Campaign Slogans Quotes
She improved the economy considerably but was stuck in a socialized economic ideology that inhibited major private sector growth, without which it is impossible to eliminate poverty and with which excessive greed can also produce poverty.
Some historians credit Mark Hanna, McKinley's Campaign Manager with the authorship.
Debbs had been jailed for speaking out against the First World War. The Espionage Act forbade anyone from criticizing the war effort. (See {585905}). Later it was to be declared unconstitutional. However, Debbs had gotten more than 5 percent of the vote in 1912, competing against Wilson, Taft and Teddy Rosevelt. (There were 2 “third party candidates” in that election.) So Debs ran again in 1920. However, he was in jail. So he used the fact as a slogan. Amazingly, he actually obtained over 3 percent of the vote without ever leaving his jail cell. Later, President Warren G. Harding not only pardoned Debbs, but entertained him at the White House the next day.
The '44 referred to the 1844 election of James K. Polk as president.
In the late 1950s British Prime Minister adopted the line to trumpet his accomplishments to the British electorate. President Lyndon Johnson revived the slogan in the 1960s and used it on many occasions.
The problem for McCain was that many of the Bush supporters did not want change, and the opponents did not believe that McCain and the other Republican members of Congress really wanted reform and change from their policies of the recent past. McCain lost to Barack Obama.
