Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

ended up being 23, due to the fact that the conference was postponed from the middle of June to August. The first day’s training mostly focused on the legislative process and campaign branding. That being said, a campaign requires an opponent: and it was my duty as a Republican Senator to propose legislation in a “defense committee” to…

Senator Bernie Sanders is America's longest-serving independent politician in Congress and a candidate for president in 2016. IN THESE GROUPS FAMOUS PEOPLE NAMED BERNIE FAMOUS MAYORS FAMOUS CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN IN BROOKLYN Show All Groups 1 of 6 « » QUOTES “What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just a handful of billionaires.” —Bernie Sanders…

This campaign season, I worked for Bruce Davis. Bruce Davis was the Democratic candidate chosen in the primary to run for House of Representatives in the Thirteen District in North Carolina. This campaign season was not a traditional one in comparison to what I’ve studied of past campaign’s. Our world has changed with the creation of social media and campaign’s have changed with it. In our campaign we had to look harder to find a proper strategy for using social media to are advantage and think…

Watergate began with the 1970s congressional elections because it created the fear that Nixon could lose the 1972 presidential election. The large antiwar demonstrations in Washington during 1971 caused the Nixon campaign to worry about Nixon’s reelection. For these reasons, White House special counsel Charles W. Colson made a list of enemies. To deal with the enemies on the list the Nixon administration recruited undercover agents and started plans for domestic surveillance. After the…

value and can be put in a particular order. The control variables in these tests are the median income of the congressional district and the percent of citizens who have a bachelor’s degree. The test will be performed in the following order, means comparison, T-test, Chi-Square test and regression test. First, will be a means comparison test to see if there is a difference between the Democratic districts and the Republican districts. The second test will be a T-test to test the relationship…

Vietnam and the Watergate scandal affected popular trust in the government. During his 1968 campaign, Nixon promised that he had a “secret plan” to put an end the Vietnam War. Once he was in office, he created a new policy called Vietnamization. With this, U.S. troops would slowly be withdrawn while South Vietnamese troops, backed by U.S. bombing, would take up fighting. However, Vietnamization did not end the war or end the antiwar movement like Nixon had planned. In early 1970, Nixon ordered…

refer to people who look to influence the passage of legislature in the Congress. Typically, groups hire representatives to promote the interest of the group: lobbyists talk with reporters, place advertisement in newspapers, and initiate written campaigns. They attempt to…

Richard Nixon was running to be re-elected in 1972.Nixon’s inner aid hired five men to collect information from the Democratic National Committee headquarters.The five men broke into the headquarters armed.When they got to the office they took pictures various copies of top secret documents, they also messed with the the office’s phones. It turned out that the men got caught on cameras. So, the group recognized that the wiretaps was not in good condition so they went back to Watergate on June 17…

institutions and brokers (parties, career politicians, congressional leaders and committees) that have traditionally held politicians accountable to one another and stopped everyone in the system from using it for naked self-interest all the time. As these intermediaries ' (we 'll call them middlemen) power fades, politicians, activists, and voters become more self-centered and unaccountable. The system fragments. Chaos becomes the new norm in both campaigns and government. A second virus was…

Significant congressional power is found in Question 17 The focus of debate over filibusters in 2005 was Question 18 Studies have shown significant correlations between congressional votes and constituency opinion regarding Question 19 Conference reports on __________ bills usually split the differences between the House and Senate versions. Question 20 In the organizational explanation of congressional voting behavior, the…