I had to write a final for my Presidential Primaries, Nominations, & Elections course. We were given a list of questions and had to provide essay answers to them. Mine follows! Continue reading “Paper: Presidential Final” →

This was the final paper for my Presidential Primaries, Nominations, & Elections class. In it I study the impact of a President’s personality type on his electoral and governing success. I really liked the idea of the paper, but my professor rightly dinged me for not having enough data to support the conclusions I ended up drawing. (Such things are hard when you only have 43 samples to look at!) Continue reading “Paper: Presidential Personalities & Success” →

So now we’ve seen the 2008 Presidential election, and we’ve done some reading on the nature of realignment elections. My Presidential Primaries, Nominations, & Elections professor asked us to write a paper on whether this year’s Presidential election should be considered a realignment election. Continue reading “Paper: 2008 was not a Realignment Election” →

This time I’m looking at political advertising in the 1976 Presidential campaign. The professor sent us all to the Living Room Candidate site to watch Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford’s ads and do an analysis of them. Continue reading “Paper: Political Advertisements” →

This is another paper from my Presidential Primaries, Nominations, & Elections course. It takes the form of a strategic memo for the McCain-Palin campaign a month before the 2008 election. Continue reading “Paper: McCain Strategic Memo” →

This is a short paper I wrote in my Presidential Primaries, Nominations, & Elections class. It briefly describes the Republican nominating convention from 1860, and the Democratic nominating convention from 2000, and compares them. Continue reading “Paper: Conventions Then & Now” →