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Bishnu Nyoupane Professor Sharifian Government 2306 12th April 2018 STRATEGIZING ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN TEXAS The aim of this paper is to strategize the election campaign in the next Texas election. There are brief discussions on the cost that has been spent in the earlier election campaigns in Texas by the two dominant parties-The Republican and the Democrats, strategies to raise money for the campaign, and designing the campaign logo and slogan. I have identified the interest groups in relation to the campaign, the support and opposition that I am going to receive and the target group.
Cost to run the office According to the March 2017 report, there is no fixed amount that a potential electoral candidate needs to spend to win the
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election. The amount of investment on the election campaign is contingent on three variables. The first variable is the amount of fundraising by each of the candidates, secondly the number of votes secured by a candidate and thirdly, the number of votes garnered by a candidate. It was found that the amount of spent by a candidate has no bearing on the chance of their winning an election. An illustration of this the electoral race was between the US representative Will Hurd’s re-election in their rivalry against Pete Gallego. 1 Hurd won the election by 3,000 votes (Tribune, The. 2 The Texas Tribune). Will Hurd of the Republican Party spent $3, 197, 957.56, Kenneth Sheets of the Republican Party spent $548,844.71 and secured 109, 816 votes and won 27,009 votes and, Pete Gallego of the Democratic Party spent $1,670,051.79 amount and secured 106, 049 votes (Essig, Bhandari and McCullough). 3 How to raise money? In the light of the election in Texas, it was found that political power is followed by political money. Around 67 USD was collected for the state-level campaigns throughout the beginning of 2017 (Root). The donations were made through both non-judicial and judicial procedures (Top Texas fundraisers were also some of the biggest losers in the 2018 primary). Therefore, it can be argued that donations for the election campaign can be raised through appealing to the interested supporters through-door-to-door campaign and also approaching the big corporate houses and explain them about the party manifesto and the issues that the party aims to address. Interest groups My election campaign will address the issue of reproductive rights of women.
It will empower non-willing mothers to choose whether they want to abort the child or not. Secondly, it will render women the power to decide what they want to do with their body. For this campaign, I expect support from the women’s rights groups, socially liberal and Texas Medical Association (The Voter's Self Defense System). I expect opposition from the conservatives, religious groups, Marriage, Family and Children, socially conservative. The Women’s Rights Group and the Social liberals will support my campaign as it empowers women and recognizes their individual autonomy. The Texas Medical Association will support, as this provision will legitimize safe and healthy abortion. The above-mentioned groups will oppose my campaign because it is against their ideology. These groups believe in family values and individuals cannot take that life away as it is gifted by …show more content…
God. My slogan would be ‘Women Rights are Human Rights’. I will choose the Texas Tribune for the endorsement of my campaign as it would reach to a wider audience and enable me to articulate my party’s stand on the election campaign and the vision we have for the future. For my campaign, I would request Meryl Streep to endorse my cause. She is a world-renowned celebrity and in addition, she has been vocal about her stand on gender rights. Given the issue that I plan to address, my target group would be men and women who are apart of educational institutions, women’s rights groups working on health and rights of women’s bodies, women who have faced stigma because of abortion, NGOs and think tanks, and civil rights groups (White, et al). Therefore, I feel that the present election campaign may receive opposition from various interest groups but it also likely to appeal to my desired target group.
3 References Chris Essig, Aditi Bhandari and Jolie McCullough. 2 "Here’s how much Texas candidates spent per vote in the November elections" The Texas Tribune, 2018. Online. Internet. 2 Apr. 2018. Available: 4 https://www.texastribune.org/2017/03/01/heres-how-much-texas-candidates-spent-vote-general-election/.
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The people of Texas are diverse and carry their “big can-do attitudes and accents” (Pearson); making Texas a bigger than life state. The political culture of Texas is impacted by two different subgroups of individualistic and traditionalistic characteristics. The combination of traditionalism and individualism has had a huge impact on the state and Texas’ seven different constitutions. The shift in power between 1827 and 1876 has impacted the political diversity Texas has today. Looking at the specifics of these subcultures, the traditionalists believe government should benefit the wealthy and powerful, and that government services must be limited.
