1. Has Mass Media Reshaped American Politics?
In the closest Presidential election since John Kennedy edged out Richard Nixon in 1960, George Walker Bush beat Al Gore in a hotly disputed race where the winner was effectively decided by the Supreme Court. Bush took advantage of Al Gore's crucial errors of judgement, and used some clever politics to win an election he really lost. .
The fact remained after the legal wrangling and the disputes over ballot papers, that George Bush had gained almost half a million less popular votes than Al Gore. The vagaries of the Electoral College system meant that he became President after winning more "points" from each state than Gore. The "winner takes all" system means that a candidate will gain all Electoral College votes that a state has to offer regardless of whether he wins by one vote or one hundred thousand votes. The last time this happened in an election was in 1888 when Grover Cleveland won without the popular vote. The key electoral state of Florida was the clinching factor in 2000, where George Bush was declared the winner by 537 votes. But later it emerged that there had been problems with casting votes in Palm Beach. Palm Beach, an area with a high percentage of Jewish retired people who would be certain Democrat voters, but the results displayed a large amount of people voting for the Reform Party candidate, Pat Buchanan. This was a huge surprise as he had stated, in 1990 that the holocaust was not all bad and generally came across as anti-Semitic. It emerged later that some people had had trouble understanding the ballot paper, as the punching holes were in a, supposedly, confusing place; people had wanted to vote Gore but had mis-read the ticket and votes Buchanan instead. It also emerged that unopened boxes of ballot papers had been found in churches and community centres in predominantly black districts, districts that in Florida in 2000 had overwhelmingly voted for Gore. This lead Al Gore to call the count "incomplete and inaccurate" which was true as not all the votes had been counted and in the event, Bush won by 537 votes, and the counting of all ballot papers could easily have swung the result the other way.
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In year 2000 presidential election in United States of America was a historical election ever in United States. ... She said one night she saw Al gore(democrat candidate) was way ahead of George W. ... Next morning when she came to check the report George W. ... But modern technology of computer and computer voting was the only one reason that made George W. ... The question is if anything worst is going to happen the like 2000 presidential elections this coming up election. ...
The Presidential Election of 2000 made many United States citizens question how the voting system in America works. How is it possible that more United States citizens voted for Democrat Al Gore, yet George W. Bush won the election? ... So why did Bush win the Presidency? ... Back to the 2000 Election mentioned before, the reason George W. ...
Nine days after this extreme act of terrorism, the American people gathered around their televisions, waiting to hear President George W. ... Biography of George W. Bush On July 6, 1946 George W. Bush was the first born of six children to George Herbert Walker bush and Barbara Bush. ... Ultimately, Bush was the successor of this controversial election. ...
One of Al Gore's key stances in the presidential race was tougher gun-control laws. Many Democratic Party leaders contribute this stance in his loss of key states needed to win the 2000 Presidential election against George W. Bush. ... The NRA has had some high profile members such as; Carton Hesston, Ted Nugget and George Bush, even though he resigned his life-time membership after the Oklahoma City bombing. ... George Bush resigned his life-time membership when the NRA called agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms "jack-booted" thugs after the Oklahoma City bombing...
After the civil rights era, President Nixon was known as introducing a "Southern strategy" to win the 1968 presidential election. ... This strategy would eventually lead to its utilization by President Reagan and George W. Bush (107-10). ... Jones (2000) asserts that it is difficult for the Republican Party to win elections without the ethnic vote. ... Southern, conservative non-partisan, and religious voters) in order to win presidential elections. ...
George Bush, the Republican candidate, won only 50,456,062of the popular votes (National Archives and Records Administration). Yet what was natural did not happen. Instead, the Electoral College, a part of our government not understood by the average citizen, controlled the outcome of the election and declared George Bush the 43rd President of the United States. As the Presidential election then turned into a legal ping-pong game many American people were left asking themselves "Does my vote count?... For the candidate to win the popular election and lose the most coveted office in the coun...
Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. ... According to the Constitution of 1991 which is still in force, joint parliamentary and presidential elections should be held at the end of next year. ... Bush to Bucharest on November 23, 2002. ... Since the PSD did not gain the absolute majority in the general elections held in November 2000 it had to form...