The 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, announced he had chosen U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina as his vice presidential running mate on July 6, 2004. Kerry made the announcement just short of three weeks before the start of that year's ...
While the nation still hasn't decided between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it really likes one candidate's tax plans better than the other's.
Generally speaking, potential Presidential candidates will wait until the midterm elections have passed before announcing their intentions, as people are usually pretty distracted by the midterms. - The incumbent can file for re-election whenever they choose. President Trump famously declared himself as ...
s electoral votes. However, in Nebraska and Maine, the setup is different, and electoral votes can be split between candidates. Congress counts the electoral votes, now merely a formality, on January 6. The presidential candidate who receives a majority (270) of the 538 Electoral College votes...
The president can veto legislation and there is an override of the veto, which requires a 2/3 vote in both houses of Congress. The Supreme Court can strike down legislation as unconstitutional, and its ruling is final, but justices are themselves chosen by the political branches: they are no...
The Challengers of the Enneagram do not back down easily. They make contact through confrontation and test others by seeing how far they can push them. So when a nation's two presidential candidates are both Type Eights, you'd better believe that barbs will be traded and shots fired as ...
As we've seen in past Presidential elections, if an incumbent President is running for re-election when the economy is strong, they are virtually unbeatable. This isn't stopping a large field of Democratic candidates from attempting to secure the Democratic nomination to run against President Trum...
Also, none of this was taught nor do I see it discussed much in the world out there. I think Peter and I work not because we are opposites but because we make the other person want to become a better version of ourselves. And by better I don’t mean thinner or more fit or ...
“The Spell is Broken” So says Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, who has been chosen as Kamala’s vice-presidential running mate. I find this profound. Walz speaks to the mythical shadow world we’ve been trapped in—a scary fairy tale about a demonic sorcerer, who has had our country in...
The presidential candidates had very similar platforms, so the moderator spent most of the debate asking questions about their leadership styles. In a race where candidates differed on personal, rather than ideological, attributes, the candidates did surprisingly little to distinguish themselves from ...