over the phone from his home in California his proposed budget cuts willing over Democrats. Although these democrats were fence-sitters, the idea of a Republican president winning over the other party was something successful. (UPI, webpage) In today’s political era, it would be next to impossible for parties to agree and compromise on a certain policy, especially an economic one. Reagan recognized and seized an opportunity. In Edward’s “The Strategic President”, he wrote that, “effective…
Refinement not Recall The Obama administration has been known for many things over the last eight years. One of the most prominent is Obamacare, arguably the most controversial piece of legislation in decades. President Obama made it his mission to create a major healthcare reform in his years as president and thus we saw the creation and implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly referred to as Obamacare. Many Americans still do not understand what this law…
Standing in the stage with four men in the small democratic field, Hillary was up against an angry 74-years old grumpy socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who practically yelled all throughout the debate. The youngest candidate in this democratic field is O’Malley, 52-years old, who struggled to gain any traction of exposure during the debate but gave a strong closing remark. He also had a slip up when talking about the recent situation occurring with Russia and Syria by confusing the…
Republican Nomination. In 1980, Reagan entered the Republican nomination battle with support from the Republican Party in the polls. At this point Reagan had been in the national political presence for around 16 years and in the movie/film presence for about 30 years before that. “There was some suggestion among journalists that he remained something of an enigmatic figure to the mass public. As Newsweek put it, "at the very hour of his coronation... as the Republican nominee, he remains only…
fate of the American people was resting on three major candidates: Republican President George W Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton, and the Independent Ross Perot. During this election, Ross Perot, the third party candidate, obtained 19% of the vote, which was the highest percentage for an Independent party in American history. The race for the White House was on: Who was the stronger candidate? Who would convince the American people that if elected, he would support them? Whose views on foreign…
At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Current Senatorial candidate, Barack Obama delivered the Keynote speech. In the speech, Obama introduces John Kerry as the Democratic Candidate to run against the incumbent President, George W. Bush. Obama delivers this speech to rally his fellow democrats to stand behind John Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, to meet the incredibly difficult task of beating a Presidential incumbent in their second bid for office. In order to achieve the…
year term as the prime minister, he was well known as a stern disciplinarian in party solidarity, with an MP drop out rate of about twenty eight percent. While this increased Harper’s prime ministerial power, it is also speculated that it harmed his chance to continue his term of almost a decade. Chosen by the prime minister from the caucus of the government, there are various positions to fill in addition to being a member of Parliament. Contributing to the control of the prime minister, “they…
last decade, many Democrats believe there is no media bias, yet Republicans do believe of a media bias. Yes, media bias is prevalent and a problem. Media outlets hold a bias for the democratic party, why else would democrats not believe in a bias? The media uses their powers to influence the elections with a democratic controlled media, a conservative belief of bias and little objectivity. Our country is provided with false information and bias in the news. Democrats run the media. For example…
a procedure in which a person or company receiving a government contract is expected to forward a percentage of the profits to the party The Beauharnois Scandal of 1931 is an example of Toll-gating in Canadian politics. This scandal involved building and financing a huge hydro-electric project on the St. Lawrence river and a secret $700,000 payment to the Liberal Party. Bribery is an offering or accepting of illegal payments of money, goods or services in exchange for favours delivered or…
to presidency. During Obama first two years in office, He and the Democratic party had control of the white house. The Democratic allies in Congress had a decent amount of policy accomplishment the economic stimulus, bringing the financial system back from the brink of collapse, rescuing automakers, universal health care, sweeping reform of financial regulation,…