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04 Election. 1. Analyze the Presidential election of 2004. What happened
and why? 2. Analyze the changing nature of the media and ...
... This is perhaps the most important election of our time. ... The DNC and the RNC alike
have stated they are sure on the control of the Senate [AP 04/02]. ...
... Australia and one of the issues that the parties have diverse election promises
on ... half of all new jobs created have gone to casual workers (Kryger, 2003-04). ...
... Retrieved on 2008-04-16. ^ Prince George—Peace River. Thirty-ninth General
Election 2006—Poll-by-poll results, Official Voting Results. ...
... his successors combined). I only wish that their was a candidate like
that running for election in \04. When you gave this ...
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1. Analyze the Presidential election of 2004. What happened and why?
2. Analyze the changing nature of the media and how that is affecting politics.
The two questions identified above cannot be adequately answered alone without one influencing the other because a campaign that influences the election of the most powerful position in the world is a public event. However, after months of predictions of a too-close-to-call contest, Bush won nationwide balloting making him the 15th president elected to a second term and the first to win both a majority of the popular vote and the Electoral College since his father in 1988. The GOP also extended its majorities in the House and Senate.
The Presidential election followed a political campaign in which the weapons of choice were partisan criticism and attack ads rather than details that illuminate the character of the candidates. What troubled me about these partisan attacks is that reporters and columnists are governed by the tides of events tending to be too laudatory about candidates on the way up and too critical of politicians on the way down. For example; the coverage of Howard Dean's presidential race.
In an ideal world, the 2004 campaign should have been conducted without the vicious Swift Boat Vets ads tarring John Kerry and the exaggerated furor over Bush's National Guard service instead of demanding the candidates convey their platform and debate real issues.
Although Bush took office in 2001 after a disputed election, he benefited from the traditional presidential honeymoon to win passage of his sweeping tax cuts. Sept. 11 then produced an understandable increase of presidential patriotism. That same public mood helps to influence the failure of the press to apply sufficient skepticism to the president's rationale for the invasion of Iraq, the conflict that will define his presidency. Nevertheless, the results of the 2004...
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