Indonesian presidential election

While reading President Richard Nixon’s first inaugural speech, I could visualize all men working together towards a common goal of peace. Nixon voiced his desire for the American people just as the presidents did before him, we want peace and equality for all mankind; black and whites working together, to create a habitat of freedom throughout the world, peace at home and equality for all men black and white alike, working together dominating none. At the age of nine years old we moved from…

curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again.” In her first speech since losing the 2016 Presidential Election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton perfectly summarized the feelings of millions of Democrats, who, after volunteering countless hours for Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, were left in complete despair when they saw the results of the 2016 Election: Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress, nearly two thirds of State Legislatures and Governors, and a…

Presidential scandals affect the entire nation. While some are particularly worse than others, they can also help implement change in things that will make the nation grow stronger. For example, the election of 1876 with former president Rutherford B. Hayes helped the country understand how a president is elected into office and clarified the confusion between the importance of popular vote and electoral vote, which greatly impacted Washington D.C. However, there are other presidential scandals…

In fighting for a seat in the US senate in the election simulation game On the Campaign Trail, there are many similarities to a real election campaign which is to be expected. However, the more interesting issues are the dissimilarities the simulation shares with real world campaigns. The issues of polling, campaign advertisements, opponent strategy, and various campaigning techniques to name a few are some of the aspects the simulation goes into. When looking at the similarities of the…

Articles Reviews: Economics; The worst Paying US Jobs Glassman, Mark and Dorothy Gambrell. "The Worst Paying U.S. Jobs Are on the East and West Coasts." Businessweek.com, 2013.Web. 28 Oct 2013. . In their article published on October 11, 2013, Glassman and Dorothy present information about jobs that pay the lowest in the United States. They locate that the ten worst paid for jobs, are specifically on the East Coast and South Coast except for the cases of dishwashers in Las Vegas as well as…

United States of America, Presidents have delivered their first election victory speech. Although some presidents serve multiple terms, the first term’s victory speech marks a change of political and national leadership. Unlike victory speeches of the past, the 44th speech marked a national milestone in the election of Sen. Barack Obama as the first African-American President. The social and political climate at the time of his election could be interpreted as pestilential. As the newly…

Following the publishing of Barry Blitt’s 2008 caricature The Politics of Fear, The New Yorker faced immediate backlash in the midst of a presidential election. The officials of Obama’s 2008 campaign denounced this illustration as “tasteless and offensive”; an attempt to separate their candidate and his spouse from the prevailing image of an extremist, pro-war, and anti-American couple that sought to support insurrectionist forces in the Middle East. This image stems directly from controversies…

Have you ever wonder what it was like back in the 1960s? Maybe you thought about what other people thought of you, or even just something as simple as how did we get to where we are today? Lots of questions go through a person’s head as they are faced with everyday reality and everyone has their own opinion on it as well. That’s the case with J.D. Vance, author of “When It Comes to Baskets, We’re All Deplorable.” Vance is an opinion writer for the New York Times, in a column titled Hillbilly…

The presidential election is what takes up a majority of the news right now. What is hitting headlines even more at the moment is the first presidential debate. I read the editorial, “Clinton Puts Trump on Defense at First Debate”, which discusses the ins and outs of the debate. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went head to head on Monday, September 26th. The author addresses the highlights of the first presidential debate which included taxes, including Donald Trump’s own taxes, the war in Iraq…

The Presidential Candidates How do people view strong presidential candidates? What does a person of power look like? What makes up this perception of a strong presidential candidates? These are all questions that have changed over the years that media has effected both negatively and positively. The primary way media has effected these perceptions relates to the theories of a good presidential candidate in America. In this essay I will be talking about two candidates of 2016…