The 2004 presidential election raised a number of questions about the role of military service in political campaigns, particularly how it affects individual-level engagement in politics. However, only a few social scientists have tested theories about the military and politics with survey data

Following through on pledges made during his election campaign, President Bush proposed and Congress passed a substantial tax cut in 2001, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (EGTRRA). Much has been written about the size of the tax cut, its impact on the federal budget, its

to become more involved. Blog posts discussed issues and attacked the opponents, including President Bush. For the most part, blog posts were personal in nature and used direct address. The tactical use of advanced Web site features showed a technological progression of political campaigning and an overall

George Bush opposes gun control and favors executing Hor-tons. I would guess Willy [sic] Horton doesn’t. (A white focus-group participant, Texas, October 1988)1

compares his style to that of his predecessors. Using DICTION, a computerized language analysis program, the study finds that Bush was quite tentative during the 2000 campaign and eschewed use of a narrative style. By the time his reelection campaign began, how-ever, Bush had dramatically increased

of the Social Security system. According to his plan, a portion of the payroll tax would be designated for individual savings accounts. At the same time as this issue was being debated in the United States, Sweden was in the process of launching a system that is very similar to President Bush’s

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Long before the political conventions of 2004, the Kerry and Bush campaigns and their surrogates were laying the groundwork for the fall campaign with heavy ad buys. Some of the assertions made on each side were misleading. Here we explore three misleading claims made on each side in the weeks

they explicitly omit such factors as opinion poll values, incumbency, and economic performance. Instead, the only persuasive messages used to predict opinion came from 3,394 stories from the Ma-jor Paper library of the NEXIS electronic data base scored by computer for news favorable and unfavorable to George Bush

environment. We ask: What happens when a president actively campaigns for some of his party’s congressional candidates? Using data for the 2002 midterm elections we test several hypotheses related to President Bush’s decision to campaign for some House candidates and not for others. Next, we assess the impact