elections

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/2/19
  

  Unethical, even illegal campaign tactics are an American tradition

  by Steffen W. Schmidt

  Since the earliest years of the republic, candidates have used deceptive, underhanded and dubiously legal tactics to discredit their opponents.

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• 4/30/19
  

  6 Presidents Who Never Lost an Election

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Of America’s 44 presidents, only six have won every election they have contested. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  Can Bill Weld unseat Trump? Let’s look at the history of challenges to incumbent presidents.

  Unseating a president from his own party isn’t easy.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/17/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden and the politics of touch

  by Mark M. Smith

  No one was better at tactile politics than Abraham Lincoln.

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• 4/11/19
  

  The Israeli Elections and What We Can Learn from History

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  To understand the Israeli electoral process one has to delve more deeply into Israeli society and the way it has evolved.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  3/21/19
  

  Democrats’ Voting-Rights Push Could Begin a Third Reconstruction

  by Ed Kilgore

  As in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, one party is committed to the use of federal power to vindicate voting rights, and the other is opposed.

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• 2/16/19
  

  How the Shortest Presidency Spurred a Brief Constitutional Crisis

  by Suzy Evans

  William Henry Harrision only served as president for 31 days but he still sparked a constituional debate. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/22/19
  

  Foreign interference in US elections dates back decades

  by Bradley W. Hart

  Two campaigns, in 1940 and 1960, featured bold attempts by hostile foreign powers to put their preferred candidates in the Oval Office.

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• 5/6/18
  

  The Founders Worried too, About Foreign Meddling in Our Elections

  by Jeanne Abrams

  John Adams went so far as to advocate the holding of fewer elections on the grounds that would give foreigners less opportunity to interfere.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  1-10-15
  

  Israel’s March 2015 Elections

  by Lawrence Davidson

  There is trepidation in the Zionist ranks over the March 2015 elections for a new Knesset or parliament.

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• SOURCE: FlackCheck.org
  10-30-14 (accessed)
  

  150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Reelection: How the campaign might have looked in the TV age

  What would the 1864 presidential campaign have looked like if Abe Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan had used today’s deceptive campaign techniques and video attack ads?

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• How Harold Washington, Against the Odds, Became the First Black Mayor of Chicago

  by Bill Zimmerman and Marilyn Katz

  And lessons for aspiring underdog political candidates today.

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• Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Election

  by Juan Cole

  Those who believed that Khamenei would try to fix this election for Jalili as he is accused by the Green ovement of doing four years ago were mistaken. 

• SOURCE: NYT
  1-21-13
  

  Robert O. Self: Have We Reached a Political Realignment Yet?

  Robert O. Self is a professor of history at Brown and the author, most recently, of “All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s.”BARACK OBAMA has arrived at a historical moment enjoyed by only one other Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt: he gets to deliver a second Inaugural Address.The second inaugurals we remember bear witness to political realignment. The words of Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, in particular, testify to the closing of one era and the opening of another. In 1936 and 1984, Roosevelt and Reagan each won big. Their triumphs consolidated political transformations that had been building for some time and allowed their respective parties to reset the nation’s political center of gravity.Without the benefit of historical distance, how do we judge whether we are in the midst of such a realignment? Are the country’s deepest political instincts undergoing fundamental change? Coming up with an answer is not easy....