Differences Between 2004 And 2012 Presidential Elections

Beginning with a contextualization of America surrounding the 2004 presidential election. This was the first election since the 9-11 attacks and the beginning of the war on terror. Many Americans uneasy, and the state of the nation was unstable. With this fear and instability,

Obama portrayed himself as the candidate of change. His slogan was “Change we can believe in”. His Republican opponent was Sen. John McCain. To make sure that his campaigns and speeches would help him win the election, Obama began fundraising and broke previous records for presidential primary and general campaigns. The campaign avoided using public campaign funds, and raised all of its money privately. They had raised more than $650 million itself. (H.Cooper) He also had television advertisements that ran in 18 states including traditionally Republican states such as Alaska and North Carolina. (J.Harwood) His campaign spent $27 million on advertisements against McCain and Republican National Committee’s combined a total of $24.6 million. (J.Rutenberg)

The 2000 President Election isn’t considered to be the typical election that occurs every four years in our society. I am opening up the discussion of this important topic in American presidential history by first sharing a fact that not many people may know: there have been three previous presidential elections in which one candidate won the popular vote but not the electoral vote and lost the election. The 2000 Presidential Election was considered to be one of the most highly contested elections in presidential election history (Summary). The election was between Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) and Vice President Al Gore (D-TN). On Election Day night, news stations across the country were all giving an early win of Florida to Gore and

When George Washington was elected President in 1789 by members of the fledgling United States of America, he was setting into motion a tradition that has stood the test of over 225 years - the presidential election. Even as the United States has seen dozens of wars, made hundreds of scientific advances, and selected thousands of politicians to seats everywhere from small town councils to Congress, the principles of the election have remained the same; the people band together to determine who will best protect their interests at home and assure that the US will always remain on top in foreign policy. Oftentimes, this is found to be a difficult decision, as public opinion is constantly wavering. One sees this in action particularly during the 1992 election - a battle of wills between Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ross Perot; complete with lead changes, major vote swings, and Perot’s unprecedented initial success - ultimately a false alarm to the bipartisan establishment.

CNN reported on Election Day that the economy was the most important issue to voters. The Democratic platform for the economy was to provide quick relief for the economy with a fifty billion dollar jumpstart. The Democrats also want to cut taxes for the middle class and end tax breaks for companies outsourcing jobs. Obama blamed deregulation for the financial crisis. The Republican platform for the economy consisted of making the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent , increasing the international trade and building nuclear plants both of which will create new jobs (Woolley 2008).

October of 2000. The people of the nation were casting their votes and the two leading

Assess the extent to which incumbents have an adage over challengers in congressional elections. (25marks)

The next benchmark changed this aspect of an overbearing party, however it would create large amount of power now going to the candidate themselves. Wilson felt that there was an absence of strong leadership in government, and sought a national primary to enhance an individual candidates strengths, allowing them to establish their own popular constituency. FDR carried out Wilson’s plan, and being that FDR established the modern presidency, every president has continued this. The consequences of this has been a connection between the people and the president. By allowing the primaries, if gives the people a chance to input their decision into presidential selection long before the Framers intended them to be able to. The candidates now individually raise issues important to them, and in fact have fallen into the trap that the Framers’ feared. Candidates play on issues the public finds important to get attention, and in the process make their own commitments to the public on what they are going to do about it, when in reality, they do not always have the power to be able to do the things they say they will. This has changed the public’s selection on the president’s selection from the qualifications of the president, to what they promise to do on certain

The United States Presidential elections are often events that captivate and interest a number of people around the world. The 2000 U.S. presidential election was particularly notable for more than one reason. Certainly, the fact that an election year in the year 2000, the marking of the next millennium and next century, is significant in of itself. In addition, there were a number of critical issues facing the candidates in this election, as with any election. The role, presence, and influence of the United States media were additional factors that heightened the tension of the 2000 presidential election. The election itself was fraught with controversy. The Supreme Court had to be involved and render a ruling with respect to accusation of fraudulent vote counting. Overall, the 2000 United States Presidential Election is an election that is remembered for controversy, polarization of the American public, as well as issues of confusion and mistrust between the American public and the American government.

The 2000 an 2004 elections were won by Republican candidate, George Bush. The 20008 election was won by the Democratic candidate, Barak Obama. President Bush won the consecutive elections of 2000 and 2004. Support for George Bush increased amongst all different voters because of the action he took after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The increase of popularity with Bush’s policies can be seen in the data on the graph.

While Obama is campaigning for the upcoming presidential election, many citizens have voiced their opposition to re-electing him into office. The economy’s downward spiral over the last four years has affected his loss of votes and now the

There is a large amount of enthusiasm surrounding the election of a new commander in chief in the first couple months. During the first couple years, that same enthusiasm and momentum is alive. In their third and fourth year, all of the president’s supporters are eager to re-elect him. However, in their fifth and sixth years, presidencies tend to run out of gas, new ideas, and their previous agenda has dried up. As a result, not only do presidents have to come up with a new agenda, the nation also commences to steadily and progressively grow fatigued, resulting in bad six-year itches and usually unsuccessful efforts to transfer possession of the White House to the vice president or some other member of the

Wikipedia After a bruising round of primary elections, the embattled Democrats chose Massachusetts senator John Kerry to represent their ticket. Kerry pushed progressive visions of government and counted on his Vietnam War record to counter charges that he would be weak in the face of terrorism. But that plan backfired as Kerry fell under attack for his very public opposition to Vietnam once he had returned from battle in the early 1970s. In spite of increased public misgivings about the war in Iraq, Bush nailed down a decisive victory in November 2004. He received the first popular vote majority by a presidential candidate in more than a decade—60,639,281 to 57,355,978—and won the Electoral College, 286 to 252, if by only one state (this time Ohio).

The advertisement consisted of just one man, Joe Soptic, an ex-steel plant worker, of GST Steel, speaking against Mitt Romney. He personally points blame on Romney for the death of his wife. He says that when “Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my health care,

Obama and the U.S military tracked down and killed Osama Bin Laden. Obama also pushed through several major policies during his first term in office, including helping the appeal “don’t ask, Don’t Tell”, also passing health care laws known as Obama care, doing this all with no Republican help. Obama also began his first term of presidency in the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, desire bailouts from the banking and the auto industries. The financial crisis on Wall Street lead to a record housing foreclosures. The national debt passed 16 trillion dollars, and unemployment remained high. In Obama’s second run in office Republicans nominee Mitt Romney for Massachusetts governor to run against Obama in the 2012 presidential election, winning his second term in office. Barack Obama was re-elected on November 6,