Liberal Democratic Party

The 2008 presidential election was the 56th presidential election and was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barak Obama was against Republican John McCain. The parties’ candidates focused mostly on change and reform in Washington, but in the last few months of the election campaign domestic policy and the economy surfaced as the main issues after the 2008 economic crisis. Obama’s ability to ensure voters that he could handle the economic crisis at the time and voters disapproval of the outgoing…

politics, they genuinely feel as if they are correct. When talking about politics we usually feel as if a similar question always comes up, which is: are you a democrat or a republican? Many would answer this question by simply stating the political party that they…

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.” Quoted from former President of the United States Ronald Reagan talking about hard work. In modern day America, there are so many ideologies thrown around, one that is very important to this country is “Bootstrap” Americanism. The core concept of “Bootstrap” Americanism, well noted by Reagan, is how strong values and hard work can…

that time he downplayed his family name and neither is brother nor father were present at the event (www.ballotpedia.com). Bush released an ad that was titled “Judgment which questions Donald Trump’s ability to be commander-in-chief”. Bush criticized Hilary Clinton’s “New College Compact” in a statement on August 10 on his campaign website (www.ballotpedia.com). On August 11, Bush attacked Clinton for her role in “creating the void that ISIS moved in to fill”; he remarked, “In all her…

As the presidential elections heat up, candidates will spend millions on public opinion polls. Candidates will fund surveys on issues and see where voters stand. In this two-party system will these polls actually reveal anything for republicans or democrats? In a country with over 318 million, people there are varying ideologies and attitudes. Some like Adam Abramowitz author of The Polarized Electorate suggests that these ideologies and attitudes reveal a deeply divided polarized electorate…

Zelizer, a Princeton University professor, misconstrued his belief of the association of the public preference of an anti-hero and how it correlates with candidate preference. Julian Zelizer believes Americans support the candidate of the Republican party because he possesses the traits of the anti-hero. Being that I’m a Donald Trump supporter, I do not agree with his assumptions that Americans prefer an anti-hero, I believe Americans want change. Furthermore, I believe the public is…

Political correctness is a problem that has swept over America in recent years. Every word anyone says in all walks of life, from politics, to business, to school, has become politically correct to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings. Everybody is a victim and everybody gets butthurt at the simplest words or phrases that come out of a guy’s mouth. The American society as an entirety has become too politically correct, from the politics of our government, to the businesses of our economy and the…

On May 17th, 2015, the Islamic State seized the Iraqi city of Ramadi. The loss of city and regional control will be a major setback to the United States’ effort to stop the spread of ISIS. With control over Ramadi, which is approximately 110 kilometers from Baghdad, ISIS is poised to continue its spread into the Iraqi heartland. In the eyes of the American public, responsibility will almost solely fall upon the President and his administration for failing to keep the city out of the control…

The 1990s began with the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ross Perot. The 2 questions we have to ask is how a sitting president with an 80% approval rating in 1990 lost the election 2 years later and what caused the right to left political shift. Republican’s seemed slightly lost after the Persian Gulf War and were leaning to a more conservation right. With no major foreign affairs to focus on all eyes were on the economy. George bush then uttered those 6 famous words…

Industrial Revolution, they controlled most of the wealth, and thought that since they or their parents worked hard to get it they deserved it. The Republican Party was corrupt at this time, and was more successful than the Democrats. All the Republican Presidents during this time period were corrupt in some way, and even the leaders of the Republican Party were corrupt, men like Roscoe Conkling and James G. Blaine. In fact, there was so much corruption that reformers were few and frowned upon…