What Is a Presidential Election? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Is a Presidential Election? write by Douglas Yacka. This book was released on 2024-07-02. What Is a Presidential Election? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This revised edition (updated for the 2024 election) explains American presidential campaigns and includes stickers, activities, and a color-your-own Electoral Map! Who can run for president? What are the differences between America's two major political parties? Is the Electoral College really a college? The newly updated What Is a Presidential Election? answers these questions and many, many more. From stump speeches to campaign slogans, debates to nominating conventions, and finally to Election Night and Inauguration Day, readers will learn all about what it takes to run for--and win--the most powerful job on earth. Activities throughout prompt readers to think about the issues they care most about and consider what makes a good president, sparking discussion with friends and family. Includes a sheet of presidential bobblehead stickers and a color-your-own Electoral Map for the upcoming 2024 election!
The Timeline of Presidential Elections
The Timeline of Presidential Elections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Timeline of Presidential Elections write by Robert S. Erikson. This book was released on 2012-08-24. The Timeline of Presidential Elections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In presidential elections, do voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or is the race for president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effective campaign? It’s a question those who study elections have been considering for years with no clear resolution. In The Timeline of Presidential Elections, Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien reveal for the first time how both factors come into play. Erikson and Wlezien have amassed data from close to two thousand national polls covering every presidential election from 1952 to 2008, allowing them to see how outcomes take shape over the course of an election year. Polls from the beginning of the year, they show, have virtually no predictive power. By mid-April, when the candidates have been identified and matched in pollsters’ trial heats, preferences have come into focus—and predicted the winner in eleven of the fifteen elections. But a similar process of forming favorites takes place in the last six months, during which voters’ intentions change only gradually, with particular events—including presidential debates—rarely resulting in dramatic change. Ultimately, Erikson and Wlezien show that it is through campaigns that voters are made aware of—or not made aware of—fundamental factors like candidates’ policy positions that determine which ticket will get their votes. In other words, fundamentals matter, but only because of campaigns. Timely and compelling, this book will force us to rethink our assumptions about presidential elections.
Presidential Elections and Majority Rule
Presidential Elections and Majority Rule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Presidential Elections and Majority Rule write by Edward B. Foley. This book was released on 2020. Presidential Elections and Majority Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his latest book, Presidential Elections and Majority Rule, Edward Foley asks how the American electoral system can better represent the people. What kind of winner truly reflects the nation's votes: the plurality winners of winner-takes-all elections, as currently used, or the majority-preferred winners of a reformed system? How do third-party candidates affect American presidential elections? What, if anything, would change in a two-candidate run-off?And how can electoral reform be implemented without sowing chaos? Ultimately, Foley outlines a solution in which the Electoral College can be restored to its original majoritarian ideals through state law rather than Constitutional amendment.
The Election Book
The Election Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Election Book write by Carolyn Jackson. This book was released on 2012. The Election Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Find out the answers to all your questions about the presidential election race.
Who Will Be the Next President?
Who Will Be the Next President? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Will Be the Next President? write by Alexander S. Belenky. This book was released on 2016-11-15. Who Will Be the Next President? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses the peculiarities of the current presidential election system not yet addressed in other publications. It argues that any rules for electing a President that may have a chance to replace the current ones should provide an equal representation of states as equal members of the Union, and of the nation as a whole. This book analyzes the National Popular Vote plan and shows that this plan may violate the Supreme Court decisions on the equality of votes cast in statewide popular elections held to choose state electors. That is, the National Popular Vote plan may violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The book proposes a new election system in which the will of the states and the will of the nation as a whole are determined by direct popular elections for President and Vice President in the 50 states and in D.C. This system a) would elect President a candidate who is the choice of both the nation as a whole and of the states as equal members of the Union, b) would let the current system elect a President only if the nation as a whole and the states as equal members of the Union fail to agree on a common candidate, and c) would encourage the candidates to campaign nationwide. The second edition has been updated to include a proposal on how to make established non-major party presidential candidates and independent candidates welcome participants in national televised presidential debates with the major-party candidates.
