Minority Candidates Advantages And Disadvantages

     This election year the presidential candidates are courting the minority voters like never before in history. States like Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and Ohio are considered swing states or battleground states. In many states voter registration drives have significantly increased the number of minority registered voters, particularly Hispanics, African Americans, and Asians. The candidates are well aware of this and are campaigning issues relevant to minority voters because they are prominent players in the political arena in the upcoming presidential election (Kamman).

One of the main reasons for a state to be created would be the protection of the people who live in it, therefore, one of a state’s main concerns should be the security of its citizens, especially in dealing with threats, whether they are traditional or non-traditional. Every day, lives are put at peril when these threats are not dealt with properly.

Fundraising success correlates strongly with electoral success. In 2002, 95 percent of House winners raised more than their opponents. In 2004, more than 95 percent of House winners outspent their opponents. (4 “Money Is the Victor in 2002 Midterm Elections,” Center for Responsive Politics, Nov. 6, 2002. 5 “2004 Election Outcome: Money Wins,” Center for Responsive Politics, Nov. 3,

During the 2012 presidential elections, many of the vote turnout rates revealed that the minority vote was the most decisive and important vote for the election. In fact, the minority vote, in 2012, was accredited for Barrack Obama’s presidential incumbency. An example analysis of the aforementioned statement was shown in the Minority Turnout Determined the 2012 Election article by William H. Frey. In his article Frey reports that “[the] increased minority turnout was indeed responsible for Obama’s win in the 2012 election… during this period, the (typically Democratic leaning) combined Black and Hispanic electorate rose to approach nearly quarter of eligible voters” (The Brookings Institution). Frey’s research helps illustrate how crucial,

26. This document demonstrates the amount of money raised by both political parties, the democrats and republicans, in 2010 to pay for their election campaign. It reveals that campaigning is very expensive in our system. This document relates to the topic interest groups in which we covered in class. Based on the document the Democratic Party made the most money for campaigning, which can allocate for them winning the election that year.

The clearest and most precise way to comprehend and analyze the data is by constructing tables and graphs in which the data can be systematically grouped in order of clearest relevance. Once the total number of in house lobbyist, outside lobbyist and money spent on lobbyist are compiled into graphs viewers will have a much simpler time dissecting and discerning the value of the data. By observing the amount of lobbyist present for these organizations and the amount of money spent on lobbyist by each organization, onlookers will began to see the expansive role lobbyist play in American politics.

The data analyzed for this research is derived from a 2014 University of New Orleans Survey Research Center poll as well as election results data from the 2014 US Senate election in Louisiana. The Louisiana Secretary of State’s office produces post-election statistical data for both election totals and Early Voting, broken down into demographic categories of: race, age political affiliation and gender. Election cycle data used for this study are the Louisiana Congressional general election stages in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014.

The first is the percentage turnout for congressional elections. The second is the measure of black voter registration. Previous studies have found that there were two different changes occurring in voter turnout. First, and most obvious, more black people were registering and turning out to vote in the South. For decades, black voter turnout was an insignificant part of the southern electorate. If African Americans turned out to vote before World War II, they voted for the party of Lincoln. If you look at the numbers, a very small percentage of black people were registered at the start of the period of study. The percentage of registered voters was selected since measures of the turnout of black voters do not start early enough for this study. One of the things that research has consistently shown increased ones’ likelihood of voting, is if they are registered to vote. You can’t vote if you are not registered. Moreover, the dramatic increase in voter registration among black people appears to follow the same pattern for voting among the black population. The data shows dramatic increases in black voter registration and turnout with 94 percent of black people in Arkansas being registered to vote in

The last section of the chapter focuses on Political advertisements and case studies of presidential elections. The focus of these elections was to sway the votes of white people specifically. The various candidates used the fear of minorities, especially black people, to fuel their campaign. For example, Nixon referred to the “silent majority,” which refers to the white voters in the United States. He used this strategy in order to get white Democrats to switch to being Republican. Ronald Reagan used similar tactics in his campaign by focusing on the “post-racial America” (p.64). Reagan focused on the

Even though we have an African American President, racism is still a part of American culture. After carefully reviewing the Brown, Garner, and Gray cases, it reinforced my belief that all lives matter. Minorities in America should be seen as a higher priority than we are now. We do not want to be superior to the whites, we just want to be on the same playing field as them. In all these cases, each unfortunate victim was mistreated due to the color of their skin and killed unnecessarily by the police. As African Americans, we see that high authoritative people can abuse their power, which sometimes lead to death for the victim. Because some police officers feel like they are dominate, they sometimes use that feeling or power to beat people

In the Green’s chapter How Partisan Attachment Structure Politics, the argument is made that “partisans’ sense that they are part of a team” and thus, “feel themselves to be part of the constant competition for public support and control of government that typifies party politics” (Green 219). A counterpoint could be made by justifying that partisans may genuinely feel that their own party’s candidate “has their best interests at heart”. However, after controlling for evaluations of the incumbent administration's performance, the effects of party identification still persisted (Green 219). Ultimately, party identification “predicts the vote because partisans pull for their team and the social groups that it symbolizes while at the same time rooting against the other party and its allied social groups” (Green 220). This assertion can be verified using the exit poll results from the 2016 election, taken from CNN. African Americans, a group that consistently votes for the Democratic candidate, continued to vote for the Democratic candidate in 2016, by a 89% to 8% margin. Furthermore, Donald Trump dominated his key demographic, uneducated white voters, by a 66% to 29% margin (“2016 Election Exit Polls”). This is consistent with the idea that “partisans pull for their team and the social groups it symbolizes” as Barack Obama won the African-American vote by a

Early voting statistics in presidential elections provide us with demographic data that helps us understand the characteristics and situations of the citizens who are most likely to take advantage of early voting. After watching the video “Rachel Maddow – GOP targets Democratic turnout with war on early voting,” one can become very interested in the concept that African Americans, minorities, and Democrats makeup the majority of voters who take advantage of this system of early voting.

With Obama’s historic candidacy as the first major party African American candidate for president, Political science research conducted prior

While the 2012 election was a close race, it ultimately came down to the presence of minorities to determine the outcome of the vote. The change came down to a few factors, first a shift in the turnout of different groups of eligible voters, a change in preferences for the candidates they vote for and the eligible voter population had changed significantly demographically. They stated how the black turnout rose nearly two percent and has been the highest since 1968 when they first began conducting the census surveys. After Barack Obama was elected president, many Americans believed that we would transition into a post racial society, but as we see the numerous instances of racial conflicts keep happening we see that this is far from true. I

In this research, I will investigate the conditions in which members of Congress seek out a position on a prestige committee. This research focuses on House members specifically since their constituency representation is more specialized, making it easier to determine which members have transitioned from local to national issues to those who have not.