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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 ...

Analyzing the Gulf War Leadership of President George H.W. Bush

prices, cut the legs off of this machine. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had to be drilling diagonally across the border and tapping the...

Election Outcomes and Political Party Importance

but rather for the candidate who is most electable. For presidential candidates, the election campaign begins a long time before ...

Presidential Campaigns, Debates, Elections, and Coverage by the Media

the transition in regards to technology used by the media in regards to political events can be seen in Borgna Brunners timeline i...

Florida's Election Primary of 2002

one entity can be blamed for the continued problems which interlace South Florida elections, however. Indeed, the fault lies with...

The 2008 Election and the Mass Media

often said, no longer reports public opinion, it drives it. This paper considers the way in which mass media sets the agenda for d...

The 2008 Election and the Democratic Party

Party would witness a more even race and one where more voters had a say in the outcome. After a number of primaries and caucuses,...

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...

Zachary Taylor v Lewis Cass

was what Tatalovich (2010) calls a "blank slate" candidate, a candidate that could win the hearts of the electorate because he was...

THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT: IDEAS AND ACTIVITIES FOR "SPIN"

be taken into account. 1) Medias impact on the voter. Its difficult to determine what influence the media actually has on ...

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...

Liberalism and Canada's Conservative Party

the current reader like a brief sketch the Conservative strategy for winning the 2008 election, keeping Prime Minister Stephen H...

Hawthorne/Scarlet Letter/Critical Perspectives

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

Ageism and the 2008 Presidential Elections

differing by only around a decade or so. Grover Cleveland was President in 1908 and he was 47 years old (Scholastic.com). William ...

The 2008 Presidential Election

included for quite some time, two front runners who were each minorities in their own right. If Hillary Clinton won, she too would...

Presidential Nominees Barack Obama and John McCain: Similarities and Differences on the Important Issues of Election 2008

W. Bush). In a May 2008 interview with David Brooks of The New York Times, Obama explained, "Its an argument between ideology and...

The Role of Religion in the 2008 Presidential Campaign

the are hungry for a pragmatic, much less ideological, approach to the problems the country confronts" (Daniel and Holladay). Th...

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...

Uses of Technologies in the 2008 Presidential Campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain

encourage the sharing of videos on YouTube and Brightcove (Yadav). Early in his campaign, Barack Obama acknowledged the importanc...

VOTING THEORY AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS - IS TACTICAL VOTING OK?

two authors is that concerns about "voter sincerity" when it comes to manipulation should be concerns - because one can tell the d...

John Edwards: An Overview of a Presidential Candidate

("John Edwards for President," 2008). In his Native Son advertisement, he talks about his upbringing, and how he will not forget a...

American Politics: The Detrimental Effect of the Primary Election Rules

30 days with the party of their choice before pulling the lever. One can see that if Limbaughs strategy was carried out to success...

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...

Issues and Compromises During the American Civil War

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

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...

Election Process Impact of Computers

willing to give. "The chief problem with paper is that it takes too long to count thousands or millions of ballots. We are just ...

2004 Presidential Election

preferred candidate for African-Americans at eighty-eight percent. In fact, other than the White vote, Kerry won out over Bush in...