Hillary Clinton's political initiative is to become to the first female president. John Edwards wants to eliminate poverty, fight global warming, provide universal health care, and to withdraw troops from Iraq. Mike Gravel wants to deal with taxes and get them all straight so that there aren't that many issues with them. Dennis Kucinich's goal is to repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, legalizing same-sex marriage, and ending the war on drugs. Barack Obama's political initiatives are to end the Iraq War, increase energy independence, and providing universal health care. Bill Richardson stated that he would try to stick with and enforce the idea of universal health care. Those are the political initiatives for all of the candidates running for the Democratic Party.
The candidates for the Republican Party also have very strong political initiatives. Rudy Guliani may have strong opinions about abortion and some other issues but he also has many goals in mind if he were to be elected the president. Mike Huckabee is not going to do anything about the war going on in Iraq, he is against gun control, but he is in favor of the death penalty. Duncan Hunter is a true conservative and he is going to stick with his beliefs regarding that position if he is chosen for president. John McCain is a lead sponsor of gun control and he would remain with that if he were chosen president. Ron Paul is in favor of free trade and he opposes birthright citizenship. Mitt Romney believes that overturning should happen to the whole Roe vs. Wade theory. The last candidate for the republican party is Fred Thompson and his political initiatives are to remain in favor of a constitutional amendment and to stay to true to his non-supportiveness of a federal ban on gay marriage. Those are the political initiatives of all the candidates running for the republican party.
A caucus is a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement and they are held to begin the processes of selecting their state's preffered presidential candidate. The Republican Party National Convention will be from September 1-4, 2008 and the Democratic Party National Convention will be from August 25-28, 2008. National Conventions are held to show both the Republican and Democratic Parties at their best and they determine the official party candidates to the public. Speaking of the public, they are exposed to the different candidates and what they have to offer when the candidates all speak on live TV and announce that they are going to run or what they are going to do for our country. The election process works by having the public vote for the candidate who they think would be the best as the president of the United States of America. Then all the votes are tallied up according to each state and then they are looked at overall and then there is an announcement regarding who was elected president. We vote every four years because after a person has been the president for four years, you have to either elect someone else or re-elect the current president. If someone has been the president for eight straight years, then you have to vote for someone else because they can only serve in office for a totaly of eight years. These are some of the different details that go along with the presidential election.
The presidential election is not broken because people are still very honest and they vote for the person who they believe is best suited for the job. In a sense, it can be a popularity contest but it is nothing like the voting that goes on in some of reality TV shows like "Survivor" or "American Idol." The primary system brings forward the best candidates because the two major parties, Democratic and Republican, are a part of that system. The best candidate is not always the best president because if that person can persuade people to vote for them and they do, then he has the job but that doesn't mean that he is going to follow through with everything which could mean that there is another candidate who could have been better. I believe we are electing the skilled and thoughtful leaders instead of the best-financed celebrity package because the candidates that run are not usually very popular figuers before they start running for president. The cost to run a campaign is anywhere from 400 million to 1 billion dollars. This cost makes me think that there is a lot of effort put into the whole election process and that if you win, it would make you feel that much better because it was such a big deal. The candidates have to work at getting the money to run for president because they do not recieve any grants until after the election. I do think that the candidates are pressured to push for issues by their contributors because the public has a lot of different opinions about what is going on in the world and the candidates are all influenced by that. If I was able to vote for president this year, I think I would vote for Rudy Guliani because I think he has the most to offer and he has a good amount of experience as far as politics and government since he was the mayor of New York City for a considerable amount of time. This is an overlook and summary of what the 2008 Presidential Election is going to be about and what other little things go along with the election.
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