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Nothing that has occurred in the last several years in Texas has been quite as controversial as the new and increased usage of toll roads for new road construction. We have heard many statements that the toll roads are being built as a money-making system for the state (and the Department of Transportation). Statements have also been made to the effect that the state is "selling" the state, one length of roadway at a time; that the current roads could be maintained by the state, with current state funding levels. The main complaint is that the roads of Texas have always been free, and should continue to be free. But are these arguments correct?
In the youth of Texas, the Democratic Party enjoyed electoral dominance on all levels of state government and in the representation in the national government. Democratic rule was dominated by a conservative white political elite that strongly promoted economic development, but that resisted change either in race relations or social programs for the poor ("Texas Politics," 2009). Republicans were not completely absent during this period, but their electoral victories were few and limited in scope ("Texas Politics," 2009). In every election after 1980, however, the Republican strength grew into the now dominant rule that currently reigns in Texas. Since the 1990’s, the Republican Party, despite the attempts of others, has had a stronghold on the state government. With that being said, the Republican Party has dominated the overall elections.
The Texas government is an unusually complex institution that is composed of many different levels. Everyone asks, with a constitution like the one Texas has, can people really trust the government? The main reasons why people might not be trusting of the government are that they might believe that the officials take advantage of their power, or want to try to control them. The Texas legislature is also subject to checks and balances in the three branch system. For example, the governor 's power to veto bills, which is rarely overridden, and to call special sessions; while the court has the power of judicial review. In Texas, the Constitution divides the powers
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Opportunities: The fact that Texas has consistently gone Republican gave Ted Cruz a fairly high advantage on the polls.
The government of the state of Texas is a difficult and complicated institution that is composed of many different levels. The question comes in to everyone's mind at one time or another whether or not to trust the government. It could be that people believe that the officials will take advantage of their power, or simply people don't like the idea of being controlled by someone who is not a family member or friend. To avoid this centralized power, the government is divided into stages and this is a reasonable ground for trusting the government. Government runs this state and it does deserve to be trusted.
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The main purpose of this article is to examine the correlation between how often a politician’s name appears on social media and the subsequent electoral results. The article looks at 542,969 tweets mentioning electoral candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2010 and 2012 elections, and compares this data to the candidates’ electoral performance.
With so many women choosing to have abortions, it would be expected that it would not be so greatly frowned up, yet society is still having problems with its acceptance. Every woman has the fundamental right to decide for herself, free from government interference, whether or not to have an abortion. Today, more than ever, American families do not want the government to trample on their right to privacy by mandating how they must decide on the most intimate, personal matters. That is why, even though Americans may differ on what circumstances for terminating a crisis pregnancy are consistent with their own personal moral views, on the fundamental question of who should make this personal decision, the majority of Americans agree that each woman must have the right to make this private choice for herself. Anti-choice proposals to ban abortions for “sex-selection” or “birth-control” are smokescreens designed to shift the focus of the debate away from this issue and trivialize the seriousness with which millions of women make this highly personal decision. Any government restriction on the reasons for which women may obtain legal abortions violates the core of this right and could force all women to publicly justify their reasons for seeking abortion.
Through every choice in life, there is a decision that must follow. Abortion is a woman’s individual choice; therefore, must be a legal part in todays society. Individual rights have an outstanding role in the controversial topic, on whether abortion should become legal in the United States . The individual rights for abortion show rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. As well, women should be able to have the choice to choose to have an abortion for several important reasons. The right to make these decisions should lie in the hands of the “mother” to make decisions concerning their own to make decisions concerning their own bodies. In addition, women should be given the choice to have an abortion if they are too young and unable to take care their child financially or emotionally. Additionally, the right to have an abortion is if the pregnancy negatively affects the woman's or the baby's health. Without abortions as a choice for the “mother” to resort to while she is going through hardship on deciding whether to keep the baby or not, the endless possibilities could negatively influence the mother to put her and the baby in a dangerous positions.