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This book discusses the words and pictures that constituted coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign on ABC and CNN. It addresses the implications of the news product for the viewing audience and the impact of the forces that create television news on the political system.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Under the President's Clothes -- How We Respond to the Message -- Where We Get the Message -- How We Feel About the Political World -- Of Politics and Governance -- Conclusion -- 2 Two Hundred Years of Politics and Reporting -- From Party Press to Penny Press -- Candidates or Products? -- Leaders or News Managers? -- Conclusion -- 3 A War of Words: Coverage of Politics and the Politics of Coverage -- Political Parties: Missing in Action -- Reporters: The Pen as Sword -- Campaign Advisers: Soldiers of Fortune -- The Public: Prisoners of War? -- Conclusion -- 4 Presidential Governance and Other Fantasies -- The President: Impotence Despite Omnipotence -- Congress: Gridlock Amid Posturing -- Interest Groups: Bargaining for Self-Gain -- Conclusion -- 5 What About Us? -- Real Variety or More of the Same? -- Incentive to Change? -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index

chapter Introduction Of Elephants and Donkeys, Candidates and Institutions, Patriots and Progressives -- chapter 1 Political Parties in an American Setting -- chapter 2 The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Party Politics -- chapter 3 Party Organizations in the Twenty-First Century -- chapter 4 Nominating Presidents in a Time of Trump -- chapter 5 Party Brand Loyalty and the American Voter -- chapter 6 Parties and Social Media -- chapter 7 Campaign Finance and Transitional Political Parties -- chapter 8 Elected Officials and the New Partisanship -- chapter 9 Third Parties in the Trump Era.

From the early demise of Trent Lott at the hands of bloggers to the agonized scream of Howard Dean; from Daily Kos and the blogosphere to the rise of Twitter and Facebook, politics and new media have co-existed and evolved in rapid succession. Here, an academic and practitioner team up to consider how new and old media technologies mix with combustible politics to determine, in real time, the shape of the emerging political order. Our political moment shares with other realigning periods the sense that political parties are failing to address the public interest. In an era defined by the collapse of the political center, extreme income inequality, rapidly changing demography, and new methods of communicating and organizing, a second-generation online progressive movement fueled by email and social media is coming into its own. In this highly readable text, the authors-one a scholar of Internet politics, the other a leading voice of the first generation netroots-draw on unique data and on-the-ground experience to answer key questions at the core of our tumultuous politics. How has Internet activism changed in form and function? How have the left and right changed with it? How does this affect American political power?

"American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties in the United States. The book places the American party system into a framework designed around the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. It argues that the two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement on the key values of freedom, individual rights, and equality of opportunity, but they disagreed-often vehemently-over how to implement these ideals into a form of governance. Hamilton wanted to marry freedom to a strong, active federal government with an energetic President who would act on behalf of all citizens. Jefferson believed that freedom should be married to local civic virtue with governmental responsibilities placed primarily at the local level. Today, Hamiltonian Nationalism finds its home in the Democratic Party, while Republicans have espoused Jeffersonian Localism since 1964. In addition to this historical framework, American Political Parties examines a range of topics, including marketing and social media, campaign finance, reforms in the presidential nominating process, political demography, and third parties. In this new edition (previously published as Party On!), the authors reflect on the future of the parties in the wake of the 2020 election"--