a. Van Buren won the close popular vote of 765,483 to 739,795; an electoral college vote of 170 to 73…
In the election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden fought a very closely contested campaign. The results of the election were disputed in a number of states. Florida was one of these states South Carolina, Louisiana, Oregon. In these states, the Republicans said the Democrats were refusing to count black votes while the Democrats said the Republicans were refusing to count votes for Tilden. Both parties claimed that they had won Florida and three other states.…
The election of 1876 is what really made everything worse, weakening the power of the President more than it ever has because by the end of the election, a president hadn’t been decided. This problem had to be resolved with the Compromise of 1876. Thankfully, William McKinley and Rutherford B. Hayes worked to strengthen the president’s power. Congress became the most powerful source of power, but they weren’t able to get anything done because its population was so evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. Since no party is dominant over the house, senate, and the White House, parties are inefficient because they can’t agree on…
B) The public wasn’t very engaged in any of these elections. They had a little part in who won those elections, for various reasons. Technology just wasn’t advanced, policies and natural resources were out of their hand, and recounting the ballots didn’t happen because time didn’t permit. In all these cases, it didn’t come down to what the public wanted, because it couldn’t.…
Clinton's campaign had advantageously used the then-prevailing recession situation in the United States as one of the campaign's means to successfully unseat George H. W. Bush. In March 1991, days after the ground invasion of Iraq, 90% of polled Americans approved of President…
Huck and Jim, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn portray the theme of freedom throughout the story. Huck and Jim end up meeting each other afterwards both have ran from home, to be free. Huck has run away from home after faking his death to his drunken father. Huck didn’t want to stay longer with his father as it would go downhill for him, as he will get beat or even killed. Jim had become a runaway slave as he ran for his freedom. Jim ran due to him knowing he would have been sold and wouldn’t have seen his family, but instead runs to gain money and buy back his family.…
The 1928 Presidential elections was a contest between Republican nominee Herbert Hoover and Democratic nominee Al Smith. It marked the first time that a Roman Catholic, Al Smith, became a major party's nomination for US President. Despite a rather landslide victory by Herbert Hoover, 60% of the popular vote and over 80% of the electoral returns, this was a heated election pitting wets verses drys, immigrants versus natives, city vs. country, blacks verses whites, and most notably Catholics verses Protestants.…
Recount is a movie about 2000 presidential election between George Bush and Gore. During the election results, the state Florida declared Bush the winner, but the votes difference with Gore were very close. When the supporters of gore notice that the difference is very close, they went to Florida state court to ask for recount. The Florida Supreme Court ruled that the votes in some counties should be recounted. As the result of the ruling, Bush supporters were not happy with that and they suggested that they will chose some counties were they should count for them too. As a result, Bush supporters took the case to Supreme Court where they demanded that the recounting should stop and that the person who was declared the winner at the first time won the election. This made Senator George w Bush to win the election. There were many issues that the Bush Supporters and Gore supporters did not agree on. In this essay, I will discuss some of the issues both side did not agree with. I will focus on the majority opinion and the dissenting.…
The election was noteworthy for two reasons. A president was saddled with a vice president that he did not want. It also was America’s first transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans without violence. Jefferson referred to his victory and the change-over as the “bloodless revolution.”…
First election since 1876 that had been disputed. Democrats had requested a manual recount from the Florida counties in question, however Republicans sued to prohibit these hand tallies. Republicans then requested set deadlines that potentially could turn away votes that may have come in for Gore, so Democrats sued to prohibit these. The case ended up at the US Supreme court, which stopped the recount and at that point, Bush had won.…
“When Florida's Republican 2012 presidential primary was moved up to Jan. 31, the reaction was mixed.”…
5A. In Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy, Kathleen Hall Jamieson surveys American presidential elections from 1960 to 1988. One conclusion she draws is the 1960 and 1980 elections stand out from the others in that they showed an increased level of “engagement” on the part of the public and the press. She writes:…
To better understand the election of 1896 it is important to understand the events leading up to the presidential election. The year is 1893 and Grover Cleveland is president of the United States, in this year great change was coming to the United States mainly an economic depression causing most people especially farmers and ranchers to demand change in Washington. During this time period the federal government was weak making them powerless to combat the economic woes that were facing the country (Goldfield, et al., 2011).…
The election of 1824 was a vivid example of a primary change in our nation’s presidential…
January 20 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in to office, about nine months later he would be facing one of the country's most horrific terriost attacks. For those who are unfamiliar with September 11 2001, this day was when the United States faced multiple terriost attacks. In New York City, the World Trade Center's Twin Towers were attacked,…