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Looking for Votes in All the Wrong Places
Author | : Rick Ridder |
Publsiher | : Radius Book Group+ORM |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2016-11-08 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781682307984 |
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The veteran presidential campaign manager recounts his many adventures, travesties, triumphs, and lessons from more than forty years on the trail. Over his long and legendary career, campaign strategist Rick Ridder has been at the center of everything from presidential death matches to the legalization of marijuana. In this lively memoir, he recounts his life on the trail from the McGovern campaign to more recent candidates and causes. Along the way, he reveals his “twenty-two rules of campaign management”―each one illustrated by entertaining, instructive, and mostly true stories from his own experiences. Rick offers an unsparing, often hilarious self-portrait of the political guru as a young man, criss-crossing the country from one drafty campaign headquarters to the next, making mistakes and pulling rabbits out of hats, wrangling temperamental celebrities, winning some elections and losing others. Through his stories, you’ll meet the state legislature candidate who said he’d win thanks to his reputation as a judge in cat competitions; the US Senate candidate who told the Southern press, “I hate southern accents”; a young Senator Al Gore who campaigned for President in 1988 by eating his way through New York City alongside Mayor Koch; Leonard Nimoy, good-naturedly trekking through rural Wisconsin in Rick’s own Jeep because Rick was too young to rent a more appropriate vehicle; and many other colorful characters.
All the Wrong Places
Author | : James Fenton |
Publsiher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0871132044 |
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Unlike any Vietnam coverage ever read, Fenton's reporting from the abandoned American embassy in Saigon is typical of his in-the-middle-of-it-all view of Cambodia, Siagon, the Philippines, and Korea.
Gay and Lesbian Americans and Political Participation
Author | : Raymond A. Smith,Donald P. Haider-Markel |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2002-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781576077313 |
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A groundbreaking volume surveying the contributions that gay and lesbian Americans have made to the democratic process. In 1969, when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people first participated as a group in the political process, they faced an imposing array of obstacles. Everything from personal rejection and violence; state anti-sodomy laws; exclusion from the armed forces; and legal discrimination in employment, housing, credit, consumer service, and public accommodations. Nevertheless, by the end of the millennium, LGBT people had transformed themselves into a well-organized and begrudgingly respected political force. In the process, they dramatically changed laws and attitudes across the nation. This new volume tells the story of the rapid growth and remarkable successes of the LGBT movement—a record that makes it one of the most successful social movements in U.S. history and, ironically, the least studied.
The Politics of Disenfranchisement
Author | : Richard K. Scher |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-03-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781317455356 |
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We think of our American democracy as being a model for the world--and it has been. But today it compares unfavorably in some respects, especially when it comes to the universal franchise. The right to vote is more conditional and less exercised in the United States than in many other mature democracies. As became clear to all in the presidential election of 2000, when the stakes are high, efforts to define voter eligibility and manage the voting and vote-counting process to the advantage of one's own side are part of hard-ball politics. It is that experience that gave rise to this book. Written by an author with wide expertise on Southern and Florida politics and districting, the book begins with a deceptively simple question--why is it so hard to vote in America? It proceeds, in seven chapters, to examine the ways that some people are formally or effectively disenfranchised, and to review how control of the ballot and the voting process is constrained, manipulated, and contested
The Case for Islamo Christian Civilization
Author | : Richard W. Bulliet |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2006-03-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780231127974 |
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The 'clash of civilisations' so often talked about in connection with relations between the West and Arab nations is, argues Richard Bulliet, no more than dangerous sophistry based on misconceptions in American government. He sets out the common ground between Islam and Christianity.
Hidden Laws
Author | : Robinson Woodward-Burns |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300258288 |
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How state constitutional reform guides and stabilizes American constitutional and political development State constitution reform guides and stabilizes American constitutional and political development. Using data sets and historical case studies, Robinson Woodward†‘Burns shows how the federal government has repeatedly deferred to state constitutional reform to manage or address difficult national constitutional controversies, including conflicts over the regulation of slavery, banking and taxation, women’s suffrage, labor and welfare rights, voting and civil rights, and gender discrimination.
Stealth Lobbying
Author | : Amy Melissa McKay |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2022-07-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781009188944 |
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This book provides new insight into how and when lobbyists influence the American policy-making process, presenting compelling evidence that members of Congress provide greater access to, allow more influence from, and even insert legislation requested by the interest groups and lobbyists who provide financial assistance to their campaigns.
Votes That Count and Voters Who Don t
Author | : Sharon E. Jarvis,Soo-Hye Han |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780271082882 |
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For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections—often in error—well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han investigate what motivates journalists to call elections before the votes have been tallied and, more importantly, what this and similar practices signal to the electorate about the value of voter participation. Jarvis and Han track how journalists have told the story of electoral participation during the last eighteen presidential elections, revealing how the portrayal of voters in the popular press has evolved over the last half century from that of mobilized partisan actors vital to electoral outcomes to that of pawns of political elites and captives of a flawed electoral system. The authors engage with experiments and focus groups to reveal the effects that these portrayals have on voters and share their findings in interviews with prominent journalists. Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t not only explores the failings of the media but also shows how the story of electoral participation might be told in ways that support both democratic and journalistic values. At a time when professional strategists are pressuring journalists to provide favorable coverage for their causes and candidates, this book invites academics, organizations, the press, and citizens alike to advocate for the voter’s place in the news.