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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...

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...

The Effect of War

Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

Are Americans Selfish?

many people in the world, but they are working hard to get what they can and they are also very limited in the way they can live. ...

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...

Hispanic Americans

not hard to please" (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). They are also generally Catholics (What is a Mexican American?, 2009). Bu...

What is a Real American?

of the good things the nation stands for and the good things that the nation does in the world. But, a good or real American is al...

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,...

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...

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 ...

New York State's Surviving Spouse's Right of Election

of changes were implemented and these are worth exploring. Before progressing deeper into the intricacies of New York Estate Law,...

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...

Richard Nixon and 1960s' Counterculture

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

Was the 2000 Presidential Election Stolen by George W. Bush?

term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...

Voter Turnout Variations in the Elections of 1998 and 2000

50.4 36.7 The above chart for New York shows the voting age population between 13 and 14 million for which registered voters...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Presidential Campaigns, Debates, Elections, and Coverage by the Media

the transition in regards to technology used by the media in regards to political events can be seen in Borgna Brunners timeline i...

The Skills Needed to Become President and the Skills Needed to Be President

last elections candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore. "We are steadily gaining in our ability to reclaim control of Americas dest...

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...

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...

United Kingdom and Germany Electoral Systems

In six pages the UK and Germany are contrasted in terms of their different general election systems. Three sources are listed in ...

Critical Analysis of the First Past Post Process

member of Parliament, he/she has to gain more votes than anyone else in their district(Past the post 2002). This simple sounding s...

1997 and 2001 UK Labour Party Successes

win, however, this did not happen. Both Labour and the Conservatives were both surprised at the result. Neil Kinnock had been at a...

The Influence of Tobacco Money in U.S. Politics

gave more than $32.6 million in PAC and soft money contributions to politicians of both parties (Tobacco Interests, 2002). The rea...

Comparative Analysis of American and Haitian Governments

that the Bush/Gore election is still considered fraudulent by some. Who could have known that the election would ever be so close ...

US Societal Values and the Progressive Era

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

Electoral Process Advantages in U.S. Presidential Elections

the Constitution of the United States met in Philadelphia in 1787 for the constitutional convention they had already lived under a...