Negative campaigning

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…

interest in the majority of the developed countries and have as a result became important factors in politics, especially during campaign periods, the information in the paper, will be of great help. For example, in the United States of America campaigning process for the elections anticipated to take part later in the course of the year, a majority of the presidential candidates are carefully using the immigration debate to woo voters. Unfortunately, since many past terrorism activities and…

In the classic book The Sneetches, Dr. Seuss tells a story about biases and the desire to fit in. The star-bellied Sneetches look down upon the non-star-bellied Sneetches. “With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort ‘We’ll have nothing to do with the plain belly sort!’” With the invention of a star on and star off machine, a cunning entrepreneur capitalizes on the Sneetches desire to fit in (and later to stand out) by adding stars to the bellies of the Sneetches without…

An assessment of the US’ 18th Amendment; it’s supporters and it’s effect on organised crime, 1919-1933. The consumption of alcohol has been a controversial topic in America since the colonial period. Long before The Volstead Act of 1919, people and organisations from all over the country disputed the legality of alcohol and the existence of saloons. When prohibition was eventually introduced in the United States, it had a myriad of unforeseen consequences. One effect being the exponential growth…

For your upcoming re-election campaign of Barry Goldwater to be successful, we need to come up with a plan to placate voter concerns about Senator Goldwater’s health and age. This Campaign is coming at the perfect time with President Carter so underwhelming in office and such a charismatic upcoming Republican presidential candidate like Reagan, we believe that Republican voters will come out of the woodwork in higher numbers. Due to this prediction my team and I have done a poll and based on the…

INCLUSIVE EDUCATION - “SINGLE TEACHER- SINGLE CLASSROOM- UNCLASSIFIED STUDENTS” *Manikandan. R & **Dr. C. Manoharan Department of Education, Bharathiar University Abstract Today, teaching- learning activities are consistently advancing but the existence of discrimination among children is inevitable. Classrooms, schools and as well as the society are seriously influenced due to this. It is time for us to change the prevailing school education system and find an alternative to it. To bring…

not feel that can consider would do so. This is surely a benefit to all. Political change can be initiated by a large group of people with the will to do so, and as such I encourage you all to write to local senators and school boards and begin campaigning for this basic but hugely important…

Native American Mascot Controversy Since the 1960s, the Native American mascot controversy has been a prominent debate. To many indigenous communities, the usage of their cultural depictions in high school, college, or at professional level, some sports teams’ choice of mascots are offensive. Others disagree, noting that it stands as a symbol of pride for their establishment and insist they have the right to keep it that way. The National Collegiate Athletic Association-the group who regulates…

inform (or more truthfully, misinform) them that Jerry Vorrhis, who was at the time running against Nixon, was a communist. But these examples are both from the past 100 years. Let's take it back over 200 years to the election of 1800, where negative campaigning was invented. Although Thomas Jefferson was already spewing attacks about his once friend, now political enemy and also then President, John Adams, he took is a step further in this particular year. Jefferson hired a hatchet man named…

One of the common themes heard in the 2016 presidential election was the idea that the political system is corrupt; it is what allowed Donald Trump, a reality TV celebrity with no political experience whatsoever, to rise above sixteen other candidates, and it is what helped septuagenarian Bernie Sanders win over the hearts of the American youth. Now this idea that the American political system is tainted, unfortunately, has some ground to stand on: the lack of transparency between politicians…