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ELECTION DAY HOLIDAY

to be on the first Tuesday in November? As with a variety of U.S. historical activities, it wasnt always that way. Beginning in 17...

Was the Introduction of the Digital Economy Act 2010 Wise Legislation?

the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, it was also sponsored by the minister for Culture, Media and Sport; Be...

Are Good Leaders Likely to be Tall?

In 1924, 1970 and 1976 the US elections for president were not won by the tallest candidate, in the others the tallest candidate h...

2010: A NATIONAL TIDE?

two in the Senate. Cook, however, wrote his column when the bloom was still somewhat on the Obama rose, and before people began be...

FDI Influences in India and Iraq

reduce smoking in India (Lamont and Yuk, 2010). However, this has been a controversial decision, not only was cigarette manufactu...

Strom Thurmond

"to presidential maverick... His penchant for bucking established norms first surfaced when he decided to enter the political aren...

Woodrow Wilson and the Election of 1912

the 1912 campaign, Roosevelt was shot, but he recovered ("Biographies," 2001). What happened was that when campaigning in Milwauke...

The Presidency and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson

and 1776, and there he would write the Declaration of Independence ("Thomas Jefferson," 2007). In 1786, he helped to author a bill...

Ukraine - Orange Revolution And After

they would use it with the world watching as the events were broadcast on television and reading about it in other media (Karatnyc...

Media Influence on Elections and Policy

a long election, and continued to be so" (Butler, 2006). The media reported this and then repeated it throughout the night. They...

An Outline of Religion in the 2000 and 2004 Elections

Votes by religion: Bush: 56% Protestant, 62% white Protestant, 68% Evangelical, 53% mainline, 47% Catholic, 52% white non-Hispanic...

New York State's Surviving Spouse's Right of Election

of changes were implemented and these are worth exploring. Before progressing deeper into the intricacies of New York Estate Law,...

NJ and NY Politics

true even though New Jersey is a much more conservative state. Still, the proof is in the outcome. Interestingly, New York had ele...

House and Senate Battle in the 2002 Election

Senate meant everything to both parties but was particularly important to the Democrats, whose majority hung "by a frayed thread"1...

Editor Michael Nelson's The Elections of 2000

In many ways it seemed to be an incredibly heated battle between the democrats and republicans as each vied, perhaps more powerful...

A New Type of American Voting System

election officials; the fact that every election year millions of American citizens are effectively disqualified from the voting b...

Voting Behavior and Religion

In ten pages this paper summarizes sixteen articles that consider how American voting patterns of behavior are influenced by relig...

The Polish Free Elections and the Breakup of the USSR

control over the military.1 Thus, the nation faced dual rule, and was (and remains) in transition. This is relevant to our questio...

Comparison in Politics

other on the real issues. Both promoted remaining in Iraq for the duration; both maintained that "something" has to be done about...

U.S. Government System's Legitimacy

and not establish mandatory arbitrary regulations which would deprive some citizens of their rights while affording additional rig...

The Influence of Tobacco Money in U.S. Politics

gave more than $32.6 million in PAC and soft money contributions to politicians of both parties (Tobacco Interests, 2002). The rea...

Process of Electing American Presidents

the Electoral Vote (which is formally ratified upon completion of the election). The problem is, however, that based on this syste...

1997 and 2001 UK Labour Party Successes

win, however, this did not happen. Both Labour and the Conservatives were both surprised at the result. Neil Kinnock had been at a...

The Skills Needed to Become President and the Skills Needed to Be President

last elections candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore. "We are steadily gaining in our ability to reclaim control of Americas dest...

Significant Events in American History between the late 1950s and 2002

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

2000 Presidential Election and the Case of Bush v. Gore

Because winning the state of Florida at that point of the game would determine who the next president would be, it was clearly a t...

Life and Times of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin was educated in schools in Georgia that were segregated (Nobelprize.org, 2009). He graduated high school when he was 15 and...

Organizational Theory And Unifying A Nation

details about the exact smears that were used.] Another of the differences with the 2004 election had to do with information tech...

Clinton 'Fatigue' and the Presidential Campaign of Al Gore

a positive political atmosphere for Gore to succeed him (Wattenberg 164). Clinton saw Gores defeat as being intrinsically tied to ...

U.S. Presidential Elections and the Impact of the Minority Vote

allow the potential electoral success of racial minorities" (Richie and Hill 1998, PG). President Bushs plans regarding th...