2008 Republican National Convention

The 1860 presidential election led to the dominance of the Republican and Democratic parties, with no major changes in the electoral and political system ever since. As a result, tracking previous elections can possibly give rise to prospective clues, cycles or dynamic regularities (Norpoth 1995). In this essay, the author uses the framework of the Primary Model to understand a few of these prospective clues and dynamic regularities. The author initially describes the steps in a presidential…

nominees will then go on to represent their party in the national convention (“Caucasus” p. 1). However, before anything else, to even be considered as a potential…

the annual meeting of global leaders to discuss climate issues. Clinton helped his wife Hillary Rodham in the 2008 election but when she failed to be democratic frontrunner Clinton helped Barack Obama’s campaign. In the year 2004 Clinton published an autobiography that was a bestseller. Clinton delivered a speech for Obama at the 2012 Democratic Convention as well as at the 2008 Convention. Clinton created the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund which helped people affected by the Haiti Earthquake.…

registered voters affiliated with a given party have the chance to go to the polls to cast their vote for their chosen candidate within that party.” Some states use caucuses where “delegates are chosen to represent the state 's interests at the national party…

discussed events in American history. Both parties began preparation for the presidential election, about two years before the actual election. Before the final primary election there were four leading candidates, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for the Republican Party and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party. These four candidates were very different than any of the candidates of previous elections. Bernie Sanders, who was running for the democratic nominee had very different…

analyze Hillary Clinton acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this July. Her speech was anti climatic: she used prior speakers such as First Lady Michele Obama, President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton and Cory Booker to build her report. I’ll begin with the first part of her speech, recognizing Bill Clinton and the love and support he had given her, which are front and center at the convention and had major publicity during this election…

electoral college is popular democracy organized on federal principles. This process views each of the states as a separate entity. Within each state, a popular vote appoints a states ' specific number of electoral votes to the electoral vote. Aggregate national popular vote leads to the final outcome of the electoral college. Majority of states ' electoral votes decides the winner of the election. In an attempt to balance the voting power of states with varying populations, the electoral…

“Make America Great Again.” It is 2016, and Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for the US Presidency. He has the media in a frenzy with his preposterous statements. More jokes are made about Trump than all of the other presidential candidates combined. His plan for immigration and defense consist of building a wall on the Mexican border and banning all Muslims from the US. If Hillary Clinton had made these outrageous claims, she would not have made it more than a month into her campaign.…

Revolution was started by many different factors. One of the beginning factors was the changes in the society in America. The colonists in America were beginning to do things very differently than in Britain. “Society in the New World was already more Republican, more shallow, and more fragile. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstitution of American society and to destroy the bonds holding together the older monarchical society” (Rozbicki, 2011, p. 79). The colonists wanted…

University of California, Los Angeles. This is his first book. David O. Sears is distinguished professor of psychology and political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has served on the board of overseers for both the American National Election Studies and the General Social Survey. He is the coauthor or coeditor of numerous books, most recently Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America, Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, and The diversity Challenge:…