The Manipulated Path to the White House-1996: Maximizing Advantage in the Presidential Selection Process

This book takes the reader through the intricate process by which the United States chooses its President. All aspects of the 1996 presidential election are covered―from the first primary election votes cast in New Hampshire to the fun and excitement at the two national conventions to the presidential candidate debates to President Bill Clinton's final victory over Senator Bob Dole on Election Day. Particular attention is paid to the campaign finance scandals which dominated the last three weeks of the 1996 presidential campaign. The book then offers a series of realistic and achievable reforms designed to make presidential elections less manipulative and more fair to voters.

History

Loevy, Robert D.

Americas

University Press of America

This book takes the reader through the intricate process by which the United States chooses its President. All aspects of the 1996 presidential election are covered-from the first primary election votes cast in New Hampshire to the fun and excitement at the two national conventions to the presidential candidate debates to President Bill Clinton's final victory over Senator Bob Dole on Election Day.

On The Forward Edge is an American Government text-novel. It teaches the basic principles of American Government through the medium of a novelistic account of young people working for change at the time of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.Clark Schooler, a recent college graduate, begins his newspaper career by reporting on the sit-in demonstrations of the early civil rights movement. He covers the efforts of college students to use direct-action and protests to force the racial integration of a movie theater in Baltimore. His editor then sends him to the all-white University of Mississippi to witness and write about the campus riot that takes place when a black student, James Meredith, attempts to attend the University.After covering the 1963 March on Washington, Clark is given a journalistic internship in the Capitol Hill office of United States Senator Thomas H. Kuchel of California. Senator Kuchel is one of the floor leaders for the civil rights bill that will eventually be enacted as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.In his capacity as a Senate aide, Clark observes first hand the inner workings of Congress, particularly the way in which senators supporting racial segregation are using the Senate filibuster to "talk to death" the civil rights bill. Clark works with Senator Kuchel to find 67 votes to "cloture" the civil rights bill and thereby end the filibuster.Clark meets Bonnie Kanecton, a young lawyer working for Senator Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois. Bonnie shows Clark how, through carefully crafted legislative compromises, Senator Dirksen is able to fashion a final version of the bill capable of winning 67 votes for cloture. But the battle is not over until the Supreme Court, in the late fall of 1964, upholds the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

On the Forward Edge: American Government and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process (Suny Series on the Presidency : Contemporar)

This book is a voter's-eye view of the 1992 presidential election campaign. Robert D. Loevy traveled from state to state throughout the 1992 presidential selection process--from the pre-primary period through election day--studying the candidates and the various techniques they used to win votes and outwit their opponents. As he made his way from one political rally to another, and watched one political commercial after another, Loevy had two main questions in mind: Is this process fair to the candidates who are running and the people who are making up their minds about whom to vote for? And does this process treat the voters of each state equally? This book catches the flavor and excitement of the 1992 presidential election while at the same time pointing out flaws in the process--a haphazard calendar of presidential primaries, a national nominating convention that no longer nominates, and an Electoral College that distorts each state's relative impact, to name a few--that make it essentially unequal in nature. Loevy proposes realistic and achievable reforms for each of the flaws described.

The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process (Suny the Presidency: Contemporary Issues)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

State University of New York Press

This book is a voter’s-eye view of the 1992 presidential election campaign. Robert D. Loevy traveled from state to state throughout the 1992 presidential selection process―from the pre-primary period through election day―studying the candidates and the various techniques they used to win votes and outwit their opponents. As he made his way from one political rally to another, and watched one political commercial after another, Loevy had two main questions in mind: Is this process fair to the candidates who are running and the people who are making up their minds about whom to vote for? And does this process treat the voters of each state equally? This book catches the flavor and excitement of the 1992 presidential election while at the same time pointing out flaws in the process―a haphazard calendar of presidential primaries, a national nominating convention that no longer nominates, and an Electoral College that distorts each state’s relative impact, to name a few―that make it essentially unequal in nature. Loevy proposes realistic and achievable reforms for each of the flaws described.

State Univ of New York Pr

Colorado Politics & Government: Governing the Centennial State (Politics and Governments of the American States)

Colorado Politics and Government provides a political history and analysis of the state, emphasizing contemporary problems, conflicts, and their possible resolutions. In examining the political culture of the state, the authors elaborate on the political beliefs and voting patterns of its citizens and examine key political institutions, such as the governorship, the legislature, political parties, and the courts.

