The 2008 American Presidential Elections Nearly all American presidential elections can be seen as an historical event‚ but the elections on November 4 2008 were seen as even more important than ever before. In America there are two major political parties‚ the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain with 365 electoral votes to McCain’s 173. The 2008 elections were the first time an African American was elected president and the voter
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Florida‚ the “Sunshine State”‚ has always had a big role for voting in the elections. According to the WEEK there a few reasons for that: Florida is a closed primary‚ they are more comparable to running a general election than most states‚ and they take a lot of delegates (WEEK staff 2012). The WEEK is a weekly British news magazine which also publishes a US edition. My goal in this paper is to explain why Florida holds so much importance. As we know‚ elections are not won by popular
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been forgotten when it comes to the election process. Some people even sum up the election process as a way of oligarchy government would do it. This isn’t the way our government worked before and it shouldn’t work like that ever. We have been bought up from our forefathers as a country where everyone’s voices should be heard but apparently it isn’t how we imagined it to be today. We all remember In the year 2000‚ where George .W.Bush won the presidential election despite the majority of the americans
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front runner Barack Obama won the presidential election. During this time‚ America had swayed into a recession which the economy suffered massive cutbacks and drowning in debt. America was also at war currently with Iraq which stirred up many other problematic issues to come about during this year. The media was and still is the main door way to the public to address these issues. The agenda setting function during this year I believe was used during to 2008 presidential campaign to help Barack Obama’s
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2012 Presidential campaign. Evaluate to what extent each party’s policies were consistent with democratic values.” The 57th quadrennial United States Presidential Election was held on the 6th of November 2012‚ with a fight out between the incumbent‚ President Barack Obama for the Democratic Party‚ and Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate. The election saw two candidates with largely different approaches to key foreign and domestic issues. The centre point of the Presidential Election was
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Three Problems in the 2000 Presidential Election One of the problems that occurred during the 2000 presidential election was how the news stations called the state of Florida for Al Gore‚ while there are two time zones in the state. On the western side‚ the people still had one whole hour to cast their ballots. Also‚ there was still 12 minutes left on the Eastern side. This caused much confusion‚ and people did not know who to believe. A survey estimated that 15‚000 people did not vote‚ because
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today’s political corruption has been decreased in public office‚ the U.S Constitution created a system called "checks and balances to limit executive corruption." Before the introduction of the current system designated by The U.S Constitution‚ during election time in the 19th century the "appearance of corruption and misconduct" was frequent‚ but few cases were taken into account. For example‚ the first act of corruption that has formed a scandal was the bribery
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The Presidential Debates Between Bill Clinton and Dole Philip Rubacha October 22‚ 1996 The presidential debates between democratic President William Clinton and Republican Senator Robert Dole proved to be a game of "dodge-ball". Bob Dole fired criticism and attacks while Clinton tried to "dodge" them. Dole attacked him on most of his ideas‚ and his tendency to exaggerate. Clinton avoided the lies he made since the 1992 presidential campaign (brought up by Dole‚ of course) by revealing
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Similarities and differences in the use of media in the 1960: Nixon/Kennedy and the 2012: Obama/Romney presidential campaigns I. Similarities Both presidential campaigns used televisions as their tools to deliver messages to a large audience. In fact‚ televisions were a primary way in which American citizens could learn about presidential candidates. Televisions were used to show debates between candidates‚ so that citizens could be able to know who should lead them. II. Differences There were
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candidates running for the presidency but only one candidate from each party is chosen to run for president. Representative Democracy is when the get to people elect representatives to run the government which is also known as Democratic Republic. The United States is a Representative Democracy. The citizens elect representatives such as the president‚ members of congress‚ and senators to run the government. The government is divided into three separate branches of government. This ensures that none of the
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