Presidential Elections Essay

Hope. That is what President Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign was all about. Hope. He served his four years with some victories, but also some losses, but he wasn’t done. He wasn’t ready to give up on America, on hope. On April 4th, 2011 President Barack Obama officially announced his reelection campaign for the 2012 election to be President of the United States again. From compelling campaign goals and ideology to effective campaign strategies, President Obama was in it to win it straight

‘just’, specifically when looking at the 2016 Presidential Election. Plato values the idea of specialization within both the city and the soul, yet both American society and one of the main party’s candidates defy this. Justice (in both forms) stems from the idea of four virtues – wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. However, it is debatable if one could even find those values within both the American political system today and the Presidential candidates. The role of education is also important

things, this is how the 2017 presidential election changed my view on this country, and my view on the world in general. In 2012, the presidential election was between the current president at the time, Barack Obama, and his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. This part of my life seemed like a blur, as I can not recall lots of memories from that time period. Aside from that, one thing was prominent from that point in time. While watching the television the night of the election, I didn't pay close attention

Americans were enduring trying times before the 1980 presidential election. Fifty -two American soldiers had been taken hostage in Iran, and America was entering a period of stagflation (Economy in the Reagan Era). Tensions ran high among Americans, and the upcoming presidential election between incumbent Jimmy Carter and retired actor Ronald Reagan was going to be the first step in solving these issues. But who to choose? Retired Governor of California Reagan knew that if he was to have any

Noble Lie America lies in the wake of the impending presidential election, which has been shrouded in controversy from its infancy. FBI investigations, leaked emails, private recordings, rape allegations, and indubitable untruths have pledged both front-runners. Despite the foul taste left in the mouth of many Americans by Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, they have come out victorious in their campaign to represent their respective party as the nominee for president. While it was once widely believe

“Like, baby, baby, baby, oh I thought a Mexican wall would be fine, fine.” As presidential elections rapidly approaching, media’s coverage of the political candidates has multiplied in the television news, radio, and magazines. Comically, Media’s craze over Donald Trump is portrayed in many illustrations and cartoons to visually see the political disturbances between the media and the republican party. Daryl Cagle, a political cartoonist, argues in his visual address, “ Trump The Media and Republicans”

Russia’s Interference In the 2016 American presidential election, Russia hacked into the voting system, and skewed the votes in favor of Donald Trump. In 2013 there were records of President Trump talking about how he has started to gain ties with people that were high up in the Russian government.“Well I’ve done a lot of business with the Russians. They’re smart and they’re tough.”(Horwitz, 2017) this was stated in an interview with David Letterman. And for a while President Trump, over tweets

years. On this day, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. He won over Hillary Clinton, a fact that has angered several people, including Anna March. Anna March, author of the article “Dreams of My Mother”, tells her story of the election and the events leading up to it. She uses critical approaches to persuade her audience. In the article, “Dreams of My Mother”, Anna March addresses a controversial issue and uses words to indicate setting and her tone to bring out emotion in her

set up laws to take guns away. So the next thing America will do is take the right to own a pen away. They do realize that if they do that the president will not be able to sign bills to pass laws. Why do people like Ted Cruz, a presidential candidate for the 2016 election, think that we should have them? As Americans we have the right to own guns under the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment to the Constitution states, "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State

With the level of scandal and conspiracy surrounding our current presidential election, it may seem difficult to imagine an election where the candidates were barely divisive, and a photo of a presidential nominee skinny dipping in the Hudson River was not enough to cause scandal, or even interest in a major-party candidate. However, if we rewind the clock just 112 years to the election of 1904, we find a Cortland County native running as the Democratic Party candidate that no one could say anything