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U.S. Presidential Election: Candidates
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Few people believed that President Harry S. Truman had a chance of winning the 1948 presidential election. The three great national polling organizations all predicted that Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, his Republican opponent, would win by a wide margin. The press was equally certain of a Dewey victory, for the odds against the incumbent seemed insurmountable. Truman's own party had split, with Democrat Strom Thurmond running in the South as a "Dixiecrat" and former vice president Henry Wallace running as the candidate of the newly formed Progressive Party. It was expected that Wallace would drain vitally needed liberal votes away from the president. Among Democratic politicians and his own campaign staff, it seemed that the only person who thought Truman could win was the candidate himself.
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A number of vivid lessons about counting ballots came to light during the 2000 presidential election. The principal problem in Florida, as determined by the U.S. Supreme Court in ruling on the disputed election, was the issue of uniform standards in counting different types of ballots. In some jurisdictions, absentee ballots are different from those that appear in the voting device in the precincts. As a result, more than one set of tabulations might have to be made. And absentee ballots are not counted at all in some jurisdictions if there are fewer absentee ballots than the difference in the vote between the two leading candidates.
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Candidates in this presidential election are paying more attention to their online discussion than ever before In blogs, Obama trails Clinton by 3 percentage points with 28 percent compared to her 31 percent of online discussion. While they maintain similar levels of blog coverage compared to each other, their share of coverage is at least 10 percentage points lower than in traditional media. The lower percentages of share between the lead candidates in blogs compared to mainstream media suggests more broad representation of the entire candidate field among social media sources.
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The next presidential election is more than three years away, but that has not stopped a number of candidates from positioning themselves for possible runs for the Presidency. Saturn and Neptune are connected in these candidates’ horoscopes so frequently that it goes beyond mere coincidence. The following are some of the candidates who appear likely to run for U.S. President in 2008.
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