In 2012, the Latino/a vote emerged as a powerful political force. In particular, the Republican party learned a hard lesson in 2012 about the Latino/a vote. The Latino/a population had grown to 16 percent of the total population in 2010 (Carroll 149). They were also the only demographic whose turnout and support for President Obama grew, voting 71% in favor of the incumbent. Since they now made up 10 percent of the vote, these voters were a major part of the President’s re-election (Carroll 147)
There was quite a lot of change between 2004 and 2012, and the presidential elections in those years were no different. The presidential elections of 2004 and 2012 each had their own issues to decide, new campaign strategies, and even a different variety of voters compared to elections in the previous decade. In 2004, the candidates for the Republican Party was presidential nominee George W. Bush (Texas) and vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney (Wyoming); the Democratic Party nominated US Senator
First-Past-the-Post and Political Parties in Canada Canada currently employs a first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system. This system affects how different political parties fare in elections based on their regional vs. national support levels. FPTP rewards popular parties with a consistent and wide distribution of support or regionally concentrated support, while limiting the success of less popular parties with support spread out across the country. This paper attempts to prove its thesis
a more prominent role in shaping people’s perception about diverse issues, ranging from social, economic, and political. The new media is strategicin framing political perceptions as it was defined more recently in the United States presidential elections, in which the new media was deployed strategically by candidates to project positive image while opponents discredited same using the new media. The new media is being adopted to hold public officers accountable, which is the traditional role of
most published works are case studies of various countries specifically in Africa andn Asia. These case studies that contributed most to the literature identifies the causes as well as the effects of electoral violence. Also some scholars provided strategies to mitigate the problem. A great chunk of literature that examines electoral violence have been done outside the Philippines but there are also a number of scholars who have somehow delved into the issue of electoral violence within the country
in the United States is made up of the electors who are then chosen within each state to represent and elect the president after a successive presidential election by the people of each state.
matters. For example, President Donald Trump challenged his position on various issues through his Twitter accounts. For Donald Trump, it was about defending his position on allegations and setting the facts sheet straight. Such kinds of political strategies have been made effective given the fact that the world leaders are given an opportunity to speak to their people through online forums (Wihbey, 2015). Although world leaders and politicians can direct their people through speeches, using social
Whilst there are various strategies that can be employed to manage conflict, the main objective is to ensure that the end result is a win-win approach, where both parties in the conflict achieve their goals whilst at the same time maintain cordial relationships (Thakore, 2013). Conflict management strategies can either be violence or non-violence. The non – violence strategies include mediation, facilitation, negotiation, dialogue, organizational change and consensual decision making. Mediation
FREEDOM IN INDONESIA Indonesia held the first general election in 1955, just a decade after their independence. The election was conducted in two stages, the election of the members of the House of Representatives (in Indonesian: Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat or DPR) and the election of the members of the Constitutional Assembly (in Indonesian: Dewan Konstituante or DK), with the participation of 36 political parties (KPU 2010, p. 4-5). The next elections held during the era of “New Order” under the authoritarian
Obama won the heart of the people by creating hope of a better tomorrow during crisis. The campaign tag line was, "Yes We Can," while Lincoln won the election by showing people he was ordinary and down to earth. Lincoln confidently spoke against a prior president's move toward Mexican-American War. Obama is also a great supporter of peace, and he spoke against the Iraq War. Lincoln made a foreign policy