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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...

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 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...

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...

Fairness and Elections in Jamaica

the prime minister may request that the governor general call for elections sooner ("Background," 2011). There are two major polit...

U.S. Third Political Parties

In eight pages this paper discusses why third party independent candidates have not performed well in national elections in the Un...

US Politics and the Decrease in Participation by Voters

in the presidential election. The 1924 turnout was the result of the sudden enfranchisement of tens of millions of women who hadn...

Civil Rights in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Abandonment of the Freed Men

The Compromise of 1877 is the focus of this six page research paper that involved a close election in which Republican Rutherford ...

Modern Day South Africa

advanced productive economies in Africa. South Africa has a number of perks that make it a recognized leader among developing nat...

German Voters and Adolf Hitler

In seven pages this paper examines the German elections of 1928 and 1932 in order to determine reasons why voters would have cast ...

Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Election News Coverage

In five pages this research paper discusses the differences between the North and South in terms of how it would have covered the ...

Harry Truman's Surprising Victory in the 1948 US Presidential Campaign

In five pages this research paper examines how President Harry Truman pulled off an astonishing upset of Governor Thomas Dewey in ...

Rhetoric, Reagan, and the Outcome of the 1984 Presidential Election

The outcome of the 1984 presidential election is the topic of this twelve page paper. The term rhetoric is discussed in a positiv...

Factors Leading To The Clinton Upset in 1992

in light of these factors, Clinton had to distinguish himself against the challenges of Bushs stability and Perots effective and c...

German and French Political Parties

In ten pages this paper discusses France and Germany in terms of each country's respective political party and election system. S...

Russian Elections and Sociocultural Influences

In seven pages Russia's 1995 parliamentary elections are examined in terms of how they were influenced by various cultural and soc...

1992 Elections in Israel

of past superpower confrontation had been a continuation of US--USSR antagonism by proxy: each superpower aiming at increasing its...

California's 2003 Gubernatorial Recall Election

hit with a severe energy crisis, driving costs up while the residents of the state suffered rolling black-outs (6). Davis was cri...

2003 Recall Election in California

set off a recall campaign.ix Both the state Constitution and the California election law spell out the administrative requirements...

Polls, the Media, and Ronald Reagan

In twelve pages this research paper examines how election polls and the media were influenced by President Ronald Reagan which obs...

Overview of School Boards

In five pages this examination of school boards includes their significance, functions, politics, elections, authority, and decisi...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...