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This innovative study blends sophisticated statistical analyses, campaign anecdotes, and penetrating political insight to produce a fascinating exploration of one of America's most controversial political institutions--the process by which our major parties nominate candidates for the presidency. Larry Bartels focuses on the nature and impact of "momentum" in the contemporary nominating system. He describes the complex interconnections among primary...
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"What Is a Primary? will help readers explore how primaries began, types of primaries, the primary election process, and the political party conventions that determine candidates in the U.S. elections process. Engaging text and fascinating election facts will draw readers in to this timely civics topic"--
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"American politics is not just a combination of high ideals and low cunning. It is also the story of thousands of local influencers, fixers, activists, and run-of-the-mill voters who shape the destinies of candidates. It's about the flawed and ambitious people who become candidates and must first grind it out for one vote at a time, if they want to ascend to the nation's highest office. Nowhere is this more true, and more carefully preserved, than...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
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"Many voters take part in general elections but are largely unaware of how primaries and caucuses work. With the help of this informative book, readers learn all about these important processes that help select candidates to run for office. Struggling readers are able to utilize accessible text to learn about this key facet of the upper elementary social studies curriculum. Eye-catching photographs and educational fact boxes further illustrate important...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
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By the time the U.S. presidential election rolls around every four years, everyone knows who's in the running for office. But how are presidential candidates in the United States chosen? How do candidates get nominated, and what does a nomination mean? Can you become president without a nomination, and why or why not? Readers will learn about political parties, national conventions, special circumstances during nominations, and the history of presidential...
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"The president of the United States holds the most important office in the country. The person who is elected to fill this position represents the nation's highest commitment to the rule of law. The process by which this job is filled can be hard for struggling readers to grasp, leaving them uninformed. With a focus on simple language and helpful graphics, this title makes the ins and outs of a presidential election easy to understand. Readers will...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Primaries and caucuses are some of the first steps to becoming the president of the United States. Candidates who've announced their intention to run for this important office first have to convince members of their political party (and sometimes others) that they deserve a nomination. Primaries and caucuses help political parties choose their official party candidate. In this volume, readers will learn about the history of and key parts and processes...
11) Oppo: a novel
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Peter Rena and Randi Brooks volume 3
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"It's presidential primary season in Washington, D.C., and both parties are on edge. At campaign rallies for all the candidates around the country, there are disturbing incidents of violence and protest and shocking acts of civil disobedience. Peter Rena and Randi Brooks are happy to sit it out. Against this backdrop, Wendy Upton, the highly respected centrist senator, must make a choice: she's been offered the VP slot by both parties' leading candidates....
12) 24: Season one
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Jack Bauer, head of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, is thrust into a 24-hour marathon of death, deception, and terror as he struggles to prevent the assasination of a presidential candidate, find the traitor within his own organization, and save his kidnapped wife and daughter.
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Draws on interviews with major political leaders in an account of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign to secure the Democratic presidential nomination instead of incumbent Jimmy Carter that discusses how their rivalry reflected significant party changes.
"From a strange, dark chapter in American political history comes the captivating story of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter, told in full for the first time. The...
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The exhilarating story of the four-month campaign that changed American politics forever. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt came out of retirement to challenge his close friend and handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican Party nomination. To overcome the power of the incumbent, TR seized on the idea of presidential primaries, telling bosses everywhere to "Let the People Rule." The cheers and jeers of rowdy supporters and detractors...
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On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the state's Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy prepared to fly from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., had been shot outside his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Before his plane landed in Indianapolis, Kennedy heard the news that King had died. Despite warnings from Indianapolis police that...
16) No safe place
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Kerry Kilcannon trilogy volume 1
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A pro-abortion presidential candidate is stalked by a pro-life assassin during an electoral campaign in California. The candidate is Kerry Kilcannon, a senator from New Jersey whose brother was shot when he ran for president.
17) 24: Season three
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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2004
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After three years since thwarting a terrorist attack on the United States, Jack Bauer is back in L.A. working undercover to bring down drug lord Ramon Salazar. The FBI receives a phone call threatening to release a deadly virus in Los Angeles, if Salazar is not released from prison within six hours.
19) 24: Season one
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2007], p2002
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English
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Jack Bauer, head of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, is thrust into a 24-hour marathon of death, deception, and terror as he struggles to prevent the assasination of a presidential candidate, find the traitor within his own organization, and save his kidnapped wife and daughter.