District. Her campaign slogan was “Fighting Shirley Chisholm—Un bought and Un bossed.” She won then election and became the first African American woman elected to congress. During her first term in congress, Chisholm hired an all-female staff and spoke out for civil rights, women’s rights, the poor and against the Vietnam War. In 1970 she was elected to a second term. On January 25, 1972, Chisholm announced her candidacy for president. She stood before the cameras and in the beginning
a lawyer and his mother had a distinguished background. Spock ended up attending Yale University in 1921. At Yale, Dr. Spock met the love of his life Jane Cheney. Dr. Spock was in the Paris Olympics in 1924 where he won the gold medal for the United States in rowing crew. Benjamin Spock went to Yale Medical School in hopes of becoming a children’s doctor. After Spock got married he transferred to Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, where he graduated as the top of his class
coverage of the presidential elections in 1972. These elections were between the incumbent Republican, President Richard Nixon and the Senator from South Dakota, George McGovern. The election of 1972 saw McGovern come out of the democratic National Convention over Senators Muskie and Humphrey but only to lose to the incumbent president Richard Nixon. Hunter S. Thompson writes about the Election of 1972 from December 1971, before any primaries, to December 1972 after Nixon has won the election. It is a truthful
The 1972 Presidential Election The election of 1972 was one of the largest landslide victories by a presidential candidate in United States history. President Nixon was reelected to the presidency by beating Senator George McGovern of South Dakota in an impressive victory. The Nixon landslide victory tied FDR’s 60.8 percent of the popular vote in 1936 for the second largest popular vote get in American history. Nixon’s 60.8 percent of the vote compared to McGovern’s 37.6 percent, a difference
GOP presidential nomination has transitioned from a much touted brief flash-in-the-pan scenario, to what can only be characterized as a phenomenal political juggernaut… The billionaire real estate mogul has the entire political establishment on their heels as he continues to defy political gravity and conventional presidential politics. It is a foregone conclusion that the Republican Party political standard as well as the social-conservative brand is mutable going forward. Moreover, election 2016
to look at the relationship between the mass media, specifically television, and presidential elections. This paper will focus on the function of television in presidential elections through three main areas: exit polls, presidential debates, and spots. The focus is on television for three reasons. First, television reaches more voters than any other medium. Second, television attracts the greatest part of presidential campaign budgets. Third, television provides the candidates a good opportunity to
think that many presidential candidates would jump on the fact that they could use the television as publicity, but that wasn't the case. There wouldn’t be another televised presidential debate until 1976, which was 16 years later. The reason why the next televised presidential debate was so far away was because none of the next presidential candidates wanted to take on the media. In 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson was too scared of the media to take on Barry Goldwater. In 1968 and 1972 Nixon refused to
Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. Wallace had been in declining health since being shot in his 1972 presidential campaign by a 21-year-old drifter named Arthur Bremer. Wallace, a Democrat who was a longtime champion of states' rights, dominated his own state for almost a generation. But his wish was to be remembered as a man who might have been president and whose campaigns for that office in 1968, 1972 and 1976 established political trends that have dominated American politics for the last quarter
popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both." -- 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
shape the political landscape. The internet was first used to a limited extent during the 1992 election by the Clinton campaign using email, bulletin boards and discussion groups(Wagner, & Gainous, 2009). “The discussion group 'alt.politics.Clinton' received approximately 800 postings a day at the height of the campaign”(Wagner, & Gainous, 2009). The internet first became important in the 1996 election with each major candidate running for president created their own website(Johnson, Braima, & Sothirajah
During the United States Presidential Elections we are inundated with propaganda that insists we carry out our civic duty and cast a ballot which will help to determine who our nation’s next leader will be. The President of the United States is undoubtedly the most influential individual in our country so, of course, citizens must take the election process very seriously. Yet, how much influence do the voters of this democratic nation truly have on such an important decision? Unfortunately, many
The United States is a country with a two-party structure, which is a political system where people give their votes largely to only two major parties, the Republican and Democrat Party; in which one or the other party can win a majority in the government. Even though the republicans and democrats have many similarities, they tend to be overshadowed by individual party ideas. With so many primary differences between the two parties, finding matters or problems that citizens agree upon can be difficult
The Journey of Donald Trump Billionaire real estate developer, Donald Trump has shown the world that he is one of the most respected and sometimes yet most hated person in the world. With these differing public views, as a person and a successful businessman, he has become one of the most followed persons across the world. Not a day goes by where he has not been googled on social media, and he is known for his tweets. Because he is so popular, multiple biographies and articles could be written
This presidential election has opened my eyes to things that I normally wouldn’t even think about. Let’s be honest politics is not a common discussion amongst college kids whose main goal is to figure out how to keep their C average and not fail a class. This presidential election has taken many minds away from their school work and made them focus on the candidates and their issues. There are four agents of political socialization that have shaped my views on what I would look for in a candidate
Obama’s election win and presidency, we’re all entitled to our own opinions. The election in 2008 and also this year’s election, 8 years later, show exactly what happened in the podcast “The Lady Vanishes” by Malcolm Gladwell. The door was opened for Barack Obama, just as it was for Gillard, and now that his term is ending, and we as a nation chose a new President-Elect, Donald Trump, the door is being slammed shut. I feel that Gladwell would compare the election of Obama and the election of Trump
to choose as the next lawful leader of the country. Among the running presidential candidates, Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte is the best choice. Rodrigo Duterte should win the 2016 Presidential elections because he will end the problems the society is facing. Just like what he did in Davao City, he can also make the whole country progress and make it a better and safe place to live in. Rodrigo Duterte, one of the running presidential candidate, is a Filipino lawyer and politician of Visayan descent. Duterte
estate mogul, he still wants to run for President of the United States. The mogul has popularity among the rich and famous for his business-style leadership and will use this to his advantage to gain votes and supporters. In my opinion, Donald Trump is a confrontational and brazen individual. He seems to treat his candidacy with the same unethical attitude that is used in his line of business. Because Donald Trump wanted to become a Presidential Candidate to shake up America and our way of choosing
Summary: This book, Barack Obama, was an expository. It informs readers about the life of Barack Obama – from his childhood to his adult life as President of the United States. This book talked about how Obama came from a multicultural family with a mom from Kansas and his father from Kenya. It continues to discuss Barack’s elementary and high school years, meeting his wife, and having two daughters. Furthermore, it explains how Obama entered politics and won his first political race in 1996. As
President of the United States; but really, they are voting for a group of electors who have pledged to support a nominee for the President. The Founding Fathers were concerned that presidents would always come from a populous state and wondered whether the public would have the knowledge of various candidates necessary to make a wise selection. They did not have access to technology like the internet or smart phones as we do. In most states, as the result of the election, the state awards all its
Whenever tragedy strikes, people often look for someone with the eloquence and the empathy to reassure them and help them seek some form of comfort. This was especially evident when President Barack Obama was to speak on behalf of the victims and loved ones of said victims on the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre on December 14. Obama’s use of rhetoric in relations to sympathizing with those affected by the tragedy is used as he fervently relates to it on being himself a parent and