George W. Romney

battleground states, or swing states, in which the electoral seats are up for grabs by either the Democratic or Republican nominee. For example, in the 2012 presidential election, both candidates, the incumbent President Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney, focused their television advertising in media markets that reached voters in just 10 competitive swing states (Ginsberg, 2014, p.; 403). Additionally, the race to reach 270 Electoral College votes has drastic effects on campaign strategies,…

will make but rather being popular. This is clearly focusing on something rather useless to the literate citizen in politics. The game is now a popularity contest. The research done by Open Secrets.org illustrates that President Obama outspent Mitt Romney on the 2012 election process. The same trend continues as you go back into history. This can conclude that the money spent by campaigns has a tremendous effect on the…

Throughout this class, we have learned about every aspect of nonprofits and how they operate. This includes the day-to-day operations as well as how they forecast and plan for the future. What is interesting about nonprofits is that they show up anywhere and everywhere. In the case of this paper, nonprofits are involved in the political atmosphere, helping particular candidates fund their campaigns for presidency. As of fairly recently, they have played an extremely important role in our society…

Legislative branches that shape American foreign policy. Today, partisanship is very strong and individuals of the same party support each other’s agenda. Further, elections can gauge the public’s opinion on foreign policy. The public’s distaste of George W. Bush’s foreign policy was showcased with Republicans defeats in Congress in 2006. This continued in 2008 with Democrats gaining a supermajority in the Senate and Barack Obama winning the White House. However, this division of the parties was…

Brien W Tarkington Professor Carol Singletary Eng 104 20 July 15 Searching for the Republican Party's Fountain of Youth Republicans have been running the same political blueprint for winning elections since Nixon's campaign in 1968. According to a New Yorker interview with Pat Buchanan, who was a part of Nixon's staff in '68, the republican power brokers sought to, “create the impression that there were two Americas: the quiet, ordinary, patriotic, religious, law-abiding Many, and the noisy,…

In democracy, public opinion is very important for politicians because citizens are the ones who elect their office representatives, at the same time citizens have to act together to solve collective action problems. Polls express citizens’ public opinion that government pays attention and mobilize their campaigns around these opinions. However, a person has a combination of different beliefs, feelings and behavior about politics based on information and knowledge that has been acquired…

The theory was used by researchers to interpret the events of post-9/11 era. Applying the Orientalism theory, Nayak (2006) argues that the ‘Self’/’Other’ dialectic is due to the fear of ‘Self’ from ‘Others’ and also the desperate need of ‘Self’ US to a coded Islamic fundamentalism of threatening ‘Others’. There is also a correlation between the Orientalism aspect of ‘Self’ or ‘West’ as a nation and the theory of ‘Imagined communities’, proposed by Anderson (1996). According to Anderson, nations…

According to Richard E. Neustadt, ‘The power of the American president is to persuade.’ I am going to analyse this statement in my essay, by answering why a president must persuade, looking at the relationship between the president and government, giving examples of when persuasion has worked and when it hasn’t, focusing on other ways the president can influence and finally ending with a conclusion. Firstly, why is it important for the president to persuade? The power to persuade is seen as…

Many soldiers went to war and lost their lives for this country, and they have never been told the exact reason for this war; they should be rightfully informed by the government the actual reason for being sent to another country to risk their lives. It would be the right thing to do because someone is not going to give their life and find out that it is meaningless. The difficult part is trying to get the government to reveal their true intentions to the public. The government is smart, so…

quadrennial United States Presidential Elections, it was the incumbent governor of Texas George W. Bush representing the Republicans, and incumbent Vice President Al Gore depicting the Democrats. Nevertheless, the elections came down to a neck and neck battle, and at the end, found its destiny relying on the state of Florida where a margin of victory triggered a recount. After the recount finally closed, George W. Bush was soon declared the winner as he gained majority of the electoral votes…