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“Media Buzz” article, Doggedness and Defiance: How Trump Won, by Howard Kurtz asserts that, “Trump's defiance enabled him to pull off a ‘miracle’” Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The article summarizes some of the major scandals and events involving Donald J. Trump, during his 2016 presidential campaign. It then draws the conclusion that Trump’s defiance is what enabled him to overcome the odds and be elected president. The article uses evidence which conflicts with how…

American Exceptionalism By: Krzysztof Zagozdon Political Science 201 Dr. Mihaela Neacsu Fall 2017 Today we can hear all the time politicians talking about how America is great. How superior we are comparing to other countries, with our personal liberties and democratic ideals. Talks like this are the most noticeable especially during political campaigns, when we can hear candidates from both political parties arguing their points of view of American Exceptionalism. But does the term…

world. Political Programmatic Function. An ideology, finally, tells its followers what to do and how to do it. It performs a programmatic or prescriptive function by setting out a general program of social and political action (Converse, 1964). The election survey was conducted to…

Michael Obama once said, “ When they go low you go high.” In this 2016 election it feels like we all are going low and just waiting to see who is going to go high and win this presidential election. This election has become weird and bizarre for the fact that candidates Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump tend to push each other buttons to confess things and call each other liars. They both have their own opinion and idea on how they will make society a better place for all of us , but both…

listening to President Obama speak. He delivered a speech about hope for change in America, which was his message throughout the presidential campaign. “A More Perfect Union” did not talk about…

formally launched his 2016 Presidential campaign on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City. Trump stated in his announcement speech ,"So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again.” Those last five words becoming the rallying cry of his campaign, “Make America Great Again.” Early in his campaign, most people thought his chances of becoming the Republican nominee for the presidential…

PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRE COMEY Name: Suliman ID: 58195 The firing of FBI Director James Comey has brought about very controversial reactions from people all across the US. Most of them not coming to a conclusive decision of why the President made the decision to fire home. Was it Rush or did he consult with his trusted advisors? And if he consulted, then why are there a contradiction of the statements behind his firing. President Trump gave a contradictory statement on May, 11th this year…

There have been many accusations and appreciation for the President Nominee DOnald Trump and more has been said all the time. This week in the Republican National COnvention, Trump gave his views and well the convention was a big big hit for both good and bad reasons. IN all of this Fareed Zakaria in his weekly column for the Washington Post dedicated his post to the Republican Convention at Cleveland and no doubts on he did that. But then the next thing is pretty shocking. He sarcastically…

Stormy Weather: The New Hampshire Primary and Presidential Politics by Dante J. Scala is written with the intent to deliberately educate about the New Hampshire Primary. From its birth, with through many examples at various primaries, Stormy Weather does just that without skipping a single beat. Mr. Scala utilizes a concept from Analyst Rhodes Cook that breaks up the nomination process into five stages, but adopts it as his own by applying it almost exclusively to the New Hampshire Primary.…

Historians Philip Jenkins and Matthew Dallek offer differing views on the achievements completed during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. While both historians do not seem to have liked president Ronald Reagan much, they base their suggestions about his presidency’s results on at least partially historically defensible claims. Although I understand why both historians said what they did based on historical facts from Reagan’s presidency, I find myself agreeing with Philip Jenkins’s statement of…