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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...

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...

THE POLITICS OF JOBLESSNESS: HOW A HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE CAN DERAIL A PRESIDENT

At the time of the election, the U.S. was in a recession with unemployment starting to tick upward. Clinton was able to focus on B...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Strom Thurmond

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

Giuliani Campaign/Immigration

of the McCain-Kennedy bill that is currently being debated. Current status of political controversy concerning immigration Mr. G...