Scandals, insults, and embarrassing are three words that can accurately define the 2016 election. Politicians have been using anything possible to edge out their opponents, publicizing every mistake in the form of commercials, photos, and social media. Arguably one of the biggest mistakes Hillary Clinton made is the scandal of her personal email and over 31,830 deleted messages. Leaders and politicians argue that Clinton put the country’s national security in danger by sending and receiving classified information over an easily hackable personal email address, and lying about it. Donald Trump, the republican candidate, has been using this scandal to exploit Hillary’s negative attributes and the potential effects that can arise having her as president. More specifically, Trump and his campaign team dedicated an ad titled “Betrayed” solely for the purpose of addressing this concern. While the 2016 Donald Trump political commercial is effective in conveying his message that Hillary Clinton is unfit and dangerous to fill the presidential position, the ad loses validity due to stylistic choices--such as the out-of-context video clips--and over dramatic tone.
Trump’s campaign chose to design the ad around the illegal activities and scandals in the news from Hillary Clinton, specifically focusing on her private email controversy. This topic is not secret to anyone with access to a tv, radio, or internet; however, the facts can get confusing. Joshua Voshees, writer for Slater
The New York Times columnist David Brooks calls it “the greatest political shock of our lifetime.” At the end of August, it seemed as though Donald Trump was destined to fail in his bid to become the 45th President of the United States. After months of new revelations of sexual harassments and use of vulgar language, spectators of the political sport were almost certain that Secretary Clinton would win, and then that fateful day came. Everyone, including some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters were shocked at the outcome of the election, leaving many to ask how such a thing could happen. While still shocking, ideas and concepts learned in the Election the President seminar have helped to explain the process, the results, and even the candidates themselves.
The media runs rampant, promoting both true and fraudulent information. Many Americans do not trust political advertising because it lies about personal backgrounds, exaggerates, and take things out of context to manipulate voters’ sentiments. (Gerdes, Louise) Each year, it seems like the candidates find new and clever ways to cast their opponents in negative lights. A more recent example of this was the 2014 North Carolina Senatorial race between Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis. An abundance of bruising commercials aired on the radio and television all around the state, bashing each candidate’s views, from taxation to abortions to women and gay rights. However, despite all this negative campaigning, the American public has learned to decipher between true and false. Mudslinging is not a new occurrence. With a long history dating back to the near founding of the country, negative campaigning had plagued nearly every political candidate in America. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams criticized each other mercilessly during the 1800 election, from foreign and domestic policies to their own person behavior (Gerdes, Louise). Alexander Hamilton, under his pseudonym “Phocion,” accused Thomas Jefferson of having an affair with on of his slaves (Editorial Accuses Jefferson). Jefferson was also accused of being an atheist, causing many older women to bury Bibles in their backyards in case he got elected. During the 1828 campaign, Andrew Jackson himself was accused of murdering Indians. His wife was charged with adultery (Kennedy, David M.). After many decades, Americans have learned to decrypt the negative campaign advertising and find the facts. The people are neither obligated to believe everything they listen to, nor are they required to gather their information from just one source. Newspapers, Internet articles, political speeches, and radio and televised news broadcasts, such as 60 Minutes and Face the
This presidential election is gearing up to be one of the most if not the most interesting, and strange presidential election in the history of the United States of America. In addition, both Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton are not very loved by the American people. Many individuals feel as if Clinton is a rotten liar and should be in federal prison, and on the other hand many Americans are scared of trump and his ideologies. Sadly, one of them will win the race to the White House, unless something shady occurs. Nevertheless, candidates always make mistakes during their campaigns; sometimes costly mistakes. Though many political scientists have been in favor of Clinton winning this election, there four costly mistakes she can make that can cost her the election. As a matter of fact, she’s currently makes those mistakes.
One of the president’s main goals during their term is to leave a positive and lasting impression on the country. No man wants to be known for the way that they ruined the economy or lost the trust of the citizens because of their poor law making skills or their lack of leadership skills. The president that I chose to analyze was President William Jefferson Clinton. He may not have left the office as a saint, but he did leave an impression on the nation that makes him a well-respected president in America’s history.
