Gary Graham, James Beathard, Irineo Montoya, Joseph Stanley, Jerry Lee Hogue, David Spence, Odell Barnes.... These are just a few Texans who were executed even though they may have been innocent. In a previous copy of Rolling Stone, the article "Bush & The Texas Death Machine" explained ...

Al Gore Versus George W. Bush Biographies Al Gore Candidate for President Al Gore (democrat) After serving the U.S. Army in the Vietamn War, Al Gore became a reporter for a Nashville newspaper. He then attended Vanderbilt law school and was elected to the House of Representatives for eight y...

The Third Debate The third Presidential Debate was between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush. The debate was in the format of a Town Hall debate. Both Vice President Al Gore and Gov. Bush performed well. An audience member asked the candidates a question and given two minutes to...

George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 the second of five children of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. His mother Dorothy was the daughter of a wealthy investor, and his father Prescott was an investment banker and US Senator from Connecticut. As...

The 2000 Presidential election between Vice-President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush was and still is a close campaign. This race has still not ended due to the closeness in the state of Florida primarily and the state of Oregon. Florida which contains 25 electoral college vote...

As expected, Governor George W. Bush of Texas has won the Republican Party nomination for the presidential election in November. All along, Bush was the predicted winner for the GOP, but Senator John McCain of Arizona gave the Governor a run for his money. Although Bush was able to defeat him, ...

Gone Dancin' In Molly Ivins' book, "You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You," she covers a broad range of political and social topics during Bill Clinton's presidency, doing so in her typical acerbic, satirical style. Ivins, a Texas native and writer for the Fort Wor...

The case of the CBS Bush Memo controversy deals with the authenticity of memos cited in a 60 Minutes report. CBS news anchor Dan Rather cited documents regarding President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard. These documents are now being scrutinized by experts concerni...

William Jefferson Clinton was a candidate of the democratic party. He was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. Although he was defeated in his campaign for Congress in Arkansas's Third District in 1974, Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. ...

Colorado's Presidential Elections I was assigned to research the 2000 presidential elections in Colorado. Colorado is a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats. Colorado has 2.8 million voters, have that approximately one million are Republicans; 967,500 are unaffiliated; 842,000 are De...

As the Republican Party hunkers down and get down to business of winning the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election with their "last man standing" candidate John McCain, the Democrats are still on a slugfest between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. True to the cliche, &qu...

America as a whole has definitely come face to face with some pretty drastic changes since President Bush took office on January 20, 2001. The question is however, what is in store for the future of America, and how much change can American's cope with at one time? Obviously some American's can'...

The Electorial College has caused a lot of controversy over the past several years. For example, our most recent presidential election which put Vice President Al Gore up against the Governor of Texas, George W. Bush. This election went down to the wire....

February 27, 2001 Summary of "Bush Redux" In "Bush Redux" appearing in the January 22, 2001 issue of U.S. News and World Report, journalist Kenneth T Walsh points out the differences and similarities between George W. Bush and his father. Now that he's on the verge of p...

Why the Gore/Bush Election is such a mess Right now, America is in a time of uncertainty about this election. The race between Al Gore and George W. Bush is the closest presidential race the country has seen in its history. With an election this close, many controversial issues have also...

Election day is right around the corner. On November 7, 2000 American citizens will be voting whether they want George W. Bush as our president or Al Gore . Both candidate are well qualified for the job. As Alan Litchman said " you have to have a certain basic level of intel...

Presidential elections have taken place every four years for more than two hundred years. This year is no exception. The forerunners in the 2000 elections are Governor George Bush (Republican) and Vice President Al Gore (Democrat). These candidates have strong and different views on many issues...

I caught the Dan Rathers apology the other day; I was glad to see him apologize like a man. However it still seemed as though Dan was trying to split the blame "fifty-fifty" with Mr. Burkett. The apology still seemed sincere, but he did not apologize to President Bush for the damage that ...

Senator Paul Wellstone Late Senator Paul Wellstone's extraordinary courage in the fight for issues such as peace and human rights along with his opposition to the Gulf War and the war in Iraq made him a political hero in the eyes of many. As U.S. senator of Minnesota, Wellstone ...

Already at the beginning, the tension mounts. The format is that they are to have a descent conversation. Neither one of them can talk over two minutes at a time. They start the debate with the big question of; What will you do with the single most powerful country in the world? Not only did Bu...

In John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, he discusses men who he believes to be politically courageous. He points out in each case how they stood up for what they believed in no matter what the consequences. JFK goes into detail about eight different men, including, John Quincy Adams, Dan...

1. How elect a US President? The rules of US Constitution specifies that a president must be elected every four years. Candidates must be at least 35 years old and a US citizen born in the USA. American politicians say the way they elect their president is one of the most open and democratic pr...

Michelle Tilly Political Science 101 Thursday December 6, 2001 The Election of 2000 Bill Clinton, as a president was a major paradox in and of himself. People loved him, yet they hated him. Americans, as a whole loved the prosperity, and capitalist growth that was brought by Clint...

Social Studies Political Spectrum Project By Cameron Nazeri Introduction I have gathered four articles from the New York Times newspaper, which is a Liberal newspaper, and broken them down into a summary and a short understanding of what makes the article Liberal. The four articles include a polit...

Senate's Long Losing Streak on Presidency Could Be Near an End By Carl Hulse (NYT - 2/7/08) With the unexpected withdrawal of Republican Mitt Romney from the presidential race, the likelihood of a sitting United States senator going straight from Congress to the presidency appe...