texas Senator has a website discussing his stance on this issue and what he would do to change it like building a wall to prevent illegal immigrants or terrorist from crossing over to American soil. He also wants to triple the border patrol agents to secure the wall. He has also said that he would put an end to President Obama’s amnesty by rescinding all those that he gave out. He has always been trying to strengthen our immigration system. For an instance, when he filed an amendment that would block illegal immigrants that are living in the United States from ever getting their citizenship, strengthen border security, prohibit federal, state, and local benefits from giving assistants to undocumented immigrants. In an article from the U.S. News Cruz stated that: The amendments filed today to strengthen border security and reform our legal immigration system will not only bring meaningful, effective improvements to our immigration system, but also have a chance of becoming law. America is a nation of immigrants, built by immigrants and we need...
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...The 2016 Presidential Election and the Role Racism Played in It The January 20, 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States will be recalled in future textbooks as an example of racism in the nation affecting politics. Throughout the primary campaign season, Trump did not carry himself with the respect that a politician should while running for president. Trump took a different route: he decided to inflame racist feelings throughout the nation in order to win. In this essay, I will argue that Donald Trump leveraged racism to win by provoking feelings of fear among some Americans. I believe that when people are afraid they will act and in this case, their actions enabled Trump’s presidential victory. Moreover,...
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...Over the years there has been a lot of things that have changed with the presidential election but the few things that have always been the biggest factor in this is race and gender. The main things that make this so substantial is time period, current standing in economy, and protests. To start off with we are going to go all the way back to February 3rd, 1870 and this was when the 15th amendment was passed saying that government could not deny a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or background. This was the start of the big role African Americans play into the presidential election today. Now we move on quite a bit as well and go to August 18th, 1920 and this was when women first got their right to vote. It took 50 years after...
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...TEST 09.03 The American presidential election: * What phase /stage are we still in now, - and what is the situation in the two main parties after “Super Tuesday”?¨ Right now we are in the pre-election stage, where the candidates from the different parties will fight for representatives and to be a candidate for their party. After Super Tuesday: Democrats: On the democrat side, we can see that Hillary is in the lead, much more so than Bernie sanders. Hillary has gained quite the popularity and is already acting as if she will be the next president. Bernie Sanders managed to get some wins but not enough to beat Hillary. It is not looking too good for Bernie Sanders. Republicans: On the republican side, we have three representatives. Donald Trump, Marko Rubio and Ted Cruz. Donald Trump is in the big lead right now, and it seems more likely that he will be the candidate for the Republican Party. Second in lead after Trump is Ted Cruz. Marko Rubio is also gaining some traction now after Super Tuesday, but has a long to go if he wants to beat Trump. What seems likely now after Super Tuesday is that from the Democratic Party we will see Hillary Clinton, and from the Republican Party we will see Donald Trump. * Donald Trump has done much better than generally expected: Discuss possible reasons for Trump`s success: I think that the number one reason for Trump’s success is that he is a businessperson more than he is a politician, which means a lot to some people in...
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