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…
able to pull off this win was by position himself to work with either presidential candidate, citing his duty to the people no matter who wins (Mazzei). The other factor that helped Rubio comes in strong was the support he received from the normally Democratic areas around Miami. This coupled with being the incumbent and keeping himself relevant in the Presidential race helped ensure his victory as it will be more analyzed under his campaign. Looking at the data provided by Real Clear Politics, almost every poll leading up to the end of the Senate race showed Rubio up by four to eight points, not far from what really happened (Polls Florida Senate Race, RealClearPolitics). 2 Moving from the primaries into the General election brought forth, at least for the presidential races, a stark difference in theme and message.
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
run. 3 With primaries over the focus for each campaign came to battleground states. According to Emily Schultheis’s October 27, 2016 article for CBS, Trump and his vice president nominee had spent a total of 19+ days within the Sunshine state; Clinton’s campaign spent 18+ (Schultheis). The difference, as Schultheis’s article points out, comes from who was actually at these campaign rallies. Out of Trump’s camp, Donald Trump made up fifteen plus of his campaign rallies, while Clinton only made up eight. As mentioned earlier, Trump stated that Florida was his second home. By having a home in Florida, with an already well-known establishment of golf course, Trump was able to visit the state with the ease and comfort that comes with visiting places he had already frequented so much. What is interesting about this, is the fact that the majority of visits Trump made were actually to the I4 corridor. As this course’s book highlights, and as Adam Smith's article within the Tampa Bay Times states, the I4 corridor is an important area within the battleground state. Both Trump and Clinton’s campaigns focused this area. But only one candidate, Trump hammered home the point of Florida being a second home by appearing in person more often. Moving forward by looking at the turnout, this is something to keep in mind. With this said, the Clinton campaign’s rallies in Florida were not without their own triumphs. As shown within the data, something that will be analysed more in depth later, is the fact that there were marginal more registered Democrats than Republicans (Smith), Clinton was able to tap into this support, however her campaign focused too much on it. As Adam C Smith of the Tampa Bay Times points out in his article covering the conclusion of the election, Trump won by only 1.2%, just above a 100,000 votes (Smith). These votes, as shown, mostly came from the swing counties Trump visited as will be discussed in more detail later. The point is this, while Clinton did a good job rallying their base, they lost bernie Sanders supports and chose to focus too much on the polls rather than really campaigning. Furthermore, was the devastating Clinton E-mail scandal that followed the candidate all throughout the campaign, even being reinvigorated just days before the election by the FBI head. Trump’s own campaign had its share of speed bumps but what set the two candidates apart was how they dealt with the issues. Clinton when faced with tough questions would often redirect or ignore, while Trump would give an answer that all too often provoked the media. The bad blood with most media outlets often lead Trump to make more appearance to get “his message” out. Again, coming back to the amount of effort each spent showing their face on the campaign trail. 4 Most polls near the end of the election still showed Trump behind, yet as the election day drew closer Clinton began to look weak with dizzy spells and various missed opportunities to really rally her support. As far as Florida, the swing state going to Trump, it came down to the various rallies and time spent the candidate gave to the SunShine state. While neither candidate got full support from their party, at least Trump looked to bring in different Republican voters.
... 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.
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.
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.
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.
The majority opinion in this case was on the side of Bush. It was a unimaginably close election, as the final vote went down to the last and final state, Florida. The outcome of Florida's vote recount resulted in a dramatic squeeze on the results. Out of 6 million total votes that resulted from the Florida recount, only 327 votes separated the two presidential candidates (pbs.org). By the time of the final decision, over a month had passed since the original votes were cast (phschools.com).
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.
their vote, and a hole is punched into a ballot where the space for the
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.
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.
”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