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US Presidential Elections of 1920, 1940, and 1950 and the Role Global Issues Played

pledged to render the election a "solemn referendum" in respect to the Treaty and League of Nations in the hopes that the popular ...

Politics and the Influence of Radio During the Years 1920 to 1940

the airwaves these days. But for the times (and in examining the history), the radio rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s was quite str...

2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the Electoral College

are serious questions in a very serious political situation - we are talking about the President of the United States, still refer...

Presidential Campaigns of 1932, 1952, and 1980 and Issues

Carter days. Most voters are cognizant of the economy. Two themes ran through the elections of 1932, 1952 and 1980: the economy an...

U.S. Presidential Elections of 1992 and 2000

In sixteen pages this paper contrasts and compares these two preelection conventions as well as the elections themselves. Twelve ...

Overview of the 1980 U.S. Presidential Election

to think much of President Reagan. In fact, he says that Reagan gave the people "a sense of direction and moral purpose, but not o...

Presidential Campaigns and Economic Issues

around monetary issues, there are often other issues such as those that concern social and moral well being. Today, hot campaign t...

Electoral College's Influence

the House of Representatives would make the final decision (1998). No matter what happens, when electors go to vote, they are allo...

Republican Party and George W. Bush

(which was considered the brash "newcomer" of the political parties during the mid 19th century), was a party that actually came o...

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...

Strom Thurmond

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

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...

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...

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...

Mass Democracy and Andrew Jackson

with Jackson, and this led to what became known as the "corrupt bargain" of 1824. Clay drummed up support in the House for Adams, ...

An Overview of The 2000 Election

2000 president election entails a variety of issues that are crucial to understanding American presidential politics.1 This is due...

Andrew Jackson and the Emergence of the Common Man

This paper considers the election of 1828, nullification, the Indian removal and the bank crisis. There is one source listed in t...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

2 Constitutional Issues Involving the George W. Bush Administration

readily surmise that the campaign approaches might also differ from those of past elections. "The framers of the Constitution con...

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...

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,...

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 ...

Voting Behavior and Religion

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

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...

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...