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Informationen zum Autor Robert Watson holds the titles Distinguished Professor of American History, Avron Fogelman Research Professor, and Assistant Director of the Center for Citizenship & Civility at Lynn University and was formerly Senior Fellow with the Florida Joint Center for Citizenship. His publications include over 40 books on topics in politics and history, including, most recently George Washington’s Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and Nation (2021), winner of the Gold Medal in History at the Independence Publishers Awards. Robert Watson holds the titles Distinguished Professor of American History, Avron Fogelman Research Professor, and Assistant Director of the Center for Citizenship & Civility at Lynn University and was formerly Senior Fellow with the Florida Joint Center for Citizenship. His publications include over 40 books on topics in politics and history, including, most recently George Washington’s Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and Nation (2021), winner of the Gold Medal in History at the Independence Publishers Awards. Klappentext The book offers lively and highly readable case studies of the most intriguing and important congressional races of 2008. Both House and Senate races are included and each case covers the same topics presented in the same order within the cases. This includes profiles of both candidates and the congressional district or state of the senate race, as well as a discussion of the main policy issues of the campaign, campaign strategy, media coverage of the candidates, interest group involvement and resulting vote. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Part 2 INTRODUCTION Chapter 3 1. The 2008 Congressional Elections Part 4 HOUSE ELECTIONS Chapter 5 2. Mississippi District 1 Race (Childers v. Davis) Chapter 6 3. Missouri District 6 Race (Barns v. Graves) Chapter 7 4. Illinois District 14 Race (Foster v. Oberweis) Chapter 8 5. New York District 13Race (McMahon v. Straniere) Chapter 9 6. Texas District 23 Race (Rodriguez v. Larson) Chapter 10 7. California District 26 Race (Warner versus Dreier) Chapter 11 8. Ohio District 16 Race (Boccieri v. Schuring) Chapter 12 9. Florida District 21 Race (Martinez v. L. Diaz-Balart) Florida District 25 Race (Garcia v. M. Diaz-Balart) Chapter 13 10. Florida District 13 Race (Jennings v. Buchanan) Part 14 SENATE ELECTIONS Chapter 15 11. Louisiana Senate Race (Landreieu v. Kennedy) Chapter 16 12. Virginia Senate Race (Warner v. Gilmore) Chapter 17 13. Alaska Senate Race (Begich v. Stevens) Chapter 18 14. Colorado Senate Race (Udall v. Schaffer) Part 19 CONCLUSION Chapter 20 15. The Legacy of Election 2008 Chapter 21 Appendixes Chapter 22 About the Contributors ...
