... the Labor Day holiday in September but these campaigns rarely make a difference to which candidate wins because most of the electorate have already made up their minds and it is rare that a candidate who is struggling in the polls to win an election based on his/her campaign over those two months: "for the vast majority of citizens in America, campaigns do not function so much to change minds as to reinforce previous convictions."1 The US also hold elections for the House of Representatives and Congress; the elections for Congress are aimed to provide the people of the state or province where that Congressman is elected with the chance to have their more concentrated needs and agendas heard by the executive. In Britain we elect the party of our choice, be it Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem or other; the party that gains most votes wins power and holds the ...

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