Presidential Electoral System .9-12 V. ... Both parties have displayed their staying power as shown by Bibby and Maisel: "Each has sustained dramatic swings of fortune "landslide victories, demoralizing defeats, cliffhanger wins and losses, major splinter movements, and realignment of bases for electoral support."" ... The focus of this paper is on the institutional barriers that are confronted by third party candidates in presidential politics. ... On the other hand, the Electoral College harmed both presidential candidates. ... My research and analysis of the li...

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And respectable is what he aims for his party to be in regards to French politics - a respectable extreme right- wing party, if there is such a thing Le Pen has obviously succeeded somehow in changing the appearance of right-wing extremism in France as the election results show: In 1978 the Front gained a rather unspectacular 0.4% of the vote, and in the 1981 presidential elections Le Pen failed to gather the 500 signatures that is required for a candidate to stand. ... This was indeed a proud moment for Le Pen and the Front as Alistair Cole tells us that: "T...

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This evidence goes back no further than the 2012 Presidential Election. ... They have a lot of political power. ... The purpose of the Wall Street Journal editorial was to illustrate Holder's strategy is to scare minorities into seeing voter ID laws as a threat, hopefully energizing them to turn out for Obama in the Presidential election. ... " Latino community leaders have also told Latino voters that these laws are an attempt to silence their growing political power, but some in the Latino community resent the implication that Hispanics, like black voters, are somehow inept t...

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In the months leading up to the recent 2012 presidential election, there was an issue that was all over the news because of the impact that it would have at the polls. ... The Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped to solidify the voting rights of all Americans, and gave the Department of Justice the power to sue states that limited the voting rights of minorities. ...

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