Republican Party

from fiction in regards to each parties’ views and points of interest. Each has stances that are intrinsic to them, and all of them have their flaws. This paper will discuss the most prominent of the parties, their candidates, and the overall strengths and weaknesses. A political party is an organization of people who share the same views about how power should be used a country or society. America was a pioneer of politics at the time it was founded, and created a party system not…

November 2014 found that the Senate included nine new Republican seats that had once been occupied by their opposing party. For the first time in nearly ten years, the Republican Party; which had cooperated with the members of its country, was in control of the entire Congress. The Democratic Party was forced to take a virtual backseat as the Republican Party took the wheel. In the future the Republican majority will have both a larger opportunity combined with a greater chance…

the 1960s. The backlash continues today and mobilizes voters with controversial social issues that are attached to pro-business economic policies, i.e. cultural anger is used to achieve economic gains. By focusing on issues like abortion, the Republican party can create financial benefits for the affluent -like tax cuts and union busting- because the single issue voters will accept anything that coincides with their dominant issue. Since there’s a strong rhetoric in the GOP that the elite,…

lost the war, though, the Union was presented with the problem of reincorporating the southern states back into the Union, a process known to historians as Reconstruction. With the goal in mind of creating a Republican presence in the south based on a Free Labor ideology, the Republican Party was only moderately successful, and their eventual failure resulted in a Democratic south as well as southern traditions, such as white supremacy, being retained. Nearing Union victory, President Abraham…

attempts to illustrate a rather biased opinion of the Republican party’s…

they will identify as either more Republican or more Democratic dependent upon their original political identity. Sunstein and Hastie contribute the growing partisan divide on the groupthink phenomena rather than changing ideological beliefs. Thus, as the political parties become more divided along partisan lines the groupthink phenomena will continue to widen the…

Reconstruction began throughout the nation but mostly in the South following the civil war in 1865. It had many widely positive and negative consequences within the period that were felt both short term and long term for the North and the South which would ultimately lead to the ending of Reconstruction period. In this essay I will compare and contrast the many sides of the Reconstruction period from Presidential changes, corruption of government, freedoms of blacks, rebuilding of a nation and…

In “GOP-Fox Circus Act,” Reed Richardson examines Fox News’s relative control on the success of the Republican Party and explains why both are struggling to gain prominence. In 2012, Republicans placed an incredible amount of faith in Mitt Romney to win the election over Barack Obama. However, all of that faith came crashing down on election night, when Obama won for the second time in four years. The second consecutive loss for Conservatives on a national level forced them to search for the…

When one thinks of Republican ideology today, one thinks of conservatives, with a geographic base in the regions of the South, Midwest and Appalachia. They’re known for emphasizing border and immigration control, small government, pro-life views, and a strict interpretation and protection of the enumerated rights set forth in the Constitution, specifically the right to bear arms. These ideals, and any other rhetoric one may hear if they listened to a pundit on Fox News. On the Democratic side,…

outside the home, abolish alimony and child support, and make women subject to the military draft.” Schlafly was successful in stopping the spread of the ERA with her ‘S.T.O.P. ERA’ campaign, which stood for “Stop Taking Our Privileges”. Whereas Republicans had been instrumental in supporting the ERA in the 1920s and 40s, in the 1980s…