Indonesian presidential election

When election season starts coming around every four years, there are many different aspects to planning out how to proceed and how to win, when it comes to the candidates or the President of the United States. Most of the time they base their campaigns on winning over their party population whether that be Democratic or Republican. But what happens when this candidate gets elected? Are their best interests in the people or in their own endeavors? Political scientist Morris P. Fiorina makes…

This year the parties have lost control of the election process. This is due to populist candidates coming from outside the traditional party system, which is “a style of politics and rhetoric that seeks to arouse a majority or at least what their leader believes is a majority” (Crick, 77). The media has been focusing…

When Joseph Schlesinger wrote Ambition and Politics in 1996, everything changed (Fox and Lawless 644). He created a “rational choice paradigm” to help understand potential candidates’ decisions to run for political office (Fox and Lawless 644). The rational choice paradigm recognizes that political ambition is a “strategic response to a political opportunity structure” and that citizens have a higher likelihood to decide to run for office when they have favorable political and structural…

America George C. Edwards III discusses how political equality is hindered by the existence of the electoral college. Edwards very eloquently argues that the electoral college is a threat to American democracy. The author uses statistics from past elections to support his claim that the electoral college leads to political inequality. Edwards first defines why political equality is so crucial to democracy. Then he goes on to state how the popular votes have translated into the electoral…

the election. I am not actually voting for Trump directly. I am actually voting for an elector that is pledged to vote for Trump. In this day and age we as the people should have direct elections for president. The founding fathers created this system. To make sure the voting process would be fair and just. They had a fear that the people would not vote for the person with…

Professor Sherry Sharifian 2 November 2017 Why to Vote for Me? Running for elections, organizing campaigns, building offices and maintaining the balance between funds and expenses play a crucial role for being a successful official. Even to run a small local office, money is essential, so does the Texas office. The history of Texas reveals that there is no calculated amount of money required to run for the office or election. Sometimes, by spending little amount candidates gain majority whereas…

method is very good in choosing our President, but I am not so sure about that. I do not like the entire Electoral College system. This system basically means that a person could win over half of every state’s majority popular vote, but still lose the election. We are told in school that every vote counts, but that is a lie.…

the year when a vote is held, either for elections or on various laws. Of these, the presidential election is the most important. The president is considered one of the highest positions in the government, so a nationwide vote on Election Day is held every four years to give citizens the chance to decide on the next president. However, in America, the president is not decided on by the citizen’s vote, also known as the popular vote. Instead, presidential candidates must win a majority of votes…

information of the movie, the 2000 Presidential Election was one of the most suspenseful and unclear presidential election for more than a century. The controversy in the election was something so difficult to resolve and so difficult to the country. It took five weeks to decide who would be the next President of the American Republic. It had been uncertain to United States (America) who was the candidate who had won the Presidency. The election had begun like any other election, but there was a…

In a period of an election, people look around and about for a candidate that has policies that will favor them. Most candidates, unfortunately, use this as a leverage to raise false hopes and promises. The people of America deserves better than that. A candidate should be realistic and not just for the sake of power, throw dust into the eyes of the people. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton was the 42nd present of the UnitedStates and the first democrat to serve two terms in office since FDR. He…