Summary: How Was Barack Obama Able To Defeat John Mccain

Election of 2000 gave us a Republican president who won only a minority of popular votes, a 50-50 Senate (which became a 50-49-1 Democratic Senate after Jeffords defection), and a House w/a narrow Republican majority

In November, American voters will be between a rock and a hard place, or you may say between the devil and the deep blue sea, when they come to elect the 44th president. After the worst president in all of American history, the best choice Americans will have for president is either a 72-year-old authoritarian maverick or a black man whose middle name is Hussein. What’s wrong with America? This is the greatest nation in the world, and it became so because of its dedicated founding fathers and its distinguished popular presidents.

The 2008 campaign was rife with racist imagery and attacks, but in fairness this divisiveness was present in both the Democratic and Republican parties. The “Birther Movement,” which claims that President Obama was not born in Hawaii but instead in Kenya, or another muslim state, and frequently claims that the former President is secretly a muslim. This case in many ways is the culmination of the issue facing “The Party Decides,” because John McCain, now the Republican nominee after falling short eight years before, struck down notions that then Senator Obama was foreign born, Muslim, or an Arab.This was not an easy

The 2008 presidential election saw a significant increase in voter turnout among young people, Blacks and Hispanics. This helped with Obama’s political campaign, for he had a strong connection with minority groups and young voters. With the increase in voting for the Democratic party in 2008 by Blacks, Hispanics and young people, Barak Obama became the 44th president of the

1. Regan Doctrine a. This was a political event. b. Regan had come up with a plan, a plan to help politically. With Reaganomics not being the only massive change in the United States, Reagan had saw conflicts and communist threats that had been related to the Cold War. c.

Other main issues were health care, energy and illegal immigrants. Obama stated numerous times during on the campaign trial that all Americans should have health care coverage they can afford. While McCain focused more on health insurance by compelling them to make prices within American’s means and make them feel protected with everyone receiving the same tax benefits. On energy, both candidates opposed drilling in the Alaska refuge but that is where the similarities end. McCain supporters during his rallies would chant, “drill, baby, drill” which gave much insight on his views on energy (Balz, 2009, 206). He supported the expansion of offshore drilling and the increased use of renewable sources such as solar, hydroelectric and wind. In principle, Obama said he didn’t oppose expansion of nuclear power but said it had to be done carefully and cost-effectively. The Republican platform had no

Jimmy Carter was running for reelection, and Americans overall were very unhappy with his leadership. Ronald Reagan emerged as his challenger, a former actor with great public skills and a plan.

When given this assignment I had no clue what topic I might choose. I waited and waited until the recent elections blew up in my face. This past election was a learning experience for me because I just turned 18. This was the first year I could ever vote and a weird election like this occurred. I noticed how many people were actually very disturbed with how Gore won the popular vote but will most likely lose the election only because he couldn't win enough electoral votes in one state.

The late and minimal response to Hurricane Katrina by the government caused public anger. Requests to strengthen the levee system were denied by the government previously. This, along with a delayed order to evacuate and minimal aid led to the decline of Bush’s popularity. The Bush administration always prided itself on the ability to deal with disaster and Hurricane Katrina disproved this. The immigration issue also hurt Bush’s image because during his first campaign, he strived to win the Hispanic vote by downplaying the immigration issue. Once the public started to realize the size of the issue they panicked and called for the closing of the US border. The House eventually approved a bill making it illegal to be an undocumented immigrant and to offer aid to them. Massive demonstrations of immigrants and supporters filled big cities. Bush has lost the immigrant's support and they represent a large portion of the population. The recession was the final straw in Bush’s presidency. The banking system and the housing market collapsed. The stock market also declined record amounts since the Great Depression. As the figurehead of this country, Bush received much of the blame for these problems. The 2008 election brought hope for a new era with president

The election of 1828 marked a major turning point in America political history. A new style of substance became the rule. New techniques of mass mobilization, such as campaign advertising, public speeches, and other kinds of political propaganda became essential to running a successful campaign. Three main factors contributed to the rise of a new kind of politics by the election of 1828, the contentious presidential election of 1824, the expansion of the voting right and the American economic Boom.

Bush and John McCain, but Bush had more recognition because he was popular for his social conservatives. Keeping in mind McCain had won in New Hampshire and Michigan primaries, but Bush won South Carolina and 9 out of the 13 Super Tuesday states. By early march McCain dropped out of the race. On the other hand, Gore had difficultly challenging Senator Bill Bradley over universal health care, gun control, and campaign finance reform, but Gore came out victorious winning all 50 primary states.

What if the America led by Barack Hussein Obama and his administration at no time subsisted? How would the USA appear to be like currently? Naturally, society will not ever know, indubitably. Furthermore, for the GOP who avows Obama has been a catastrophe for their nation, who blaspheme that American culture would be extremely superior if merely John McCain and Sarah Palin were voted in 2008, in any case, one should truly assess that assertion. Principally, it is imperative to comprehend that, McCain is essentially adjacent to Obama on an entirety of concerns than he is with what he cries as RINOs (Republican In Name Only), such as Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, the contemporary beloveds of the Republican Party. All the same, if McCain had stood as America’s commander-in-chief, things would have been considerably dissimilar.

Beginning with a contextualization of America surrounding the 2004 presidential election. This was the first election since the 9-11 attacks and the beginning of the war on terror. Many Americans uneasy, and the state of the nation was unstable. With this fear and instability,

After a gruelling long primary for both major parties, the Republican and Democratic Parties, Hillary Clinton emerged as the favorite-to-win the 2016 election, and several magazines stating before Election Day that Clinton had already won. On November 8th, Newsweek released “125,000 copies” of magazines with the title of “Madam President: Hillary Clinton’s historic journey to the White House” (Greenslade). During the Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton’s campaign had already decided on Tim Kaine to be her Vice-President, and decided whom to pick for her Cabinet. Additionally, Hillary Clinton was endorsed by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and a dozen of other newspapers, and endorsed by hundreds of politicians, celebrities, businessmen, and activists, thus, a great sum of people had confidence that she would win the 2016 Presidential Election (Berke, Harrington). The day before Election Day, pollsters from various organizations, such as New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, and the Huffington Post, predicted Hillary Clinton would win the Presidency of the United States by overwhelming margins, such as 85%, 71%, and 98% respectively. (Katz).

The 2012 presidential election finally reached its conclusion late Tuesday night on November 6th, as the incumbent Barack Obama won a second term in the White House over the challenger Mitt Romney. The election, with its reputation as the most expensive presidential race in history, attracted wide attentions not only from the United States but also from many other countries around the globe (Confessore & McGinty, 2012). The election was also noted with a numerous number of debates and discussions in both online and offline about the two candidates’ policies and pledges on every level. However, while a lot of attention was paid to the candidates’ verbally expressed speeches and pledges, the candidates’