United States presidential election, 1996

James Madison ("Focus" 1) The United States has strived to be a true democracy, a place in which the citizens are free to govern themselves, since its inception. For a democracy to work, the citizens must remain knowledgeable and elections must remain unbiased. Our current system of electing presidents fails in both of these regards: citizens are only given two choices that stand any chance of winning and their decisions between those two candidates are

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

understand it. Therefore, this paper will go in depth as to how the voting process works in the United States, with a main focus on the Electoral College.  I will start by talking about the background, what challenges and problems it was trying to solve, how it came to be and who came up with such idea. Secondly, I would talk about the advantages the Electoral College possesses, such as it keeps small states as viable participants, it maintains division of power and how it’s beneficial to the candidates

The reason it’s bad to be the next Ralph Nader is because lot of people make the (partly true) accusation that Ralph Nader cost then, Vice President Al Gore the 2000 Presidential Election. But in my opinion that isn’t the whole story. Let me start with the candidate Al Gore. Gore made some crucial mistakes that cost him the election in 2000. One of the biggest mistakes then Vice President Gore made was to distance himself from the White House and then say that he was angry at the sitting President

Introduction Barack Obama, The 44th President of The United States Of America, Throughout the years, United States Presidency we saw a lot of different Presidents who sometimes achieved some great things in life and beat the odds in life. Barack was not the First minority to be selected for Presidency. His Campaign was bigger than Hillary Clinton’s, he Prevailed a problem in the Economic Problems, Health Care, so much more he has Accomplished so much in this Country. In the end all of his hard

for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary. On Monday, The 39th US President Carter and Sanders 39th US President were engaged in a discussion over politics and human rights at the Carter Center on Human Rights in downtown Atlanta. Sanders delivered a keynote speech in which he considered a building bottom-up Democrat party and boosting voter turnout in the United States to "revitalize American democracy" Carter's endorsement of Sanders "Can y'all

The Presidential Election Day falls on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November every four years in the United States. However, when Election Day is over the people are not who have done the electing. In the United States, citizens elect the president not by a popular vote but through the Electoral College. The Electoral College is comprised of five hundred fifty-three electors. There is one elector for every state senator and every member of the House of Representatives per state as well

example. HIs mother Ann Dunham, was born in Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr, was born in Kenya. He was chose for a special program to attend a college in The United States. He studied in the University of Hawaii, where they met. They got married in 1961 and had Barack in that same year. Many years later, in 2008 he would be elected as the United State’s first African-American president. After so many years, as a nation we took a step forward by electing our first black president, not only for one term

J. Clinton only 30 years ago. After a successful college career at an elite university Governor Clinton decided make the move home to his birth state of Arkansas. Hillary Rodham begrudgingly followed along with fierce independence and a law degree. Rodham maintained a job at the university of Arkansas after her husband’s loss in a congressional election, and practiced law through court appointments. Eventually her husband would successfully run and become Arkansas’s Attorney General, then Governor

Americans recognize John Edwards as the second coming of Jimmy Carter; the soft-spoken Democratic Senator from the south. They know him as the running mate of John Kerry in his 2004 Presidential campaign. But before the North Carolina Senator entertained aspirations of President or Vice-President of the United States, John Edwards made a name for himself as a successful trial lawyer, a strong husband and father, and charismatic politician. Born in Seneca, South Carolina on June 10th 1953, Johnny