President Obama Won The 2008 Presidential Election

The impact of one single speech can essentially affect the entire world. Granted, there are different degrees of impact felt: those present at the speech, those who watched/heard the actual speech from somewhere else, those who heard some things about it from someone else, and so on and so forth. As the speaker’s message experiences a sort of ripple affect, it calms and becomes less and less dynamic. The main point, or gist, of the speech endures but potentially valuable details; those pertaining to the speaker himself, the location, the timing, current social, political, and economic climates, flake off. Understanding the context

The 1980 presidential election of the United States featured three primary candidates, Republican Ronald Reagan, Democrat Jimmy Carter and liberal Republican John Anderson. Ronald Reagan was the governor of California before he decided to run for the presidency. John Anderson was a representative in Illinois and Carter was the incumbent. The lengthy Iran hostage crisis sharpened public opinions by the beginning of the election season. In the 1970s, the United States were experiencing a straining episode of low economic growth, high price increases and interest rates and an irregular energy crisis. The sense of discomfort in both domestic and foreign affairs in the nation were heading downward, this added to the downward spiral that was already going on. Between Carter, Anderson and Reagan, the general election campaign of the 1980s seemed more concerned with shadowboxing around political issues rather than a serious discussion of the issues that concerned voters.

45) Context- The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.

The rhetorical situation refers to “a situation in which people’s understanding can be changed through messages.” (Zarefsky, 12). The rhetorical situation analysis consists of four elements: audience, occasion, speaker and speech, each assessing the quality of speech. In this essay, I will analyze the rhetorical situation of the historical speech “The Challenger Address” delivered by the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

Yes, there were meanings derived from data described. An example of this is the disclosure of gendered circumstances, emotions and modes of expression that might put women at risk of being over diagnosed with depression.

The election of 1952 against Dwight D Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were running for president. Dwight D eisenhower had won the vote for president of the United states.Eisenhower had won the electoral with an 83.24% electoral vote count. Which, won with an electoral vote of 442 votes. Eisenhower had also won the popular vote with a percent of 55.18% vote count. With the vote of 33,778, 963 votes.Opposed to Stevenson losing the electoral vote with an 16.76% electoral vote count. With 89 votes. And Stevenson ended up with a 44.33% count. Or 27,314,992 votes.

George .W. Bush and Barrack Obama two of America’s great presidents, both filled with their individual ambitions and charisma. These prominent presidents have ruled the most powerful country in the world using their different strategies and policies. George Bush, a republican was the 43rd president of America had two terms in power (cite). On the other hand Barrack Obama the first black president of America and a democrat was his successor. He is known for his charisma. Notwithstanding, their various good leadership skills and the criticisms, Obama has been a better and more successful president United States than George Bush. Despite the fact that his presidency being criticized for being a failure he has done a good job so far. Obama is showing promise in his policies trying fix the problems that were created by past American presidents in terms of handling the domestic and foreign policies.

The 2004 and 2012 Presidential Elections demonstrated the voter’s commitment to incumbent Presidents during tough times and major crises. In 2004, voters were interested in foreign policy, terrorism and the current wars. In 2012 the national focus was the economy, following the financial crisis that began in 2008. Consequently, the challenging nominees had backgrounds appropriate for the issues, but had the inability to stand out as a better option. Perhaps because, typically incumbents have the advantage of better name recognition, experience and their agenda has had longer time to be defined.

The results of both the 2004 and 2012 Presidential elections were the same as both incumbents were able to capitalize on the voters being comfortable with them. Additional, since both incumbents had access to national assets, four years of on the job training, and “insider information” they were able to speak in-depth on a wide range of issues both foreign and domestic. In 2004, the largest and most important issue to the nation was the war in Iraqi and in 2012 it was the nation’s economy. Given the incumbents access to firsthand information on the issues at large, they were able to weaken their opponents in the nation’s eyes by dismantling the candidate’s strategies on the issues. History has shown that nations trend to focus more on domestic

Context: The parts of a discourse or writing which precede or follow and are directly connected with,a given passage or word. Article: piece of writing on a specific topic

Incumbent Barack Obama battled it out against Republican Mitt Romney. Their campaign styles, reputation, and platforms were the ultimatum of the outcome of the general election. The economic conditions both in 2012 and leading up to that year were at devastatingly low points, where unemployment rate was a boggling 10%, highest it had been since the 1982 recession. Although, Romney came from a political family it unfortunately wasn’t enough to sway the voters’ opinions causing him to lose the presidential election. Our nation was dealing with a plethora of significant issues during this time and the citizens wanted a president who could promise to resolve those conflicts. Obama, being a returning president allowed voters to put their trust in

On April 30 1960, James Rowe, a Washington Lawyer, gave $10,000 the campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey (Peters, P. 62). Rowe funded Humphrey’s campaign in hopes that Humphrey would defeat John F. Kennedy. Moreover, Rowe thought that this would lead to Johnson’s path of the presidency (Peters, P. 62) However; it was too late because Kennedy was dominating the presidential nominations. Instead, Johnson was relying on his running mate Humphrey to win the Democratic Convention. Ultimately, Johnson hoped that Humphrey would choose him to be his vice president if Humphrey won the Democratic Convention. Johnson believed that he was an excellent candidate because of his impressive record as Senate majority leader and his friendship with powerful Democratic senators (Peters, P. 62).

For many political scientists and historians, Nineteen Forty-eight stands as a significant year in American politics. This is due primarily to the 1948 Presidential Election which set the stage for future elections in terms of several key events, components and ultimately, outcomes. It was a presidential election which immediately followed a major war so the voter’s attention and priorities were naturally shifting from national defense issues to domestic issues such as jobs, the economy and various social expectations. With the popularity of radio, the emergence of television, and newspapers the media started to play a larger role and exert a greater influence into the election process. This was also the first election where a third-party

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.