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Calhoun, Charles W. Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888 (2008) 243 pp. Campbell, Tracy. Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, An American Political Tradition, 1742–2004 (Basic Books, 2005) Cheathem, Mark R. The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson (2018) excerpt
A paper campaign is a political campaign in which the candidate only files the necessary paperwork to appear on the ballot. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The purpose of such a token effort may be simply to increase name awareness of a minor political party, to give voters of a certain ideology an opportunity to vote accordingly, or to ensure that the party has ...
"It's Time to fix America" – a theme of the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton "Putting People first" – 1992 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Bill Clinton " It's the economy, stupid " – originally intended for an internal audience, it became the de facto slogan for the Bill Clinton campaign
American politics is dominated by two parties which since the American Civil War have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, although other parties have run candidates. Since the mid-20th century, the Democratic Party has generally supported left-leaning policies, while the Republican Party has generally supported right-leaning ...
The "Fourth Party System" is the term used in political science and history for the period in American political history from the mid-1890s to the early 1930s, It was dominated by the Republican Party, excepting when 1912 split in which Democrats (led by President Woodrow Wilson) held the White House for eight
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
A campaign announcement is the formal public launch of a political campaign, often delivered in a speech by the candidate at a political rally. Formal campaign announcements play an important role in United States presidential elections , particularly in shaping the start of a campaign season.
Reviews in American History 45.1 (2017): 57–64. Silbey, Joel H. "The State and Practice of American Political History at the Millennium: The Nineteenth Century as a Test Case". Journal of Policy History 11.1 (1999): 1–30. Swirski, Peter (2011). American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History. New ...