During primary elections, party competition heightens over voter participation as it determines the direction of political change in Texas. Up until 1960, the Democratic Party controlled nearly all Texas elections. This is because, “when one political party tends to dominate [the selection of a public official], voters who wish to participate in choosing their local public officials must vote in that party’s primary” (197). But over the half past-century, many counties have shifted from the Democratic to the Republican primary.…
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)…
In the 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney won 48% of the popular vote but only 38% of the electoral vote.” This is because although Americans vote directly for their chosen candidate in the presidential election every 4 years, the president is elected by the institution called the Electoral College. Now for the electoral college, “There are 538 total electors in the Electoral College, who…
Although Hayes’s popular vote was larger, he did not ultimately win the popular vote during his…
Ronald Reagan received 50.7% of the popular vote, and won the presidential election by collecting 91% of the electoral votes. This big margin of difference shows how the electoral college does not accurately show what the people want. States like Idaho that have a population of over 1.5 million people will only get 4 electoral votes, making their opinion in the presidential election extremely small. George C. Edwards states in Document D that “the electoral college violates political equality. It is not a neutral counting device..…
A state is either for the republican candidate or the democratic candidate. The votes could be forty eight percent for the republican candidate and fifty two percent for the democratic candidate and the democrat would take the state and all the electors for that state. And a lot of states, such as California and Texas are always voting the same way. But if you look at popular vote, is a much more mixed view of things. More than four and a half million Californians voted for McCain (roughly as many votes as he got in Texas), while about forty percent of voters in Alabama backed…
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.…
Throughout the whole recount, Bush maintained his lead. In the end, Bush won the election by a mere 537 votes—a far more narrow gap compared to the previous 1,784 [1]. Nevertheless, a total of 175,000 undervotes was never counted…
1992 election was the battle among the three candidates, George H.W Bush from Republican, Bill Clinton from Democrat, and the independent candidate Ross Perot. George H.W Bush was oil business man who joined politics later in his life. However, in 1967, he soon get elected twice to the House of Representative. The World War II veteran became rising power in the Republican Party. John Hohenberg says, “he became successively the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the Republican National Committee, chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Communist China, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Ronald Reagan’s two-term vice president.”…
Political Parties in Texas run the same as they do within the United States, we are a Republican Party and a Democratic Party. The Republican Party is a party for supporters for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, strong national defense, deregulation, restrictions on labor unions, and is ideology is American conservatism. The Republican Party is also known as the GOP, Grand Old Party. The Republican Party was founded by the anti-slavery activists, modernists, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers back in 1854. As for the Democratic Party, seeks to provide government interventions and regulations in the economy.…
During that time , 87 percent of their campaign were in 12 battleground states, and none of those four candidates ever went to 27 states , which included almost almost all of rural America ( Speel). Robert Speel informs that during the election , it is a rare occasion that these people running for your country will actually want your vote. That does not sound sensible , that our future president does not care about everyone’s vote. As a country we should not ignore people and make everybody's vote seen and heard. Another issue with the electoral college is that the votes per state (VpS) is not equal , technically meaning that some votes more than others.…
This was due to the Florida Supreme Court 's decision to make a new election law, which only the state legislature may do under Article 3 section 6 of Florida’s Constitution. However, this leads back to the Legislative Branch and under Article 1 section one of the constitution. “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” Nevertheless, the Supreme Court used this Article to its advantage in deeming the recount unconstitutional and giving George W. Bush the…
Texas has always been one of the primary “red states” when it comes to elections. States that are in the South tend to always be republican states. Just like how there was a major shift in political parties in the past, I honestly believe that there will be another major shift in the future but not any time soon. I will go into more detail in this essay, as to what I mean by that I believe there will be a major shift in the political parties in the later future. Democratic Influence on the People…
African Americans in Texas voted at precisely the same as African Americans across the nation. The distinction was with Hispanic voters. In 2008, national Hispanic voter turnout was 50 percent. In Texas, it was just 38 percent. Another essential variable liable to keep Texas from turning into a swing state in the close term is the way that the national Democratic Party has neglected to submit the assets important to make Texas focused.…