It contains materials suitable for various grades and reading levels, including information on: * Understanding the 2008 presidential election process; * The use of technology in the 2008 presidential election; * Why the election of Barack Obama is a significant event in the history of the United States; and * Examining Obama's 2004 DNC keynote address in the context of his 2008 presidential run.
In an age of touch-screen maps and cable news shows that flicker and gleam, it was a simple dry-erase board and Russert's scrawled words, "Florida Florida Florida," that presaged history the night of the 2000 presidential election. With a post that visible in the orbit of political news, Russert became a media focal point in the scandal of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Contribution recipients Iowa Legislature candidates receiving contributions from out-of-state and federal political action committees, as of Oct. 14: Speaker Pat Murphy, D-Dubuque, House District 28........$48,600 Sen. Mark Zieman, R-Postville, Senate District 8........$14,200 Sen. Tom Hancock, D-Epworth, Senate District 16.........$8,050 Francis Giunta, unsuccessful Democratic primary candidate, House District 27..........$3,000 Sen. Brian Schoenjahn, D-Arlington, Senate District 12.........$2,650 Rep. Steve Lukan, R-New Vienna, House District 32..........$2,300 Dave McLaughlin, R-Cascade, Senate District 16........$2,000 Rep. Roger Thomas, D-Elkader, House District 24..........$1,950 Rep. Ray Zirkelbach, D-Monticello, House District 31..........$1,200 Rep. Tom Schueller, D-Maquoketa, ...
... been tracking money spent on federal elections since the 1980s, looked at the numbers from the Oc... this the most expensive election in history. The Washington, D.C.-based center is predicting t... election is over, and it expects the presidential race alone to cost nearly $2.4 billion. (That's mo...
...) had never been used before in campaign history. . The book is engaging, and, if one is open to as...:' Twitter and the 2008 Presidential Election," Frederic Solop offers an overview of the campaig...
[...] went to tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, the only musician to place in the Top 10 every year since this poll's inception, for Folk Art. Part of it may have been the inevitable letdown from my elation over Obama's election in '08 (he inherited not just two wars but three- and the presence of a black man in the White House has only escalated the Culture Wars), coupled with simple decade fatigue (the uh-oh's witnessed a stolen presidential election, the worst domestic terrorist attack in history, the submergence of an entire city, the collapse of the free market, and the possible demise of the publishing and recording industries).
Hurricane Ike was the perfect bad-timing storm. Ike blew hell on this Gulf of Mexico county on Sept. 13, 2008, its 20-foot storm surge ripping away whole beach communities. The hurricane's ravages came at a time when the nation's attention was focused on an economic meltdown and a hard-fought presidential election. In the aftermath of the third-costliest storm in hurricane history, there was little celebrity outpouring - no heart-shaking movie star produced telethons. There was only brief wall-to-wall media coverage - with many in the nation and networks feeling a here- we-go-again post-Hurricane Katrina fatigue.
May 10 brings the 50th anniversary of a West Virginia event that changed American history. The Mountain State's legendary 1960 primary election clinched the Democratic presidential nomination for John F. Kennedy and carried him into the White House. To mark the golden anniversary, aging veterans of that clash will hold an all-day Charleston program, mostly at the Culture Center. I'm to be among panelists. Another all-day ceremony is set for Logan, which was a 1960 political battleground.
A gargantuan line of voters snaked outside the Clark County Elections Office and around the corner of Mill Plain Boulevard in the first all-mail presidential election in county history. Some voters endured a two-hour wait. Thousands of Clark County voters demonstrated their commitment to democracy by standing in line for up to two hours in intermittent rain and chilly temperatures.
With overwhelming majorities of voters and other survey respondents telling pollsters that the economy is the most important issue during the 2008 election year, the unemployment rate, as it has in comparable periods, will play a major role in the presidential election. As history has demonstrated, not only will the level of the unemployment rate be a major factor; so, too, will its trend. The April unemployment rate was 5 percent, which is relatively low by historical standards. Indeed, the current unemployment rate is comfortably below the average unemployment rates for the 1970s (6.2 percent), the 1980s (7.3 percent) and the 1990s (5.75 percent). The April unemployment rate of 5 percent is the same as the 2000-07 average rate.
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