Political Campaign Analysis

the “battle of the standards”. When McKinley took office in 1897, the economy began to look

Traditionally, presidential candidates did not campaign for themselves, instead party loyalists campaigned in their stead. This was until prior the year 1896 when James Blaine spent approximately 6 weeks campaigning. Following Blaine’s footsteps, William Jennings Bryan would do the same spending the whole period of campaign season on the campaign trail. The results of the election would show that McKinley won 276 votes versus Bryan’s 176 votes. I do think Bryan’s nontraditional campaign method did in fact have something to do with losing the election. Going back a couple years, the Democratic response to the economic depression of 1893 paved way to mindset of the nation when electing the president of 1896. Silver was not permitted in use of

One successful strategy applied in political propaganda is “plain folks”. This strategy appeals to regular citizens in different ways, whether making the politician seem down-to-earth, homely, or simply relatable. One example of this is when candidates always seem to be rolling up their sleeves, wearing jeans, drinking beer, or doing some other “ordinary” activity. This gives politicians a more approachable and empathetic vibe, and is helpful in relating voters to the candidate, hence giving them a desire to vote. Another example of this is shown in Document C, through Stevenson’s song “I Love the Guv”. The lyric “I’d rather have a man with a hole in his shoe than a hole in everything he says” is a powerful example of this type of strategy, as it is making Stevenson just seem like another normal citizen. Although this strategy is extremely effective and quite ethical, it may be, at times, less than informative.

Since 1952, television has played a major role in presidential elections. Television allows candidates to reach a broad number of people, and personalities, to help push along their campaigns. Campaigns help the candidates just as much as the voters. The candidates get to be identified, and known to the voters, and the voters get to hear and see how a specific candidate identifies with their needs and wants. The best way to get this information out there is through the most used form of media, television.

The 2012 American presidential election was a hot contested match between Mitt Romney and President Barrack Obama. The two candidates had different stands on a number of issues such as education, taxes, economy, healthcare and many more.

Former 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will join GOP hopeful John Kasich in two campaign stops the eve before a critical vote in Ohio.

In an article by the Washington Post, Gary Johnson, former 2016 presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, has announced that he will not be pursuing another presidential run in 2020. Johnson’s reasoning behind his decision is a result of the growing turmoil currently spreading throughout Washington politics. Johnson specifically blamed the turmoil on President Trump himself. In addition, the article explains that even though Johnson was unsuccessful in the road to the White House, he was arguably one of the most successful candidates in the history of the Libertarian Party. Likewise, Johnson had broke several barriers that casted greater light on the idea of voting for a third party candidate, rather than the candidates of the two mainstream parties. Also, Johnson who was former Republican Governor of New Mexico, explained his agreeance with Arizona’s Senator Jeff Flake in regards to Flakes predictions about the soon to be end of the Republican Party. Finally, Johnson explained that even though he does not support the actions of President Trump, he

As the 2016 Presidential election is approaching and President Barack Obama’s term is coming to a close, I’d like to look back at the previous election of 2012 and analyze what exactly happened. From the parties themselves to campaign fundraising and propaganda effectiveness.

Since the United States of America were first established, the news media has had a large and important role in influencing the people. Even during the American Revolution, the press helped to shape the public opinion in favor of the patriotic agenda through newspapers and pamphlets. In the Early Republic, Broadsides became popular with the people and, in the Jacksonian Era, a more voters inclusive press, the “penny press”, and the Associated Press, using a new technology known as the telegraph, rose in popularity. But, more events along the way saw to the growth of the news media as we know it today.

Max Weber has studied and presented work that falls under symbolic interactionism, conflict, and functionalism theoretical models. He focused on social behaviors, ideal types, and relationships, all which help shape society and were studied at a macro level. One of his goals was to seek how systems of class and status brought about social change. This social change is caused by stratification and the legitimacy of the existing system. Max Weber argued that social class was three dimensions of stratification, which are class status and power.

Over the course of approximately 4 weeks, the discussion section I was a part of created a political party that would be our entry into the POLS 150 government simulation. Our party had a moderate ideology, which we believed would be best in order to give everyone comfort with things we did. This ended up being the what nearly all of the other parties did with the exception of one or two who chose to be center-left. We agreed upon votes being SMD with proportional representation as it seemed like the best option. We had a president and a prime minister along with a parliament. The president had a term limit of 5 years with 2 consecutive terms and the prime minister along with parliament members had 3 year terms. Our government would be a federal

What’s everyone doing now a day? Do you see people walking around reading a book or talking face to face with another human being? Not exactly, now a day you see people walking around with phones in their hands and worrying about what their social media status looks like. Internet has become a very large influence in everyday life, impacting life from health to political beliefs. With the elections coming up in November we see candidates heading to medias to gain publicity, but non of them have used Ron Pauls’ tactic of starting his campaign online and using the Internet to his benefit.

Power is identical with political practice that authorities take measures to preserve power. (Suseno: 1987: 132) argued that, in maintaining political power, it must uphold the values of morality in politics, one of this issues of morality are worse the politicians. Democratic government is putting people at the highest power and the people are free to choose their leaders through democratic elections. People who someone are trying to destroy democracy resulted in fraud in the application one of them is black campaign to gain power. Black campaign is attacking political opponents by spreading weakness and slander that is not correspond to the fact that used to crush political opponents (Cooper:

Even though Mark Hanna during the election year of President Benjamin Harrison stated the following, “There are two things that are important in politics; the first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is;” this election brought that unacknowledged fact to the forefront of economic politics. In 2000, the Bush campaign solidified the fact that in order to get the message out, the campaign needed cash because the engagement of the electorate had changed. The majority of the electorate was receiving their information from television. Nationwide, the Bush campaign outspent Gore by $9 million, $85.1 million for Bush and $77.1 million for Gore. Fast-forwarding to the Battleground State of Florida, illustrates the fact that money does decide elections. In Florida, combined Bush campaign and Republican Party ad spending was nearly even with Gore and Democratic spending in the Key West Palm Beach, Tampa-St. Petersburg and Orlando media markets. But in the politically conservative markets of (Mobile, AL-) Pensacola and Jacksonville, Bush forces substantially outspent Gore ($820,000-350,000 in Pensacola, $1.1 million-$130,000 in Jacksonville). And, in all-important Miami reaching Miami-Dade and much of Broward counties Bush and the Republicans spent $6 million to Gore and the Democrats’ $3.4 million.

Political campaigns are very significant in American politics and elections. It is the period before the electorate makes political decisions in the form of elections. The attention of the citizens towards politics intensifies as the date of the elections draws near. The salience of voters improves as the election date draws near and could manifest in the form of increased media attention. Political discussions, campaign interest, strength of the intention to vote, and knowledge about the candidates are other manifestations of increased salience of voters. Another indication of improved intensity is the effort put by the candidates and their political parties in the campaigns. Parties increase their efforts in the