POLS 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Road to the White House: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, Relative Change And Difference
8 May 2020
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Road to the white house 2020 chapter 7. Elections have been held in united states in 1789, with campaigning by parties for their nominees beginning soon after. It was not until the end of the 1800s the presidential candidates actively competed in the campaigns. Election paraphernalia distributed by parties first appeared in the 1820s. The use of the campaign to reach out to the electorate began on a large scale in 1840: the election of 1840 was also the first in which party nominee actually campaigned for themselves. This precedent was not quickly followed, and it was another 20 years before our candidate took to the stump. Presidential candidates remained on the sidelines until the 1880s. Warren g harding in 1920 was the first campaign to use the radio to speak directly to voters: this new medium and then television later on, radically changed presidential campaigns.
