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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...

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...

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...

Bush v. Gore and the Electoral College

the problems that cropped up during this time prompted people to re-examine the electoral college and its relevance in todays day ...

Designing a New Political System

can stand for election, telling the electorate what they stand for any their policies. The electorate will then vote for the perso...

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...

Opinion Polls and Public Opinion

opinions polls recorded was a straw poll in 1824 that was undertaken on Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. This was a political opinion a...

Elections Which Have Made History

capturing a majority of the popular vote in 15 northern and western states" (Schofield, Miller & Martin, 2002). There were three ...

Presidential Election of 2000 and Black Disenfranchisement

statistics are quite intriguing. At the same time, the ballots which were considered to be spoiled were really occurring at a rate...

Presidential Elections and the Influence of Lobbying

as soft money and issue advocacy" (Newlin Carney 337). However, pro-reform activist groups are adamant about the issue of raising...

2002 General Elections in Turkey, Negative Publicity, and Victorious AKP

message and impression of unity. There had been a great deal of negative publicity and actions by the competing parties who did no...

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,...

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...

Election System of the United Kingdom

1918 following the suffragette movement, but the vote was only given to women over the age of thirty years under the Representatio...

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...

Voting Behavior and Religion

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

A John Kerry Presidential Campaign Assessment

speech. Of course, the American military involvement in Iraq remains a lightning rod of controversy and conflicting opinions. Al...

Election Campaign Communications and Ronald Reagan

the only person who could make him feel lonely "simply by leaving the room" (Bock, 2004). Her love for him in return was as clear ...

Presidential Election of 2004 and Theory of Social Conflict

theorists, the political system is a completely biased institution which focuses more on the working class, which they claim expla...

U.S. Government System's Legitimacy

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

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...

Electoral Process Advantages in U.S. Presidential Elections

the Constitution of the United States met in Philadelphia in 1787 for the constitutional convention they had already lived under 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...

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 ...