Team "A" Week One, Post Two

Dirty Tricks That Could Change the Out Come 1824 and 2008

With reading the book of Presidential Campaigns and the ever passing Super Tuesday, there was a prevalent connection between the elections of 1824 and 2008 elections. When the class had the decision on it, we too made the connections between the two. If you were to look back on the election of 1824 it was really the first elections that got nasty. For example “Newspapers glorified the candidates they were backing extravagant terms and vilified their opponents in abusive language” (PC 35). Thus giving to the first negativity and low blowing commits towards another opponents. Yet you see this in almost every major presidential elections that surrounded major topics such as war or a “lazy economy”, for the past hundred years or so. But where do you see it today? A recent article printed “that in South Carolina residents found a Holiday greeting card from Mitt Romney in their mailboxes. The message contained within the card accentuated some of the more controversial differences between Romney’s Mormon beliefs and those of other faiths. The problem with the cards was that nobody in the Romney campaign or anyone affiliated with him sent them. Just more dirty tricks from South Carolina” (http://www.newsvine.com/). Putting aside all the negativity we also see connections within voting behavior. With Andrew Jackson of Tennessee he was well liked not for serving in the house or the senate but for “military exposits”. Same goes for John McCain of Arizona, he too was looked upon has being from the west and having a seat in the senate. But more importantly his actions as a war veteran. People today as people back in 1824 can relate and agree upon their codes of ethics. Thus having a greet understanding as to why elections goes the way it does. Where we see that in 1824 and 2008 elections, the negativities that screams out of an each of the politicians mouths. With Super Tuesday over and we now have a better understanding as to whom will be sitting at each parties chair we will really start to see more dirty tricks come out of each of their parties, and we will see who really knows the issues that are most important to the people. “Remember history always repeats itself”.

Timothy Lovell