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| An organized effort by office holders, candidates, activists, and voters to pursue their common interests by gaining and exercising power through the electoral process |
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| Candidate-centered Politics |
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| Politics that focuses on the candidates, their particular issues, and character rather than party affiliation |
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| Dramatic shifts in partisan preferences that drastically alter the political landscape |
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| An election thet signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues and personalities |
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| A party meeting held in the presidential election year for the purposes of nominating a presidential and vice presidential ticket and adopting a platform |
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| Delegate to the Democratic Party's national converntion that is reserved for a party official and whose vot at the convention is unpledged to a candidate |
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| A statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a political party usually promulgated at the national convention |
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| A citizen's personal affinity for a political party usually expressed by a tendency to vote for the candidates of that party |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| A voting system that apportions legislative seats according to the percentage of the vote won by a particular political party |
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| An electoral system in which the party that receives at least one more vote than any other party wins the election |
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