Several others, including Shirley Chisholm (who was the first African-American to make a bid for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1972), Al Sharpton (an American Baptist minister and a civil rights activist), Alan Keyes, and most notably Jesse Jackson have run for the U.S. Presidency before (Jakes)
Pre-election polls showed him to be in a clear lead of about 10 points, but he still lost a close race in a shocking result. Similar phenomena occurred in several elections involving black candidates in the 1980s and 1990s (Koppleman)
" (Ibid.) When the controversy refused to die down, Obama and his wife, Michelle, resigned their membership in Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, where Reverend Wright had served as a senior pastor (Powell)
However, such 'racial' remarks often backfired and hurt his rivals more than it hurt him. For example, when, during the primaries, Hillary Clinton said she more than Obama appealed to "hard-working Americans, white Americans," she was pilloried for exploiting the racial divide (Whitaker)
.How can you address that issue or overcome that issue?" (Zeleny) the measured and calm response by Senator Obama reassured many white voters who were searching for an 'electable' Democratic candidate
On the other hand, such a characterization is extremely wide-ranging. For instance, numerous electoral systems have used majoritarian methods in several districts of the country; at the same time as employing PR in other districts (Schiemann, 1999; Farell, 1997)
" The second is proportional electoral system, which utilize multi-seat regions, generally with a listing of candidates of each party, and usually generate parliamentary representation that mainly reflects the vote distribution of several parties. Taagepera and Shugart (1989) assert that the impact on the party system can be displayed on a scale ranging from completely proportional to highly proportional (Taagepera and Shugart, 1989)
There are many similarities between the themes and regarding what the authors see as the lessons learned from the Progressive Era and the 1912 election. (Kolansky & Leuchtenburg; 2011, 1952)
He mentions vision for change, vision for the new, and vision for the future, in addition to urging the country to learn or continue to take the good with the bad. (Wilson, 1913) Another trait that characterizes the era of this election as Progressive is the attitude of average citizens and of politicians to cleanse government
S. Steel and General Motors to recognize the existence of organized labor (Fine 323)
Johnson admitted that he was driven over the edge by the protests against the war, by students singing that 'horrible song' of "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?," and they by his nemesis Robert Kennedy entering the primaries to unseat him in 1968. Even some of his closest advisors like Richard Goodwin thought him paranoid in the clinical sense, and his press secretary Bill Moyers secretly obtained such a diagnosis from a psychiatrist (Heinrichs 30)
Keynes argued that capitalism did not produce full employment in the absence of fiscal and monetary stimulus from the central government, which would increase aggregate demand (Mankiw 770). In the General Theory (1936) he declared that "inefficiency of aggregate demand was identified as the main economic problem" (Skidelsky 152)
Wallace's references to God and the Bible were always made in this context of liberal attacks on white Southerners, just as he insisted that any federal efforts to support civil and voting rights for blacks were really examples of reverse racism against whites. For this reason, he had "placed this sign, "In God We Trust," upon our State Capitol on this Inauguration Day as physical evidence of determination to renew the faith of our fathers and to practice the free heritage they bequeathed to us" (Wallace 1963)
Major Issue among Independent Voters: During the 2008 presidential elections campaigns, there was a major focus on independent voters who were once viewed as a political afterthought. This emphasis was because of various factors including the growth of these voters to become the largest and rapidly-increasing segment of the American electorate (Avlon par, 1)
While there were concerns on the ability of a particular story covered by news media to affect the public's attitudes and opinions, mass media has a huge influence on people's thinking and perception. This is because mass media influence the amount of thinking that people engage in regarding a particular story, which can lead to an increase on the relative importance of that specific issue (DeFleur & Ball-Rokeach, p
In 2007, independent voters named the economy as the major issue that had an impact on them whereas Democrats named health care and Republicans pointed to terrorism. However, other issues like war on Iraq, health care, global warming and various social issues like gay marriages and abortion made them to prefer the Democratic Party (Edsall par, 4)
Regardless of these two main themes, the war in Iraq became the overriding issue with health care being the second key issue. Actually, the significance of the war in Iraq and its impact on voters was an influential factor in the Democratic Party nominations with Hillary Clinton's rivals expressing their concerns regarding her earlier support of the war (Malone par, 7)
Kennedy's presidential campaigns. The other evidence of this function was the exceptional hybrid-campaign involving the convergence between old and new media during the election campaign (Vangshardt & Bjerre-Poulsen, p
Conventional news coverage continues to filter opportunities for the candidates to talk directly with the public. In well-known, parallel studies, Adato and Hallin showed that the average candidate "soundbite," the period in which a presidential candidate could speak uninterrupted on the evening news, shrank from about 42 seconds in 1968 to about 9 seconds in 1988 (Fishkin)
At least a third of all spot commercials in recent campaigns have been negative, and in a minority of campaigns half or more of the spots are negative in tone or substance. A study conducted in 1999 found that negative ads build in their effectiveness over time with the so-called sleeper effect phenomenon (Lariscy, 1999, np)