American History
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Hillary’s campaign? Cranking up, but so far it’s… ‘meh’
by Mark Shanahan, Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. “The race for the Democratic nomination is in the home stretch, and victory is in sight!” With those words, Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the adoring loyalists… Continue reading
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The Elephant in the Room: the Republican Party in 2016
by Dafydd Townley The race to be the party candidates for the 2016 election has been fascinating. It has confused poll analysts, political scientists, and broken from historical trends. All of this and it is only April. As onlookers we… Continue reading
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The emergence of Trump and Sanders: not just a phenomenon confined to the United States?
by Darius Wainwright President Dwight D Eisenhower once threatened to leave the Republican Party unless it reflected the progressive, centrist principles that he advocated.[i] Were he alive today, it is fair to say that current developments within the GOP would… Continue reading
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Looking towards Super Tuesday
by Dafydd Townley The American election campaign takes its first major step towards selecting the final candidates for the two major parties next Tuesday. Super Tuesday, as it has become known, is the day on which the largest number of… Continue reading
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Who’s Who: The 2016 Democrat and Republican presidential candidates
by Darius Wainwright February 2016 marked the beginning of the Democrat and Republican primaries, where preliminary elections are held to decide who should run for office. In the United States, state level primaries are held from now until June, with… Continue reading
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