President's Permanent Campaign Summary

the permanent campaign has been used for decades as a part of the American politics. Permanent campaign is when elected officials after getting elected use methods like the ones they used before getting elected such as hosting rallies, media campaign, and raising money. Therefore, the indicators and the characteristics of the president’s Permanent campaign are, traveling around, discussing initiatives and issues he plans to fix, holding rallies, and registering for reelection very early. The increased attentiveness to the public during the permanent campaign is not good for the American democracy.
A review of the book “The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign” written by Doherty, Brendan J. says, “every president studied by Doherty held at least 80 fund-raisers per four-year term. And the pace of presidential fund- raising has been steadily increasing” (William. 139). Holding fundraisers is a major part of the president’s permanent campaign which takes most of the president’s time. William agrees with what Doherty says in his book about the president’s being too busy fundraising instead of giving most of the time to other issues. “Doherty believes that non-stop campaigning makes it more difficult for presidents to negotiate with opposition-party members of Congress” (140). Politicians who focus only on reelection do not have the time …show more content…
William says in his review about the book that “Doherty doesn’t explicitly draw the conclusion, his data may constitute the definitive rejoinder to those would-be reformers who would like to amend the Constitution so that presidents are elected to a single, six-year term, with no possibility of re-election” (139). Doherty means that if there is no re-election the presidents will put all their effort on governing and do what they promised the citizens before they were elected. ( add more