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Presidential Elections Case Study

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After a soundly defeat in the Colorado convention over the weekend, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump blasted Colorado's GOP leaders for running a "rigged, disgusting, dirty system." "We found out in Colorado this is not a democracy like we’re supposed to have," Trump said at Albany's Times Union Center in downtown Albany. "The system, folks, is rigged. It’s a rigged, disgusting, dirty system." Trump's main rival, Senator Ted Cruz swept all 34 delegates in Colorado over a complex process where delegates were picked on both congressional and statewide level that lasted for over several days. The Rocky Mountain state didn't have a presidential primary or caucus, which took Colorado completely off the primary map. In late August, party officials decided to cancel the traditional presidential voting to avoid binding its delegates to a candidate that may not survive until the Convention in July. The decision of selecting delegates through a caucus process sparked outrage where thousands of Republican voters were negated to weigh in on their choice of presidential contenders, leaving the state party members to be the kingmakers. …show more content…

It wasn't until last week when Cruz had won the first six of the 37 delegates that Trump hired Patrick Davis to oversee the organization of national delegate candidates. When it came time to choosing the final slate of convention delegates, Trump's campaign ballot list of preferred delegates was riddled with errors and misspellings, costing the GOP front-runner chances of winning any delegates. At the end, Trump managed to win only seven alternative

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Simultaneously, the US Supreme Court ruled that states had to have a clear procedure for independent presidential candidates to appear on a ballot. Senator McCarthy took advantage of this new ruling and announced his run for presidency, suing Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the US Supreme Court’s ruling. Subsequently, Oklahoma changed the law from requiring five percent to three percent of the last presidential vote in 1977, although this did very little to ease the ability of minor parties to appear on the

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Solution to Gerrymandering: There have been a few attempts and proposals intending to fix the partisan gerrymandering issue. One of the implemented methods to reduce gerrymandering is by appointing an independent commission that conducts the redrawing of districts (Gerken). Some of these commissions are nonpartisan and others are bipartisan. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are twenty-one states that have established these commissions to draw the electoral districts (2015).

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Problems faced in the 1796 and 1800 presidential elections involving the original procedure electing the the president and vice president prompted the creation and passing of the Twelfth Amendment, which requires electors of the electoral college to cast one vote for president and one for vice president. Prior to the amendment’s passage, the electors were unable to indicate which of their two votes was for the president and which was for vice president. Electors did not even necessarily have to cast two votes. It was also not permitted for an elector to vote for two people that came from the same state as that elector. This rule was designed so that electors would not purposefully vote for candidates simply because they were

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Cincinnati voting controversy The first and largest voting scam that baseball had every seen happened in 1957, only a decade after fan voting had been put in place. It was set to be the 24th All-Star Game that Major League Baseball between the American League and National League all stars. Fans of the Cincinnati Reds stuffed the ballot boxes with members of their team, to the point that seven members of the team got the most votes. It showed how weak the selection system was at that time, and would lead to changes being made that would better elect players into playing on the all star team. How it Started

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The turmoil, upheaval, and controversy of the 2016 Trump election is a significant current event of the modern world, but this landslide election is not the first in America’s history to raise such conflicting opinions. The Revolution of 1800 was another shift in political history that impacted not only the candidates, but majority of the public. The defeat of John Adams to Vice President Thomas Jefferson led to the rise of the Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party. Often in politics, opposing views, scandals, and negative publicity plays a role in the election process, due to this, in both the 2016 election and 1800 election negative criticism from both parties was evident. The 1800 and 2016 elections

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The presidential election of 1800 presented strong candidates on both side, each uniquely qualified for the position and prepared to lead the United States in very different ways. The Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans both possessed strong campaigns with good arguments to sway voters to their side, however, almost every positive campaigning tactic meant to promote their party’s candidate was met with slandering of some kind from the other side. The dilemma of every voter at the time was to choose between a strong government to protect them, or choose to protect themselves. This was the dilemma of Timothy Tisdale. As said by Joanne Freeman, author of a published article on the election, “The presidential election of 1800 was an angry,

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1. As many of us know, union political action takes four basic forms: (1) financial support to candidates favoring union positions, (2) volunteer work by union members in campaigns, (3) endorsement of candidates and get-out-the-vote efforts, (4) and lobbying. All of the above forms are important in our cause but what I believe I should be assigned to lead the endorsement of candidates and get-out-the-vote efforts. Unions have put in a substantially increased amount of volunteer and financial resources since 1995.

