However, there is also reason to suggest that this is not the case, and that pluralism determined the outcome of the 2008 election. A significant percentage of America’s population voted in the 2004 election, with even more predicted to vote in the 2008 election which was the case. People were and still are politically aware and therefore made up their own mind. This may have been due to e.g. voting for change and rationally by voting Democratic instead of Republican, or because they believed in Obama.
How did Obama beat Clinton to the democratic nomination? When the little known US Senator for Illinois announced his intentions to run in the democratic presidential primary in 2007, few believed that he could defeat the party backed establishment candidate, Hilary Clinton. Clinton’s campaign was described as “the largest and most powerful presidential campaign in History” and although Obama himself was quietly confident, his early investors were sceptical as Clinton gained an early twenty point lead. So how was he able to turn things around? Obama had three key factors on his side.
In the end Mitt Romney was the winner by far. Romney pulled through in the end making undecided voters make a choice. I hope that the next debate Romney is able to perform as well as he did in this debate, because I believe our country needs to see a change and that if Romney is trying as much as he says he is I believe that something good could work. As for Obama, he needs to sit down and practice for the next two debates, for it would be a shame for the President of the United States to look foolish a second time on National
However, there are inevitably some questions arising about the electoral college and whether it still works best for the US today. Some say it should be completely scrapped, with a more democratic direct election taking it's place; others day that it can be mended by reforming it, and the final argument is to defend it, and leave it as it is. One reason to end the electoral college system is because it is not democratic enough. The winner of the nationwide vote could in fact lose the election because of the way the electoral college works. Popular vote winners have been denied the presidency in 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000.
HINDENBURG The majority of Germans still feared Hitler. Hindenburg won the 1932 election with a clear majority. The NAZI's after Hitler's April 1932 election loss to Hindenburg were still the largest German political party, but did not have a majority in the Reichstag Paul von Hindenburg was 85 years old at the time -- old, tired, and some might say senile. He was likely not fully rational or in control of his faculties, and heavily dependent on advisers, who increasingly favoured the Nazis as the only alternative to the "chaos and anarchy" of the socialists and communists. The middle class had given Hitler a considerable amount of both
When I was watching Romney’s debates, he was talking about “Obamacare” is not good idea and his one could be better, but I agreed to what Obama had to say and he had some strong moments, particularly when he criticized Romney's plan to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program and noted that "Romneycare" looks an awful lot like "Obamacare." I agree with the President Obama that he's not only thinking about now he is thinking about future. Us students who need good teachers and good technology - without these things we cannot succeed. People should remember what reality is and think practically. They just cannot come and tell that they will cut taxes and provide cheap healthcare programme for
Equal political voice and the opportunity to participate in democracy are certainly valued ideals, as generations of Americans, from the colonists of late eighteenth century to women of the early twentieth century, have fought for their place in this country. Every vote is crucial to the development and maintenance of America, representing the voice of the citizens for politicians to act upon. Unfortunately, the American people are heard unequally and unjustly. The gap between who is and is not able to partake in United States politics is steadily increasing. The privileged and well organized wealthy upper class of this country dominate the polls, the majority of the U.S. is not represented in election, further slowing the progress of political reform.
The 2012 Presidential candidates’ use of social media The 2012 election will be one of the most important elections in the history of this country. In order to reach out to the people of the United States of America, the Republican candidate and the current President have used social media to new levels of high. The political parties of this country have started to increasingly use digital techniques in order to raise the election campaign money in order to influence the winner. The previous election was in 2008 in which the current President Barrack Obama beat Republican candidate John McCain. This contest had gone down in history as the first election to be heavily influenced by the new social media.
The “audacity of hope”? It would be genuinely audacious to run for the White House on a platform of despair. Promising hope is simply good sense. “The fierce urgency of now”? It is hard to see what Mr Obama means when he says this – other than that some inner voice has told him to run for president.” Well, politicians hardly ever say what they mean and hardly ever mean what they say.
In America today, most people are focusing on only the big things: “whose tax plans are better, who will lead this country in a better direction, who can turn our economy around;” all questions asked about the presidential candidates. Many people aren’t even paying attention to their own states race; I for one have no idea who is running in Missouri. In reality however the gubernatorial races (race for governor) is just as important as the presidential debates and probably more so. For instance, if Obama becomes the next president and his plan for taxing doesn’t occur, then we rely on our states taxing policy which hopefully (even though I’m a republican) is as good as or better the Obama’s. Other issues also keep our state at a high level of importance: education, transportation, healthcare, alternative energy sources, crime, gang organizations, and