Margaret Chase Smith's Campaign Analysis

“The Candidate” is a prime example to the inside of a campaign and the inside of an election. Elections do not only include the candidate themselves but the campaign manager, the supporters, the nominee’s family and the media crew. During “The Candidate” democratic nominee John McKay uses many strategies in order to “not” win his election for senator of California. Going into this campaign McKay was in hopes that he would not win the election, as time passed his view of the election changed as did his strategies.

Millions of viewers tuned into the National Broadcasting Company television network for a special broadcast on the 27th of October. Viewers were anticipating Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” speech. Reagan was acknowledged for his acting in motion pictures and television episodes since 1937, and was now being seen in an unfamiliar role. Reagan emerged in support of the Republican nominee Barry Goldwater. Barry Morris Goldwater was a businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election. “A Time for Choosing” was effective, because he gave personal examples to capture the audiences’ attention, and gave humor to a tough subject.

On November 5, 1872, in Rochester, New York in a barber shop a woman by the name of Susan Brownell Anthony had the satisfaction of seeing her ballot for the presidential election be added to the ballot box. Just this one action of a woman caused a great uproar, multiple protests, an arrest, a trial that will be remembered for years to come, and a fine of $100-one that will never be paid.

The authors dissected and explained every portion of the Iowa Caucuses exceptionally well, to the point where Why Iowa? could be used as a textbook for a middle school class learning about the presidential nominating process. Not to undermine the text, it’s just written very simply and is fact based, citing countless studies and including many graphs with

With the level of scandal and conspiracy surrounding our current presidential election, it may seem difficult to imagine an election where the candidates were barely divisive, and a photo of a presidential nominee skinny dipping in the Hudson River was not enough to cause scandal, or even interest in a major-party candidate. However, if we rewind the clock just 112 years to the election of 1904, we find a Cortland County native running as the Democratic Party candidate that no one could say anything bad about. Unfortunately for him, he was running against the very popular Theodore Roosevelt.

Claire McCaskill, the first women Senator for the State of Missouri was elected in 2006. Senator McCaskill politically identifies with the Democrat Party (“About Claire,” n.d.).

In summer of 1966 Reagan’s campaign was rolling, having defeated the other republican primary candidates. Reagan was a head of Brown in all of the polls by 15 percentage points. The Brown camp was reeling, while the Reagan campaign transitioned seamlessly from the primary to the general election emerging as moderate with general appeal.

Barry Goldwater is considered the biggest loser in American history. In his presidential run, his opponent, Lyndon B. Johnson, won more of the popular vote than any man before. But Goldwater’s run sparked a great movement through America; the rise of conservatism. Goldwater was considered an extremist conservative, even dubbed Mr. Conservative, as he believed the true western ideals of individualism. He was a fair and strong political competitor, but his views were not totally agreed with at the time of his presidential race. Yet he was such a convincing man, that his ideas took root within the young people of the country. Throughout Barry Goldwater’s presidential run, conservatism became more popular and a rightward shift began to take place, but both parties grew stronger and more people became interested in politics due to his his time invested in politics.

Nov. 7 was voting day for New Jersey’s state, Ocean County’s and Lacey Township’s local races. Democrat Phil Murphy won, making him New Jersey’s 56th governor. Murphy beat Guadagno by 13 percent in the polls. He was expected to win before polling took place because Guadagno is associated with the current governor Chris Christie, whose approval rating recently dropped to a historic low of 15 percent according to a poll taken by Quinnipiac University.

The editorial section of Life Magazine devoted a lot of its writing to the 1968 Presidential campaign. Early on it seems that it will be Richard Nixon running against President Johnson. Only Richard Nixon and George Romney started out running in the primaries, suggesting that this seriously underrepresented the Republicans. However, if he were to run, Nelson Rockefeller was believed to be the republican most likely to beat Johnson. By the end on the first quarter the emergence of Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Kennedy, and Eugene McCarthy brings new animation to the race.

In Caucuses, the power to select delegates, who are sent to nominate presidential candidates at the National Party Convention, rests with Party activists who meet first at a local, then county and finally at a state level to make their choices. The caucus system propounds the strength of the Party elite who have an overriding influence as to who is chosen. As Ragsdale observed (1993, p.95), the system tended to be dominated and controlled by party bosses, as "deals were cut in smoke-filled rooms," rather than by ordinary rank-and-file members. This was far from democratic, and since the controversy surrounding Humphrey's nomination for the Democratic Party in 1968, the McGovern-Fraser Commission established reforms which saw the advent of the 'Media Primary.' Since 1972, this procedure has become the system with gravitas: 77% of the votes cast by Republican delegates in 1988 came from those selected by primaries.

Less than twenty-four hours before the election began, the New York governor told a television audience, “The Republican Party faces the danger of being dominated by a radical extremism out of tune with the time and contrary to the very principles upon which the party was founded.” Another slug to the chin of his opponent, but Goldwater was nowhere to be found, having decided that he would not fight back in the state after all. His absence left room for guesses on his mental state, though nothing could be confirmed. Rockefeller’s

I decided to do my research on comparative reasoning on California’s Senate Kamala Harris’s campaign ads because I actually voted for her this past election. In the video you see the words “fearless” in bold letters being quoted from Elizabeth Warren. She claimed that Kamala was “fearless.” The video lists three major reasons for Elizabeth’s claims. The ad states that Kamala “prosecuted predators and transnational gangs exploiting women and children, sued oil companies that violated hazardous waste laws, and sued big banks for homeowners that won a $20 million payout.” At the end again you see Elizabeth making a speech calling Kamala “fearless” and Kamala appears after with her slogan “Fearless for the people.”

At the conclusion of President Barack Obama’s historical consecutive terms in office there is going to be a large number of candidates that are vying for the nominations of the respective parties. Due to the constitutional term limits imposed on the President, Obama is barred to seek re-election in 2016. While there are about 10 candidates running for the republicans, there are only two still in the running for the Democratic Party. The way candidates are recognized by their respective parties to become a candidate for the United States Presidency is first by receiving an invitation to compete in the primaries, then being included in the nationwide polls, as well as being on the ballot for at least 75% of all states. At the conclusion of the February 1st caucus there were 3 Democrats and 10 republicans who were still in the Presidential race, since then one Democratic candidate had dropped out.

My article I have chosen this week is on the presidency campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It’s Title How Client Trump’s is crazy strategy Could backfire. The reason I have chosen to do the element of reason on this article is because the president election is the most talk about thing in the news today, my opinion is in the most important thing in the news and the American public is not pay enough attention to what’s going on in this race.