President Obama And The Presidential Election

the 2008 presidential campaign of current president Barack Obama will be measured along with the 2004 presidential campaign of John F. Kerry. In this paper both campaigns will be analyzed on what tactics they used properly, where they were not as effective and what could have been differently. One of the most important factors when trying to run a successful political campaign is properly identifying and mobilizing base voters. According to the readings in the book Presidential Elections: Strategies…

Here In 2008, Barack Obama entered the presidential race with campaign slogans such as “change we can believe in” and “yes we can,” which resonated strongly within the hearts of the general population. Facing deep economic recession, increasing unemployment, and our country’s liberties writhing away, the vast majority of American citizens were yearning for a leader to head us in a better direction. The amount of optimism the American people embraced with Obama’s presidential victory was immense.…

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…

The 2016 presidential race is one of the closest and most interesting elections in our nation’s history. At the end of 2016, Barack Obama will leave the White House and Americans will be faced will big decision of selecting his successor. On the Democratic ticket is former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, along with her Vice Presidential running mate, former Virginia senator, Tim Kaine. On the Republican ticket is Businessman and former reality television host, Donald…

the history of the United States, the 2016 election cycle is the 57th presidential election, yet it could be the strangest of them all. In contrast, the 2012 election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was a relatively tame and mundane election. It was decided by two elements, just as the 2016 election will be decided by. Choice, both by the media and the candidates is one ingredient to determine the outcome of elections. Chance similarly affects election outcomes, though chance deals with environmental…

put things into perspective and understand why and how a certain thing was constructed. When Obama won the 2008 presidential elections he delivered a victory speech which was heavily influenced by the context it was produced in. Obama’s speech was written and presented at around the same time, when the Iraq War and the Global Financial Crisis were going on, additionally, he was also the first black president of the United States and had personal context that was reflected in his speech. Likewise, context…

The 45th President These past few months, America has been in a great state of turmoil due to one of the most controversial presidential elections in history, the outcome of which has left the country divided with the question of whether the surprise presidential elect, Donald Trump, is actually fit to be president. He is one of the only people in this nation’s history that has managed to become the presidential elect without being a career politician or having any background experience in that area…

In 2016, the end of the Obama administration but the beginning of someone else’s, who will it be? In the 2016 presidential race there are seven candidates, five republicans and two democrats but only two will win their respective party nomination. The Republican candidates are Donald Trump, an entrepreneur, Ted Cruz, a United States Senator of Texas, Marco Rubio, a U.S. Senator of Florida, John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, and Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon. On the Democrat side the running candidates…

United States holds a presidential election every four years. The current president, Barack Obama, is unable to seek reelection for third time because the Twenty-second Amendment states a president can only serve two terms. President Obama’s final term ends January 20th, 2017, the same day as the new presidential inauguration. The new president to be inducted will be elected November 8th, 2016, Election Day. The race to be president began shortly after the 2014 presidential election, where candidates…

The 2008 US presidential Election: We select the 2008 US presidential election is because president Obama is the first African American president. Panel B of Table 1 reports results of arbitrage computation for the 2008 US presidential election. As we can observe from Panel B of Table 1, we do not see any positive return both from USD to GBP and from GBP to USD. Only one positive return appears in 3 months’ forward rates for both USD to GBP and GBP to USD. When we look at the average arbitrage opportunity…