2012 U.S. Presidential Election

Paweł Laidler, Maciej Turek

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. 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. Red. Laidler, Paweł; Turek, Maciej . : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2014, 441 s. ISBN 978-83-233-9096-1

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As every presidential election, the 2012 cycle was also unique. On the one side we had president Barack Obama, who either due to his own shortcomings or rather the character of the inherited political regime, as defined by Stephen Skowronek (1997)...

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441

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Introduction8
PART ONE: LAW, HISTORY, AND POLITICS OF THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS10
Robert Podolnjak, The Constitution, the Electoral College, and the American Concept of Democracy – a View from Europe12
Jolanta Daszyńska, The Elections of the First Three American Presidents: How Did Americans Elect Washington, Adams and Jefferson?32
Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, White House Hostess, Pet Causes Campaigner, Convention Speaker – Evolution of Position and Role of American First Lady48
Marco Morini, A Study on the Re-election Chances of American Presidents: Does the Unemployment Rate Matter?66
Paweł Laidler, Conservative Crime Control v. Liberal Due Process and Presidential Elections84
Magdalena Modrzejewska, Presidential Debate. Where Is the Question?100
PART TWO: DOMESTIC FRONT116
Donathan Brown, The Rhetorical Currency of Immigration Reform118
Anna Bartnik, Hispanics in the 2012 Presidential Elections130
Zinovia Lialiouti, Discursive Strategies in an Era of Economic Crisis: Barack Obama, the American Dream and the American Middle Class144
Alix Meyer, The White House in 2013: Tax Shelter from the Storm?164
Søren Christian Reimer, From the Political Wilderness to ‘Civil War’: The Republican Party during Obama’s First Term184
Károly Pintér, God’s Chosen Candidate: Mitt Romney and the Role of Religion in the 2012 Presidential Campaign204
Paulina Napierała, Barack Obama, Religion, and the Separation of Church and State224
John Bloom, The Renewed Importance of Intelligent Design250
PART THREE: MEDIA AND CULTURE IN AND ON CONTEMPORARY ELECTIONS AND POLITICS264
István Szokonya, U.S. Elections (Web) 2.0 – Can Romney Outdo Obama in Social Media?266
Anna Severse, The Synergy of Microtargeting and Social Media Unlocks the Code of the American Presidential Election 2012274
Bożena Pękala, A Comparison of U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Media Image in Time and Newsweek284
Maciej Turek, Paul Ryan and the Press300
Patrick Sadjak, Indecision 2012: Cluster to the White House Redux – U.S. Presidential Election, Satire, and the New Political Media316
Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel, Cowboys Go to Washington – Cowboy Culture in Presidential Politics328
Spasimir Domaradzki, Piotr Józefczyk, The Obama Administration and Human Rights: Between International PR and the American Values346
PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION354
Alf Tomas Tønnessen, Mitt Romney’s and Paul Ryan’s Rhetoric of Anti-Europeanism and American Exceptionalism364
Mateusz Bogdanowicz, To Conduct or Not to Conduct the World (Again): 2012 U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Dilemmas378
Dagmara Suberlak, Europe in the Politics of Barack Obama’s Administration392
Joost Baarssen, Europe Is Working in the United States: “Europe” and Anti-Europeanism in the 2012 Elections406
Wojciech Michnik, The United States’ Foreign Policy under Barack Obama’s Administration: An Early Assessment426
Notes about the Authors436

JolantaDaszyńska

Nowadaysthepresidentialfour-yeartermbeginsonJanuary20th(itwas

changedfromMarchbythe20thAmendment,ratiﬁedin1933).Tepresi-

dentbeginshisofcialdutieswithaninaugurationceremony.Traditionally

ittakesplaceonthestepsoftheU.S.Capitol,whereCongressmeets.Butthis

kindofceremonyinWashingtonD.C.beganin1801.Teﬁrsttwopresiden-

tialinaugurations,ofGeorgeWashington,tookplaceinNewYork,andthe

thirdinauguration,ofJohnAdams,inPhiladelphia,thoughthenewFederal

Cityhadalreadystartedtobebuilt.Tepresidentpubliclytakesanoathof

ofce,whichistraditionallyadministeredbytheChiefJusticeoftheUnited

States.SuchacustombeganwiththeelectionofTomasJeńerson.Previ-

ously,theformerpresidenthadinauguratedthenewone.ButwhenJeńerson

beatAdamsinthebattleforpresidency,AdamsleftownandChiefJustice

JohnMarshallwasthemasterofceremonies.

Weknowabouttheﬁrstpresidentialelectionsfrommemoirs,diaries,

newspapersandpaintings.For18th-centuryAmericans,bothpoliticiansand

thegeneralpublic,itposedagreatchallenge,somethingunknownandnew

intheirhistory.Terehadbeennopresidentpriortotheadoptionofthe

federalConstitution,sincetherehadbeennoneedforone.TeConstitution

establishedthepresidencyand,accordingtoitswording,thepresidenthadto

beelected.Americanswereobligatedtoelectapresident,knowingthatthey

werecreatinganewchapteroftheirhistory.

TeﬁrstpresidentialelectioninU.S.historytookplacefollowingtherati-

ﬁcationoftheConstitutionin1788.Terewasonlyonecandidate:George

Washington.

ArticleII,Section1,providedthatthestatelegislaturesshoulddecidethe

mannerinwhichtheirElectorswerechosen.Nonetheless,theelectionof

GeorgeWashingtonastheﬁrstpresidentoftheUSAwasanextraordinary

one.Why?BecauseofGeorgeWashingtonhimselfandthefameofhisname.

First,therewasnopresidentialcampaign.Secondly,nooneequaledWash-

ingtoninpopularesteem,andnopolitician,whateverhethoughtoftheCon-

stitution,wouldopposehimpersonally.Washingtonmighthaveknownthat

hewouldbeelected,anditiscertainthathewaswillingtoservehiscoun-

try-men.Hewasdescribedasamanofgoodcharacterandcompetence.His

reputationroseduringtheWarofIndependenceandtheConstitutionalCon-

vention.Duringdebateshewasanxiousforthereputationoftheprincipleof

self-government,whichhebelievedwaslinkedtothefateoftheAmerican

government.HispresenceduringtheConstitutionalConventionwasalmost

aguaranteeofitssuccess.Hewasasilent,big,square-shoulderedgentleman

withuafacemoldedinchilldignity”(Padover1953:10).Hewasamodelof

honesty,persistence,andcourage.

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