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In 2016, the presidential election was brutal: the two candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spoke negatively about each other every chance they got and it still remains undetermined whether or not one or both candidates bribed and cheated their way to the top of their party. Additionally, the battle to decide the Democratic party’s nominee was tight, as Bernie Sanders was extremely popular with the young, liberal voters. In a way, 2016’s election bears many similarities to the Election of 1800. They both began with three potential winners: a popular upstart who was attempting to make his presidential debut, an occasionally-unconstitutional lawyer who had had already had an influential voice in the executive branch, and a racist, loud-mouthed,

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“Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election” was the title of the documentary film co-written by Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler mentioned about the 2000 Presidential Election and the struggle in ballots in Florida. The Presidential Election in 2000 was one of the worst presidential elections in America History due to the weakness of the Electoral College system. The presidential race was George W. Bush as a Republican candidate in Texas against the Democratic candidate was Al Gore in Tennessee. The film revealed the broken in the voting organization and the voter’s right of African-American people. In addition, a film also examined the recount in some counties in Florida due to the problems with electronic voting machines.

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Republican Presidential nominee hopeful Donald Trump made the rounds of the Sunday morning political shows this week, bringing his patented brand of mud-slinging, political spin with him. NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd immediately put Donald Trump on the defensive by airing a new Ted Cruz ad. The ad accuses Trump of using eminent domain to at powerful business connections to "bulldoze the home of an elderly widow". The ad claims that Donald Trump won 't change the system because he 's what 's wrong with it. Trump denied the claims made by the ad.

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The presidential selection process was also a problem during the Constitutional Convention. The Virginia Plan suggested that the president should be selected by Congress because its members had the best knowledge and understanding of how the presidential selection process worked. In Federalist Paper No. 68, Hamilton asserted that the “men most capable of analyzing the qualities,” hence the members of Congress, to select the president since they had enough information on the presidential candidates to evaluate and make a reasoned judgment on which candidate would fit best in the president position. Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson, on the other hand, opposed this idea and suggested that the president should be selected by ordinary citizens.

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The United States Presidential election that took place in the year 2000 was between George Bush and Al Gore. The vote was very close and it ended up all coming down to Florida. Once the votes were counted and it was revealed that Bush had won, Gore wanted a recount of the votes. The matter was taken to the Florida supreme court and Gore ended up winning the case.

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Presidential nominating conventions take place in the summer of an election year. The main task is to select the party’s presidential nominee, even that in all recent contests one candidate has already emerged from the nomination process with a clear majority of delegates and wins the nomination on the first ballot. To get the nomination, a candidate needs the support of a majority of the delegates, and if no candidate receives a majority after the first round of voting at the convention, the voting has to continue until someone does. After the delegates nominate a presidential candidate, he chooses a vice-presidential nominee, who has to be ratified by the delegates. The normal performance of the nominations used to have a pattern, in which there is a frontrunner that is leader in the early public opinion polls and has raised a large amount of money, and goes on to win the nomination.

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One of the things that makes America so great is its election process. The US elections are fair and not rigged by the people in power(as far as the public knows.) Despite this, there are still some people who try and get the elections to go one way. This is called voter fraud. Voter fraud can take many different forms, switching ballots, tampering with results, pressuring voters, and voting in the place of others.

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The English Patient was released in 1996, the same year I was born. It won Best Picture, and I have been curious as to the quality of the Best Picture of my birth year and whether or not it reflects my life in anyway. Hopefully, it does not reflect my life in the future (it hasn’t yet). Thankfully, my life has also not been as mediocre as this Oscar-winner. Set during World War II, The English Patient stars Ralph Fiennes as a horribly burned patient (we later find out his name is Count Almásy) whom Hana (Juliette Binoche), a Canadian nurse, decides to tend to as he dies in a monastery in Italy.

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