Presidential Election Process Analysis

Television has been influential in United States presidential elections since the 1960’s. But just what is this influence, and how has it affected who is elected? Has it made elections fairer and more accessible, or has it moved candidates from pursuing issues to pursuing image? The media only impacts the American Society, especially for the presidential election as it increases the talks in politics and gives the president a higher role to follow. The television race captures more popularity than what a citizen is actually voting for.

Presidential candidates have power over how they’re shown in TV, whereas before TV they didn’t have much choice but to show up and campaign to just be the best leader they can persuade others that they’ll be. Source A explains the immediate contact the media can give, it can penetrate people’s mind and get viewers like never before, but just because that’s available doesn’t mean it’s the best option on how to portray our presidential elections. If anything, maybe television made the viewers feel closer a few decades ago, but now it’s nearly a barrier we can’t get past, so instead the television‘s impact on showing presidential elections has given the elections a negative impact. No one wants to watch short answered arguments where quality of imagine does better than the impact of your real words and actions. All the TV has done is go for someone’s image, quick answers, and the unfocused aspect of what truly matters, if your president is who will make your world a better place or

The presidential election is the biggest and most important election held in the United States. In fact in the Presidential election of 2012, approximately 57.5% of the registered voting population exercised their voting rights, while the 2014 congressional election turnout rate of 41.9 percent was its lowest turnout rate since 1978. However, what these citizens who vote in the Presidential election may or may not know is that their votes do not directly influence who is chosen as president. What it does count toward is the number of Electoral College votes that a candidate receives, which would ultimately secure their presidency. The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors, whom each candidate needs at least 270 of their votes to win

More and more people are getting their news from social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Tumbler and many more, and candidates are using this to their advantage. This election is probably one of the first were candidates have actually used social media sites as their direct communication line to potential voters. Social media today had gone from gossip and family pictures to a location for political strategy. Thanks largely to trumps regular social media first declarations and its actually working particularly with the younger voters. A study released last year from the Pew Research Center that Marissa Lang cited showed that “Among 18- to 29-year-olds, nearly two-thirds said social media is the most helpful means of learning new things about politics.” (Lang, 2016). Even if the candidate isn’t the one posting the video or message in the end it will still end up on social media. For example, Trump had announced his plan to ban all Muslims from entering the united states in South Carolina not on social media however it found its way there and spread like wild fire. This sent those who were outraged to respond in disgust and those who encouraged it to share it so that their friends could see and so on and so on. Even if those who shared it did it to

The Electoral College consists of elected representatives (electors) that vote for the president and vice president of the United States. Every state has a number of presidential electors that meet in their respective state capitals in December following popular presidential election. The number of presidential electors each state gets depends on the state’s population. The number of electors is exactly the same as the total number of the state’s senators, which is based on population, plus the number of its representatives in congress (Bromwich, 2016). California has the most electoral votes (55) and nine states have the minimum of three votes (Distribution, 2016).

The presidential election of 2000 stands at best as a paradox, at worst as a scandal, of American democracy. Democrat Albert Gore won the most votes, a half million more than his Republican opponent George W. Bush, but lost the presidency in the electoral college by a count of 271-267. Even this count was suspect, dependent on the tally in Florida, where many minority voters were denied the vote, ballots were confusing, and recounts were mishandled and manipulated. The choice of their leader came not from the citizens of the nation, but from lawyers battling for five weeks. The final decision was made not by 105 million voters, but by a 5-4 majority of the unelected U.S. Supreme Court, issuing a tainted and partisan verdict.

WHO: is involved in the Electoral College process and what is their role? (e.g. voters, candidates, electors, state official(s), members of our federal government)?

Democrat Ralph Northam's victory in the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election means the newly elected governor will most likely continue to advocate for increased access to Medicaid, which will help ensure that the poor will have more health care coverage. Northam is also a doctor, and has used his experience in the medical industry to inform his political views on health care. He believes that increased coverage through government programs such as Medicaid can help ensure that people do not face economic disadvantages when they become ill. Without government assistance, many poor families cannot afford to get sick, due to the high costs of medical care.

Mass communication became the primary tool of American’s and was utilized to better understand political issues and familiarize themselves with the personal characteristics of presidential candidates. Television was used, in particular, for campaigning, speeches, and governing; television became the primary medium of all communication in American politics. Presidential communication to the public has evolved from face-to-face speechmaking to impersonal television broadcasts, and Ronald Reagan became the primetime president through the carefully orchestrated use of the media. Reagan conformed to the use of television to gain access to the general public.

Radio, and Television was a big game changer in the politic world. politicians could now speak to many people at once, and send their message trying to get you to support them and their mission. When television started putting the debates on live T.V politicians had to worry about how they presented themselves on television as opposed to just being face to face because of the impression that could make. Also still having to plan a good speech and say the right things, but now they had to worry about whether they looked good on television, too.

The invention of the television has had an impact on all aspects of American's lives. It has affected how we work, interact with others, and our foreign relations. One part of American society that it has especially affected is presidential elections. Television has impacted who is elected and why they were elected. Since the 1960's television has served as a link between the American public and presidential elections that allows the candidate to appear more human and accountable for their actions; consequently this has made television a positive influence on presidential elections. But it has also had a negative affect on elections, making presidential candidates seem like celebrities at times and making it easier to publicize mistakes

Yes there are problems with the presidential nominating system. Each party pretty much picks the candidates it thinks the American people will vote for. The problem with that is some candidates don’t get a shot at running and the candidates who are selected might not ultimately be right for the general public but the elites like them. An advantage to this is that there are less or a narrowed down list of people to vote for so that the general public does not have a ton of people to be confused by. The other fault in this is that people can only vote for candidates in there party during primarys and they must be registered to vote as either republican or democrat. So even if the American people select a candidate to go for the convention we

The introduction to electoral primaries widened my perspective of the presidential elections. I learned the different kinds primary procedures utilized across the country. To promote voter participation, an open primary is used. Caucus methods being one version of electoral primary, however, is among the least used in the US.

As of now, in twenty first century, broadcasting has been very popular and it only seems to give birth to new forms of idea that can be compressed into what the media has to portray. Media, even in a history not so far away from our past have engendered the idea of setting powerful people to defend why they should be elected as president. Broadcasting, even in our not-so-long ago history has took the initiative to display one man sitting in office to half the nation “The advent of television in the late 1940’s gave rise to the belief that a new era was opening in public communication...its wide geographic distribution and impact, provides a new, direct, and sensitive link between Washington and the people” (Source A). In the source showcased above, we as the peoples of

The effects of mass media and social media have changed the way people have experienced presidential campaigns in many ways. With the development of new technologies through the last hundred years many different ways of experiencing the campaigns have taken place. Newspapers, radio, television, internet and social media websites have changed the ways we all have experienced elections.