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the number of actual individual votes that each candidate receives from American citizens. The Electoral College is a body of representatives from each state who make the decision on which presidential candidate will receive their states votes. Each state receives a different number of votes based on their population and how many representatives that state has in the House. A candidate can beat their opponent…

political attack campaign in that of President George Bush, who ran against Michael Dukakis in 1988. Dr. John Geer, a political science professor from Vanderbilt University, notes that these ads were the first time a candidate incorporated a visual representation of the other candidate in their ads (Source 6).…

this system known as winner takes all which is not proportional. Commonly also referred to as first past the post voting system there can only be one winner. Based on the idea that each citizen will be able to vote once in each election and the candidate with the most votes will win. A single member district voting system is used to vote in a single member for example for legislature to represent one single location. In theory the first past the post system sounds the fairest and would…

spike of social media, presidential candidates have been using it as a platform for their election campaigns in order to encourage online participation. The Internet has become an extremely popular tool in online political participation. With this recent internet popularity, more and more people are spending their time online, especially the young adults, ages 18-29. The key to political participation lies in the knowledge of the presidential candidates, their platform, and the ability to…

The twenty second Hubert Humphrey Presidential campaign ad from 1968 is one of the most simple and memorable ads in American politics. Commonly known as “Laughter”, the ad employs humor to smear the Vice-Presidential candidate Spiro Agnew and Presidential candidate Nixon while also making a serious point. Starting with an image of a blank wall with the words “Political Announcement”, a man is laughing as the camera pans toward a television. As the image on the television screen comes into view,…

council executive board candidates, there was not a history of mandating resident assistants to put up flyers for candidates ever before. When I was a sophomore student running for the president position in Johnson, Lewis, and Thatcher cluster's (abbreviated as JOLT) house council, I literally had to put up my flyers myself with my own hands in each hall and conversed with every passenger for election. This holds the truth to every other candidate as well. For those candidates who did not exert…

not further divide society, and represents the majority of what America wants. The best thing about a two party system is you either like one of the candidates or you like the other. This is better because the election process is shorter and the time can be equally divided between both candidates. If America were to have more candidates the election process would drag on and the presidential debates would be longer and more complicated.…

confirmation leader at Saint John the Baptist Parish, I am expected to help the candidates grow in their faith. I have been a confirmation leader for the past three years, and every year is a new opportunity for me to inspire and help the candidates in the class. I’m not only limited to helping the candidates with their faith but also with their everyday struggles. There have been numerous occasions where candidates have seeked my advice, whether it be about the faith or with family and friend…

Consitution. After the voting polls are closed, the candidate with the majority of electoral votes for the state recieves all of the electoral votes for that state. Ultimatley, the candidate with the majority electoral votes wins the presidency. If there is no majority vote, then the House of Represenatives have…

the percentage amount of language devices used by President Obama is at 2.11 percent while Bernie Sanders is at the higher 2.38 percent. Differences in this type of calculation show that not only are these language devices more effectively used by candidates, but that they are in fact used more…