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Barack Obama’s stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America’s legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics?
In The Obama Victory, Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson draw upon the best voter data available, The National Annenberg Election Survey, as well as interviews with key advisors to each campaign, to illuminate how media, money, and messages shaped the 2008 election. In a crisp, incisive narrative, the authors identify the candidates’ major themes–Maverick versus Mc-Same; Change versus Tax and Spend Liberal,… More >>
The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election
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This is an advanced guide to running political campaigns. It provides invaluable, practical advice from the leading pros in the industry…. More >>
Winning Elections: Political Campaign Management, Strategy, and Tactics
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From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call–the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.
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With new and revised essays throughout, this book provides a real education in practical campaign politics. Academics and campaign professionals describe the innovation and reality of election campaigns as they have evolved over time to culminate in the phenomena of the new town meetings, bus tours, talk radio, infomercials, focus groups, and the Internet. The third edition explains how campaign themes and strategies are set and communicated; how advanced campaign tactics are used; why mobilizing volunteers is essential; why early campaign money is worth more; how to get the media to cover a campaign without paying for it; and how to use focus groups, survey research, and media to win elections. Offering a uni… More >>
Campaigns and Elections American Style
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John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how eletions can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don’t exist. If nothing is done to address the growing cynicism about vote counting, rest assured that another close presidential election that descends into bitter partisan wrangling is just around the corner…. More >>
Stealing Elections, Revised and Updated: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
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“They could write like angels and scheme like demons.” So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson’s masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election — an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it “America’s second revolution.” This was America’s first true presidential campaign, giving birth to our two-party system and indelibly etching the lines of partisanship that have so profoundly shaped American politics ever since. The contest featured two of our most beloved Founding Fathers, once warm friends, facing off as the heads of their two still-forming parties — the hot-tempered but sharp-minded John Adams,… More >>
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign
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Revised and updated, this is the most pratical, most detailed handbook ever published on the techniques and approaches you need to run a successful campaign for any local office…. More >>
How To Win A Local Election, Revised: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
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Michael Nelson once again brings together top-notch scholars to analyze all aspects of the 2008 elections. Available mere months after the November 4th elections, this volume provides an insightful look at the contests, their outcomes, and their implications for the future.
With original, first-rate analysis, chapter authors capture the drama as well as critique the importance of particular races — all the while giving perspective to the larger trends and effects of the election results. An invaluable and incredibly current resource when imparting the significance of voting and elections in the classroom, instructors can count on The Elections of 2008 to pique students’ interest while providing a fasc… More >>
The Elections of 2008
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The new edition of this book describes the role of gender in the American electoral process through the 2008 elections. It strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2008 elections and providing a deeper analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape electoral politics in the United States. Individual chapters demonstrate the importance of gender in understanding presidential elections, voter participation and turnout, voting choices, the participation of African American women, congressional elections, the support of political parties and women’s organizations, candidate communications with voters, and state elections. This updated volume… More >>
Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics
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Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister, thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades Paul Warren-a good-hearted jock-to throw his hat into the student council’s elections. But that puts Paul’s sister Tammy in a snit. So she runs too, on an apathy platform-before starting a real campaign–to get herself kicked out of school.Amazon.com Review
Tom Perrotta is a remarkably astute observer and writer of the adolescent experience. His Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies is a delightful collection … More >>
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