As a barely twenty-year-old junior at a sheltered private college, I have to confess that it’s been very hard to conceptualize and realize the severity of the 2016 election. What started off as a race of what seemed like a million different candidates, the polls quickly zoned in on two candidates we could’ve never predicted to be the voting citizens’ final choice. It’s both overwhelming, and simple, deceitful, and truthful – this election seems to be full of contradictions and half truths, and the opaque nature of a once seemingly transparent media complicates matters further in an election that seems convoluted even on paper. Along with the legislative branch, the media itself has turned into a monster we never thought we’d have to wrangle. We are surrounded by propaganda, caricatures, and cartoons everywhere we turn, especially in print media like
In “Unfit”, Clinton uses fallacious arguments in order to attack her opponent’s ethos and ultimately suggest Trump’s propensity to have a ruinous effect on the nation. Ramage reveals that ethos is focused on the writer’s character and “refers to the credibility of the writer.” Clinton, in her commercial, uses various quotes, from reliable sources, which depict Trump with very little ethical appeal. For instance, in the commercial, columnist Charles Krauthamer remarks, “You have to ask yourself, do I want a person of that temperament in control of the nuclear codes? And as of now, I’d have to say no”
Every four to eight years Americans go through the long presidential elections process. With every presidential election comes new stories, secrets, and learning more about presidential candidates personal live than most Americans want to know. Jennifer Wiener wrote an article in the New York times called, ‘The Love Story Primary,’ saying that America’s should know everything about candidates’ personal lives. Candidates have made their personal lives America’s business. The politicians have used their spouses and children, incorporated them as part of the story they sell to American’s by putting them in their ads and brought them on debate stages. But Americans do not need to learn everything about presidential candidates and their personal lives.
His honest campaign–fueled by subpar intelligence and reasoning–is healthily imbued with authentic sentiment and a rather sizeable dollop of voters that only a vast wealth could buy. Despite such positive remarks, glowing polls, and America’s growing respect in Trump, not everything is as it seems to be. For days, Trump has fiercely hidden a secret. A secret that if ever unveiled, would shake the very republican ground
If voters were to review past presidential candidates’ advertisements, they would be guaranteed to come across instances where someone’s words were twisted and turned against them by their opposing party. This is a classic use of manipulation to make oneself appear to be the “good-guy.” Hence, it is not surprising that this has not changed in the 2016 election. However, what has changed is that there is a woman running for president—she’s cunning, but her arguments are distorted. With clips of girls evaluating their figures while playing interviews with harsh words, Clinton asks, “Is this the president we want for our daughters?” In one of her new ads, “Mirrors,” Hillary Clinton follows suit and manipulates potential voters into a prejudiced opinion of Donald Trump by taking his words out of context to exploit him.
This year's presidential election has attracted the attention of citizens and of the media like never before. The candidates have flung mud, made false promises, and of course rallied against the opposition just like every four years. The difference this year is the candidate Donald Trump; a multimillionaire of the age of 69, New Yorker, and a loud mouthed businessman. Running with the slogan, “Make America Great Again,” the New Yorker released a TV ad entitled “Great Again.” In this ad, Donald Trump spreads a message of fear of domestic terrorism, desired military conflict, and offensive isolationism to an audience that possess a deep anger and a sense of voicelessness.
Bill Clinton went through an entirety of events before coming into his impeachment. In 1976 he was elected attorney general of Arkansas. In 1978 he was the youngest governor in the U.S. He had lost his reelection but won again two years later. In 1992 Clinton was elected president but owed $50,000 in campaign debt. Clinton's friend McDougal decided to help Clinton. The government believed McDougal raised the money through the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. He actually borrowed 30,000 from the company. The governor removes McDougal from being president of Madison Guaranty savings and Loan but he did not lose ownership of it.
Creating ads for the presidential election has been a negative impact. Ads about Donald Trump have been made and “approved” by Hillary Clinton. The ads are about negative things about each candidate. Other ads are about Hillary Clinton and “approved” by Donald Trump. Each ad is about bashing each other and trying to pursuade people to not vote for one another.
William (Bill) Clinton was only the second president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998, but he was acquitted by the Senate the following year (“Bill Clinton.”). President Clinton was impeached for perjury and for obstruction of justice; however, he was acquitted of both charges just two months later because of “lack of merit.” Even after being acquitted from his impeachment, Bill Clinton realized he’d made a mistake, as most humans do, and resigned his presidency and formally apologized to his family and to the rest of the United States for his actions. Despite this scandalous event, it is my opinion that President Bill Clinton should not be judged on this one scandal, but by the many great things he’s done for this country.
During the 2016 Presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, there were many campaign advertisements from both sides that strongly resonated with voters. Clinton’s role model ad, for example, sent a powerful message by illustrating Trump’s substandard behavior as a presidential candidate. On the other hand, Trump’s “Hillary Clinton won 't Change Washington” ad demonstrated Clinton’s ineffectiveness as a leader as well as being part of the problem and not the solution. For example, one of the reasons that Trump was able to win the 2016 presidency was to increase voter turnout from the white working class male by connecting Clinton to the Washington elites. As a result, this paper will be examining the effects and implications that both of these campaign ads had towards the electorate in terms of how each candidate’s message played a role in the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election.
While it’s practically impossible to write a research paper without referring to the scandalous side of President Bill Clinton, this research will also spotlight how excellent Bill Clinton was as a president and present interesting facts about his life.