James Campbell in "Why Bush Won" emphasizes the need to look at the context in which the election took place and the need to look at campaign developments. The writer also lays out three campaign fundamentals that can help explain why President Bush narrowly won the 2004 election: public opinion of the candidate, election-year economy growth (or lack thereof), and the advantage of party and personal incumbency. According to Campbell, all three of these fundamentals gave Bush an advantage. Public opinion of the president was slightly in favor of him at the beginning of the campaign cycle and an additional boost was provided by the natural post-convention bump. The economy was also an asset for 43 during the election.…
This happened because Gore used his permitted right to request manual recounts in four counties, and he turned out having more votes after they were recounted. (1)…
Supreme Court overruled the Florida Court, halting the recount and casting doubt on the outcome of the 2000 Presidential Election. A year later, a consortium of U.S. media organizations published the results of an exhaustive study of all of Florida’s unread ballots. The consortium concluded that had all these ballots be counted and the discernable votes been tallied, Al Gore would be the 43rd President of the United States. Unprecedented the 2000 Presidential Election is a cautionary tale, warning us that we must insist our elections be conducted in a manner above reproach that all legitimate voters may exercise their franchise, and all legal votes must be counted. Anything less undermines our faith in…
Lyndon B. Johnson Becoming President Lyndon B. Johnson was born on August 27, 1908 and died January 22, 1973. He was the 36th President, and was President for 6 years (1963-1969). In the 1960 campaign he was elected vice President with JFK. When JFK got killed, Lyndon B. Johnson took his place as President. After being President, he was elected into the Senate.…
According to Gary Bugh, in the 2000 election, Nader received around 90,000 votes in Florida, which resulted in George Bush winning Florida (51). Bugh also stated, that if the citizens who voted for Nader would have voted for their second choice, which would have been Al Gore, that Gore would have won Florida (51). The same thing happened in the state of New Hampshire that year. According to Robert Dudley, who has a Ph.D. in Political Science, and Eric Shiraev, who has a Ph.D. in Political Psychology, Bush had beaten Gore by only around 7,000 votes (141). Later on Dudley and Shiraev said that according to the polls 8,000 of the 22,000 who voted for Nader would have voted Gore before Bush (141).…
Although Hayes’s popular vote was larger, he did not ultimately win the popular vote during his…
In an impressive sweep, Republican Senator of Ohio, Warren G. Harding, has defeated Democratic Governor of Ohio, James. M Cox, with 404 to 127 electoral votes. The other losing tickets included Eugene Debs and running mate Seymour Stedman of the Socialist Party, although they won no electoral votes, they secured 3.41% of the popular vote. Parley Christiansen and Maximilian Hayes of the Farmer-Labor party had received 0.99% of the popular vote. The Prohibition Party, represented by Aaron Watkins and his Vice President choice, David Colvin had won 0.71% of the popular vote.…
The 2000 Presidential race all came down to sunshine state of Florida. The sate of Florida had to do an recount of the votes and shows that George W. Bush would have won the recount with the under-votes. Under-votes are votes that were not counted or used when calculating the presidential race. The studies also show that Gore likely would have won a statewide recount of all undervotes and overvotes, which are ballots that included multiple votes for president and were they weren't counted at all. Studies also show that the recount of all hand votes show that Bush would have won the election.…
The dispute between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election made the American population aware of the legitimacy of elections. Additionally, this event illustrated how deeply divided the nation truly is. The debate focused on the state of Florida where there was conflict regarding Bush’s 2,909,135 votes and Al Gore’s 2,907,351 votes [1]. The difference is a staggering 1,784 or about .03% [1]. Clay Roberts explains that, “Any difference of less than .5 of 1% triggers a mandatory machine recount” [1].…
In the recent election of Clinton and Trump there was a stat taken that is very eye opening. It indicated that 53 percent of campaign from Trump , Pence, Kaine ,and Clinton in two months prior of the November election were…
system in which politicians redraw districts to ensure their rise to power regardless of how marginal the voters support may be. As congressional districts are redrawn, the general population believes in a rigged system and in return, no longer votes for any candidate. The trust has been broken between the constituents and the political figures in power who no longer represent the ideology of the voters’ neighborhood. Using a misguided reality of how the politician rose to office without a popular vote, the newly elected implements their own agenda, passing it on as a mandate of the people (Shkimba, “Trump Was Right, the System is Rigged”).…
With his blunt racist remarks, billionaire and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s number of critics grow every day. An increasing number of billionaires, including Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates and George Soros are vocal in their criticism of Trump. According to Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2016/03/12/billionaires-rally-around-immigration-against-trumps-xenophobia/#70afe9608e09, George Soros, one of the most successful hedge-fund managers in the world, has spent millions to defeat Trump in the polls. Soros, a strong advocate for human rights, government transparency and democracy, says that Donald Trump is threatening America’s values with nativism and xenophobia.…
Welcome to America, where your opinion matters, or so you'd think. Every four years, we hear about The Electoral College, but we never talk about what it is, or at least how unfair it is. When we vote, we're actually just voting for the people that vote for president. Then, those people get together and cast their ballots for president, and can basically vote for whoever they want, regardless of who we vote for. In the year 2004, there was an elector who cast his ballot for someone called "John Ewards" which was close to the name of John Kerrys' running mate (Ferbes, Nov 4, 2012).…
This ‘electoral crisis’ (Spilerman & Dickens, 1974) can give rise to situations such as in the 2000 election where VP Al Gore won the popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes, yet lost the election to George W.…
Established by the Founding Fathers in the Articles, particularly Article II, Section I, of the U.S. Constitution. The Electoral College is a process that is used for electing a President and Vice President of the United States. The Founding Fathers made this compromise for wanting the President elected by Congress and those who wanted direct election by the people. The process of the Electoral College includes the selection of electors, the gathering of electors when and where they vote for President and Vice President and the calculation of the electoral votes, which is done by Congress. In comparison, each state has as many electors in the Electoral College as it has Representatives and Senators in the U.S. Congress, District of Columbia…