Colorado Politics & Government: Governing the Centennial State (Politics & Governments of the American States)

Cronin, Thomas E.

University Of Nebraska Press

Survey after survey reveals that many Coloradans believe that the U.S. government is too big, too wasteful, and too intrusive. Yet Colorado is arguably one of the most federally subsidized states in the union, with forests, national parks, military bases, and research laboratories benefiting from the federal government’s largesse. A concise history of Colorado’s constitution and central political institutions, Colorado Politics and Policy offers a probing analysis of the state’s political cultures. It shows how the state, in many ways a template of the deeply contrary politics of the nation, puts political power into the hands of an ever-more-polarized electorate increasingly inclined to put the concerns of government to the test of the citizen-initiative. Colorado Politics and Policy is the result of broad-gauged and sophisticated research which includes author interviews with citizens and officials across the state, three specially commissioned statewide public opinion surveys, and extensive interviews with governors, legislators, judges, lobbyists, interest group leaders, and leading political analysts. This fresh and engaging interpretation is essential reading for those who want to understand Colorado’s major election trends, chief public policy and budget challenges, and this distinctively purple state’s unique political history.

Colorado Politics and Policy: Governing a Purple State (Politics and Governments of the American States)

Colorado Politics and Government provides a political history and analysis of the state, emphasizing contemporary problems, conflicts, and their possible resolutions. In examining the political culture of the state, the authors elaborate on the political beliefs and voting patterns of its citizens and examine key political institutions, such as the governorship, the legislature, political parties, and the courts.

This book traces the early history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, showing how brutal police treatment of civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, forced President Kennedy to send a strong civil rights bill to Congress in June of 1963. The various legislative strategies used to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress are detailed. The study relies on original sources (letters, memoranda, oral histories, daily notes and diaries) in presidential and congressional libraries. These materials are supported by an extensive series of personal interviews by the author. Contents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964; John F. Kennedy, "The Fires of Discord"; Writing the Administration Bill; Subcommittee No. 5 "Out of Control" for Civil Rights; Lyndon B. Johnson, "To Write It in The Books of Law"; "Vultures" in the Galleries/"Miracles" On the Floor; Mike Mansfield and Hubert Humphrey, "Conditioning for the Long Ordeal"; Richard Russel, The Defending Champion; Filibuster #1óThe Motion to Consider; Filibuster #2óThe Bill Itself; Everett M. Dirksen, The Great Amender; The Drive for Cloture, "An Idea Whose Time Has Come"; "To Die On The Barricades"/To Earn "A Place of Honor".

To End All Segregation

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This book traces the early history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, showing how brutal police treatment of civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, forced President Kennedy to send a strong civil rights bill to Congress in June of 1963. The various legislative strategies used to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress are detailed. The study relies on original sources (letters, memoranda, oral histories, daily notes and diaries) in presidential and congressional libraries. These materials are supported by an extensive series of personal interviews by the author. Contents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964; John F. Kennedy, 'The Fires of Discord'; Writing the Administration Bill; Subcommittee No. 5 'Out of Control' for Civil Rights; Lyndon B. Johnson, 'To Write It in The Books of Law'; 'Vultures' in the Galleries/'Miracles' On the Floor; Mike Mansfield and Hubert Humphrey, 'Conditioning for the Long Ordeal'; Richard Russel, The Defending Champion; Filibuster #1-The Motion to Consider; Filibuster #2-The Bill Itself; Everett M. Dirksen, The Great Amender; The Drive for Cloture, 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come'; 'To Die On The Barricades'/To Earn 'A Place of Honor'.

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The Manipulated Path to the White House-1996: Maximizing Advantage in the Presidential Selection Process

The Manipulated Path to the White House-1996: Maximizing Advantage in the Presidential Selection Process

On the Forward Edge: American Government and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process (Suny the Presidency: Contemporary Issues)

The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process (Suny Series on the Presidency : Contemporar)

Colorado Politics & Government: Governing the Centennial State (Politics & Governments of the American States)

Colorado Politics and Policy: Governing a Purple State (Politics and Governments of the American States)

Colorado Politics & Government: Governing the Centennial State (Politics and Governments of the American States)

To End All Segregation

To End All Segregation