Jimmy Carter

Electing Jimmy Carter: The Campaign of 1976

When he ran the first time in 1976, they say it was the first time that media advertising and television played a major role in the campaign.

William Clinton

The Media and Campaign '92 A Series of Special Election Reports: Covering the Presidential Primaries; An Uncertain Season Reporting in the Postprimary Period; The Homestretch; The Finish Line; Political Consulting. 5 Volumes

The Politics of Disenchantment: Bush, Clinton, Perot, and the Press (Hampton Press Communication Series)








Clinton-Gore 96






Campaign contributions and Presidential appointments: A fact sheet analyzing campaign contributions from nominees in the Administrations of George W. Bush and William J. Clinton

George H W Bush

"Read my lips"

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Ronald Reagan

During the campaign, Jimmy Carter spoke of the malaise in the country at the time.  Ronald Reagan, all of the sudden, knew that he, Ronald Reagan, had just won the election.  He understood that people want optimism and hope in their leaders and  in their country.

Gerald Ford

One of the most unique electoral incidents in our country.  He was never elected.  He ran for re-election, but was not elected. That election was the first one that played heavy on TV advertising and marketing.

Robert Dole

Bob Dole

Gary Hart

He was young, articulate, intelligient, he was from Colorado (It is hard to be humble when you are from Colorado), but he got testy with the media and they watched as he brought himself down. Eight years later the same thing happened, yet that candidate ignored the implications and plowed on ahead. He won.


















Books by Gary Hart





The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America

Abraham Lincoln

Perserverance - He lost more elections than he won.

Stephen Douglas

Brigham Young, a colonizer of the American West, predicted that Stephen Douglas would win the presidency if he stood by the Mormons.  Late in the election cycle, Stephen Douglas did not support the Mormons in their Washington endeavors - He lost - Was this the reason - or other factors in place.

Thomas E Dewey

Barry Goldwater

Shirley Chisholm

One of the earliest candidates in my memory

The Good Fight (A Cass Canfield Book)
Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman (Beginning Biographies)
Shirley Chisholm: A Biography

Sarah Palin

Mitt Romney

He ran against the incumbent President Barack Obama. He lost the election winning 206 of the electoral college to Obama's 332.

John McCain

Barack Obama

We are starting to know the cynical reasons for the word audacity.  Where we had hope before, we were foolish to think he could provide it.  The "Audacity" of our thinking.