With nine candidates in the running, four Republicans and five Democrats the Florida Senate race became an important power grab for not only the party but also the Presidential race. Senate races within years of Presidential elections are always important as they help shift power within the nation. What is most interesting about the race is what the winner did and who the winner is. Marco Rubio rejoining the race for Senate after dropping out of the Presidential race was definitely a shake up. As the Democrats poured support into their bids for Senate, primary behind Patrick Murphy, to ensure the Democratic victory. While one would assume the Democrats would attack Marco Rubio for failing at the Presidential race, especially after not winning Florida, the attacks did not stop Rubio from sailing forward within the Republican spectrum. Rubio, despite not focusing on the Senate race was able to pull off 7% victory over the Democratic runner up. One particular reason Rubio was …show more content…
As mentioned before, Trump and Clinton choice two different paths, the establishment vs the outsider. As the polls showed leading up to election day, Clinton was the projected winner, yet Trump still ended up winning (Polls Florida Presidential Race, RealClearPolitics). On the flipside, the Senate race showed Rubio winning, when in fact he did, at a remarkably close percentage that was predicted by most polls. As far as Florida in the Presidential race, Trump’s victory seems to have come down to the amount of time spent in the state as well as the issues he choice to champion, which helped bring out the working class. For Rubio, it was his promise to work with either winner and his perceived dedication to the state, despite the attacks the Democrats sent forth when the Senator missed making votes within the Senate as he pursued his Presidential
... of Florida, under the Electoral College, electoral votes for the candidate running for office receive a plurality of their popular vote. Therefore, whoever gets the majority of the national electoral votes wins the election. Bush won by a narrow margin of these votes resulting in a mandatory machine recount, which afterwards concluded that Bush’s victory margin, was even narrower. This allowed Al Gore to request a recount in the counties of his choice, so naturally he chose the counties whose votes were historically democratic. The uncertainty continued through the circuit courts all the way to The Florida Supreme Court who ruled in Bush v. Gore that there was not enough time to recount the popular vote ballots without violating the United States constitution. The recounting of the ballots would have violated the Fourteenth Amendments “Equal Protection Clause”.
A party’s platform is its official statement of beliefs and values. These platforms established from the view of a party such as Republic Party and Democrat Party. They have their own platforms to create their views on an issue. However, if the Democrat Party has their notions, Republican Party is not inherently related based on their true definitions. There are some similarities and differences between Republican Party and Democrat Party.
The Republican Primary was a race between Vice President George Bush and Senator Bob Dole because President Reagan had reached his term limit and could not run again. Bush was Reagan's Vice President, so he started the race as the Republican front-runner. Bush's campaign was startled after its loss to Dole in the Iowa Caucus. Bush stepped up the campaigning, uttering his famous line, "Read my lips, no new taxes." Dole soon ran out of steam when Vice President Bush won every state in the Super Tuesday Primaries. Bush's strong victories are attributed to his ability to gain the support of the religious fundamentalists, mainly in the South. Bush's ability to establish a strong Southern base helped him in both the primary and general elections.
The election took place on Nov 7, 2000. Under our electoral college system each state votes for our new president separately, a winner is then declared in each state and is awarded “electoral votes” that is equal to the states number of representatives in the House and Senate. Gore led Bush 266-246 and 270 votes are required for victory. Florida with 25 electoral votes did not have an official winner because the result was inside of the margin of error for machine counting.
State Description My district is Dallas county and currently Texas US senate are John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. This district belongs to district 24. Both having been serving in the benefit of the state. There central role has been to ensure that the district is adequately endowed with common resources where the public can satisfy their various social, economic, cultural, and political need.
It was a sunny day in Florida, and as the votes were counted from the controversial “Butterfly Ballot”, George W. Bush was ahead of Al Gore by a tiny margin of votes. It was then seen that a staggering 1,500 votes went un-counted. As the people of America demanded a recount, the Bush Administration did not want a recount, because they knew they would lose the election. So they took the matter to the courts, and won. Until this day, no full recount has ever been done. It is also very suspicious that the winning candidates brother was governor of Florida.
Did someone say Vice President Al Gore won Florida? How about NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX, and any body else. Now look what's happening.
President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were the two candidates running for president in the 2016 election. They tore every aspect of one another to shreds trying to get elected. It forced America to split and pick sides. Riots, racist or sexist slurs all contributed to the Democrats and the Republicans fighting to have their candidate elected. America was left as a nation divided and has yet to fully heal. President Trump was elected because he won the electoral college, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. Most Americans voted for Clinton but because of the outdated electoral college, Trump won. The electoral college should be abolished because it does not hear the voice of all the voters. The electoral college does not represent the true majority of the public.
In the end, Florida’s 25 electoral votes gave Bush, the republican, 271 total electoral votes. Al Gore, a democrat, ended up with a total of 266 electoral votes. A majority of electoral votes is required to achieve victory in either the President or Vice-President position. (princeton.edu)
The belief prevalent among many establishment Republicans -- most of whom backed Trump somewhat unwillingly -- was that he would abandon or, at the very least, scale back some of his more radical proposals. That a Republican president -- even one as loosely affiliated with the party and its principles as Trump -- would be better than a Hillary Clinton presidency.
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show that Bush would have won Florida either way if there was a recount. However later studies also showed that if the undervotes and overvotes were recounted, Gore would have won Florida but his legal team did not take any action. Sadly after 36 days of recount fighting for the Florida recount of votes, “Gore gave the presidency to Bush on December 13, 2000” (CNN Politics). However, Gore had great chances of reclaiming Florida especially if his legal team took action on the -16,000 votes and the fact that there were 360,000 votes that were not even counted but Gore did not want to fight and instead gave the presidency away.
In the midst of one of the most controversial presidential elections in history, both political parties are struggling to prove that their candidate is the best choice. Clinton and Trump’s disapproval ratings are very low, but one has to ask, is there really a lesser evil to choose from? While Clinton has had her own fair share of past discrepancies, Trump’s track record proves much more troublesome. Donald Trump has proven to be an untrustworthy presidential candidate because of his misogynistic actions, his racial bias, and his corrupt business history.
”Democrats could campaign solely to the coasts and win the White House, and Republicans could do the same in the South and Midwest....the disproportionately great amount of time and money spent on swing states, but this too is beneficial. Because swing state citizens know they have high voter efficacy, they educate themselves on the issues, rather than blindly following a party” (Prabhushankar).
At first, I did not know who I wanted to do my case study on. All I knew was that I wanted to talk about a Hispanic/Latino politician that I did not know so well. I picked Senator Rubio right away because I heard about him in most of my political science classes, but never had that curiosity to do some research about him. I had so much trouble from the beginning to the end of this assignment connecting with Senator Rubio. This made it even harder for me to write about him because I did not feel connected with him at all. I usually do research papers on topics, issues, or people that I feel connected with. Because this was not an opinion-based paper, I tried to just disconnect myself from it and write about the facts instead like we were supposed