for my government class we have to run for president of the united states. what are some good campaign ideas?

Answer 1

Run on the platform that you and your cabinet will:

1. Accept minimum wage
2. Will serve the people and not yourselves and special interests.
3. End war
4. Give some actual meaning to the term Homeland Security by SECURING our Border!

Answer 2

stand up go to the podium read this preamble

http://www.lp.org/

As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.

We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.

Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.

In the following pages we have set forth our basic principles and enumerated various policy stands derived from those principles.

These specific policies are not our goal, however. Our goal is nothing more nor less than a world set free in our lifetime, and it is to this end that we take these stands.

Statement of Principles

I. Individual Rights and Civil Order

1. Freedom and Responsibility
2. Freedom of Communication
3. Freedom of Religion
4. Property Rights
5. The Right to Privacy
6. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
7. Conscription
8. Reproductive Rights
9. Sexuality and Gender

II. Trade and the Economy

1. Government Debt
2. Corporate Welfare, Monopolies & Subsidies
3. Public Services

III. Domestic Ills

1. Crime and Victimless Crime
2. The War on Drugs

IV. Foreign Affairs

1. Immigration
and here are some points to cover

Answer 3

Do what is being done successfully already. Look at what Ron Paul's campaign is doing. He started out with maybe 1% liking him in January (and the balance mostly didn't even know who he was to begin with). He's gaining traction fast (he's second now in cash on hand because donations are up) and he is #1 on the Internet. He's doing all the right things and that's where you want to be especially if all your classmates start out with equal funding in your class campaign simulation (in which case you'll trounce your classmates!). Ron Paul started out with almost no funding and look what he's accomplished in a few short months! If you go to www.ronpaulhq.com (the unofficial website) you'll find a lot of useful links that will help you gather information in your campaign quest. Best of luck!

Answer 4

cut corporate and personal income tax. transform welfare into a short term "help me out" program and promise to change America's sense of entitlement. Take back America and promise that no other country can own U.S ultrastructure or any company that can directly affect the economy, military or an educational institute. adopt the policy that you will not try to run the legislative branch of our Government and that you wont let them make decisions for the executive branch. promise to make states accountable for their territories and them less dependent on the Federal government. finally make it clear and without any wavering at all that your first responsibility will be protecting Americans and their Constitution at any cost. if you commit to these ideas you will win in 49 of the fifty states. these are proven commitments and put Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Reagan in the White House.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

School vouchers.

Healthcare vouchers, with tax breaks for businesses that fund them, although not required.

You use your voucher as a 100% pass for the government-run version of the appropriate service, or to defray some of the cost for private services.

This way, everyone is covered for both healthcare and education, without government dominating and fully controlling those industries.

In fact, government would have to do a good job to be competitive or you might take your voucher elsewhere. And private industries, especially healthcare, couldn't act as a frickin cartel when they are supposed to compete with one another and keep prices attractive. If they shot prices through the roof, you'd just hand your voucher to public services and get care there.

It'd be a win-win for capitalists and socialist alike.

Answer 7

The number one problem in U.S. politics today is the fact that candidates and parties, to raise the funds they need to run for office (or run candidates for office) have turned control of the government over to private corporate interests that are not aligned with the interests of the US and its people, but are aligned instead with taking as much money out of the US economy and its people as possible, for their private gain. The "failures" of government are not failures at all. In Iraq, whatever "failure" you think is taking place is not a failure at all for the corporations profiting from lengthy war (especially a never-ending war on terror); "failure" of our educational system controlled by the US is not a failure to the same controlling interests when they have been able to dumb down the U.S. citizens to be unable to defend their democracy from the takeover or even recognize that the takeover has occurred. "Failure" in Louisiana was only for the persons living there; and persons controlling the US were able to steal the land, get rid of the low-value tenants and owners, and make the land available for more valuable purposes. You think that the Bush Administration is bumbling along, but it is not. It is achieving its goal of stealing the country from its citizens and residents and has an even higher public acceptance (of about 30%) than the Democratic Party (somewhere in the low 20's).
Now, if you wanted to do something about this, you would naturally gravitate to 100% campaign financing for persons running for any federal or state or local election. I have prepared a proposed law for NYC which would create such 100% financing. See my website at www.lawmall.com/NYCBallotInitiatives Also, you should look at my website when I ran for attorney general in NY in 2006 (very unsuccessfully): www.carlperson4NYAG.com Also, look at my website for persons wanting to run for local office anywhere in the US - www.lawmall.com/electionissues and while you're at it you might be interested in my www.e-listparty.org and www.americanjobsparty.org. While you're still thinking about your future, you might be interested in looking at (downloading) and reading my FREE book Self-Employment - To Avoid the Evil Economic Trio of Outsourcing, Globalization and Declining Standard of Living, at http://www.lawmall.com/carlpersonforNYattorneygeneral/Sx01.pdf - Finally, you should look at the various other proposed local statutes I have prepared for NYC at www.lawmall.com/NYCBallotInitiatives - which basically shows how voters do have an ability to override their local unresponsive politicians, and who knows, if enough voters do this in enough towns, villages and cities in NYS perhaps reform will spread to other states and then upward into the federal political system before it is too late.
I hope this gives you some insight into politics and the problems caused by systemic political corruption.

Answer 8

Look up some of the current candidates and see what their positions are on various issues. From there, decide who or what you do or don't agree with, and use that as a basis. From there, you can "tweak" the ideas to what you think they ought to be, or whatever you think might be good solutions or policies. Good luck, sounds like a fun project!

Answer 9

How about running on the idea of self-reliance. No more handouts from the government to anyone that can walk and talk. No more food stamps, subsidized rent, heat or food. No free medical care. No work; no eat. No one deserves anything from the taxpayers just because they are breathing and usually breeding.

Answer 10

Promise to dump the IRS and basically be a constitutionalist,
pretty much adopt the platform of Ron Paul.