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05-06-2007, 08:21 PM
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The American Presidency
Here is a potential essay question for one of my classes. After being an avid reader here, I figured I would post and see how you guys who seem more knowledgeable in politics than I am view potential candidates for the 2008 elections.
The 2008 election will elect a candidate who has not been president before. When no incumbent is running: a. What qualifications for the job seem most important, and why? b. What evidence from the candidates' backgrounds and records do you think is most likely to show whether a particular candidate has the qualifications you deem important? 
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#2
05-06-2007, 08:25 PM
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Re: The American Presidency
Are you asking what ultimately actually determines those elections or what we as individuals feel are important?
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05-06-2007, 08:35 PM
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Re: The American Presidency
Basically what voter's will take in to consideration (i.e. candidates stance on certain major issues in today's political realm (Iraq, economy, health care))_ when trying to decide who to vote for come election day.
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#4
05-06-2007, 08:49 PM
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Re: The American Presidency
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/res...ex.epolls.html
At least in 2000, domestic issues (economy, taxes, social security) led world affairs by a wide margin. However that is skewed by the prior years being relatively innocuous as far as US intervention and threats against us.
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#5
05-06-2007, 08:51 PM
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Re: The American Presidency
Most of the major candidates are Senators, a senator hasn't won since JFK.
Qualifications are less important than the candidate's image in the public's eye... this has been shown through many, many studies. Part b is very subjective.
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#6
05-06-2007, 10:34 PM
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Re: The American Presidency
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a. What qualifications for the job seem most important, and why? [/ QUOTE ] At least 35 years old, a natural-born citizen of the US, and not a previous two-term president seem to me to be the most important.
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#7
05-07-2007, 12:54 AM
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Re: The American Presidency
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] a. What qualifications for the job seem most important, and why? [/ QUOTE ] At least 35 years old, a natural-born citizen of the US, and not a previous two-term president seem to me to be the most important. [/ QUOTE ] that will be in my thesis
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#8
05-07-2007, 01:56 AM
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Re: The American Presidency
believing in God and the Market with equal degrees of blind faith seems rather important as well.
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