In 2019, One of the Many Candidates Who Announced a Bid

question 89

Multiple Choice

In 2019, one of the many candidates who announced a bid for the Democratic nomination for president was Mike Gravel, an 89-year-old former Alaska senator. Although Gravel was excluded from all debates and nearly every public opinion poll, and his campaign was run primarily by teenagers almost exclusively via Twitter, he was able to raise just over $200,000 before ending his campaign in August 2019. What is Gravel's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination an example of?

• A) the ability of a candidate to successfully campaign exclusively on the Internet
• B) the power of the Internet to raise money for a candidate's campaign
• C) the influence of social media on a candidate's presidential campaign
• D) the interest among Americans in fringe candidates during the nomination phase

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Radical Social Change

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