Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (New York Simon and Schruster, 2005) P.p. 916 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a different take on something that already has several books, articles, etc. ; the political life of Abraham Lincoln. She draws comparisons from Civil War politics and relates them to today’s politics. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s lengthy depiction of the rest of Lincoln’s rivals tells the rollercoaster ride of emotions they all felt during the presidential nominations.
Assess the factors that determined the outcome of the 2008 Presidential election. (45) The 2008 Presidential election will go down in history which was watched by the whole world. For the Democratic Party, the choice was a black candidate called Barack Obama who had a magnificent aura and style about him, and for the Republican party, a no nonsense war hero in the form of John McCain. The outcome resulted in Barack Obama being inaugurated as the 44th President and the first Black American to become President with 52.9% of the vote whom many citizens hailed as the man who would help get them out of the recession. There were many factors throughout the election which had an impact which I will explain below.
More specifically, they were most notable for ideas and standards as: The Jacksonian Democracy, The Slavery Dilemma, The New Deal, The Great Society, and that of Trickle-down Economics. All ideologies are areas in which most people compare these great presidents to that of President Barack Obama. Barack Obama has achieved many milestones in his lifetime and has gone where no president has gone before. Born a U.S. citizen, Barack Obama is elected President of the Unites States in 2008. As leader of this great country, Barack is expected to fulfill the expectations of the citizens of the United States.
For example the three mid-terms where this happened were 1934, when Roosevelt won 9 more seats, 1998, when Clinton won 5 more seats and 2002, when George W. Bush won 8 more seats. This helps to show that the President’s performance is judged massively and it’s almost certain that if the electorate feel that the President’s performance has been unsatisfactory then the President’s party will do poorly in the midterms. This really emphasis’s the fact that midterms act as almost a voice for the electorate, which can let the President know exactly what they think about what type of job he or she is doing so far, by simply voting for the other party in the election. Therefore commentators have argued that midterms are a referendum on the performance of the president because the President almost always seems to lose seats in the House of Representatives, which can act as almost a ‘wake up call’ for the President, letting him or her know that they need to improve the job their doing in office so far. However other commentators have argued that mid-term elections are not merely a referendum on the performance of the President because the turnout is almost always low.
November 4, 2008 is a date that most will never forget.. Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. This Tuesday night, in Grant Park, in Chicago, Illinois, President Elect Obama gave his general election victory speech, where from beginning to end his tone remains thankful, appreciative, and humbled. Obama assures the American people that change will soon come, but it will have to be done through a collective effort of himself and the people. The president’s pathetic appeal begins the moment the speech starts. There is electricity in the crowd and the excited tension is thick in the air.
The article was written just before the 2008 elections when Nader was running in his 4th consecutive election for president and was frustrated with the way that third party candidates are treated in the media. Nader is a respected politician and scholar graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School while also participating in 4 presidential elections cumulating a respectable amount of votes for a third party candidate. Nader’s article gives a compelling argument for third party participation in presidential debates by his use of ethos and logos in his fusion of charged emotional word choice and appeals to people’s common sense. Nader, in his article, claims that the monopoly of debates run by the Republican and Democratic parties are unfair to the third parties and lie by proclaiming that they provide “the best possible information to viewers and listeners”. He verifies his claim by pointing out that the organizer of the debate is the Commission on Presidential Debates was created by the two gargantuan parties and is controlled by the two so other parties
[pic] Linguistic Concepts - Linguistic Awareness (EN 3007) Peter Sundkvist Propaganda in John McCain’s political speech An analysis of the political language used in John McCain’s speech, Dated 27 October, 2008 Autumn, 2008 Md Arifuzzaman 830908T233 h08mdari@du.se Table of Contents Abstract........................................................................................................................... 1 1. Introduction............................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Aim........................................................................................................................................... 2 2. Theoretical Background.......................................................................................... 3 3. Method……………………………………………………………………………….. 3 4. Data analysis ...……………………………………………………………………… 4 4.1 The purpose of the propaganda campaign……………………………………………….. 4 4.2 The context of propaganda…………………………………………………………………… 6 4.3 The target audience…………………………………………………………………… 6 4.4 Techniques to maximize effect………………………………………………………… 7 4.4.1 Language use……………………………………………………………………………7 5.
The Influence of the Jacksonian Movement Andrew Jackson was not only a president but a movement for the American people. Jackson was the most popular president since George Washington was president. Even though Andrew Jackson rivals Washington in popularity they were popular for different reasons. Jackson became popular because he was a peoples president and changed the way politics were run. Jackson was a president of the people chosen by the people.
She achieves this by mentioning her story and Barack’s, how their families were low-income blue-collared workers. Joe Biden, Senator of Delaware, made a speech accepting the vice-presidency if Barack Obama is elected President, at the convention as well. The focus of the political discourse in this speech is strongly bound to support Obama’s campaign by emphasizing their middle class working roots and he especially criticizes Bush’s administration and attacks the way John McCain is directing his politics towards the presidency of this country. Joe Biden uses different phrases that are repeated throughout the speech, such as “that’s not change; that’s more of the same” or “That’s the change we need” to underline
Several Daily Mail-articles also show a strong sceptiscism or even opposition to the European Union[3]. The article appeared on the day of the 2nd TV-debate between the party-leaders. After the 1st debate Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats had recieved a huge boast in popularity after the polls showed that he was considered the winner of the debate [4]. In the days after the debate the Liberal Democrates overtook the Labour Party in some opinion polls[5]. The article deals mainly with an article Nick Clegg wrote in 2002, in which he discusses anti-German prejudices in the UK[6].