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| organizations that exist to allow likeminded members of the population to group together and mabnify their individual voices into a focus promoting individual candidates and governmetn action |
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| the initial point of entry for those seeking involvement in politics as volunteers, organizers, or candidates |
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| state party organizations |
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| party organizations at the state level; |
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| state party organizations |
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| organize elections and provide the electoral college votes needed to win the presidency |
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| state party organizations |
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| supervise the various functions vital to state parties. |
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| an organizational style of local politics in which party bosses traded jobs, money, and favors for votes and campaign support |
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| national party organization |
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| party organization at the national level whose primary tasks include fundraising, distribution of information, and recruitment |
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| national party convention |
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| the national meeting of the party every four years to choose the ticket for the presidential election and write the party platform |
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| the statement of principles and policies;the goals that a party pledges to carry out if voters give it control of the government |
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| a candidates' sponsorship by a political party |
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| meeting of party adherents who gather to discuss, to deliberate, and finally to give their support to a candidate for president. |
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| a pre election that allows all members of a party, not just its leadership, to select the party's candidate for the general election in the fall |
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| a system in which the winner of the primary or electoral college vote receives all of the state's convention or electoral college delegates |
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| proportional representation |
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| a system of representation popular in Europe whereby the no of seats in the legislature is based on the proportion of the vote received in the election |
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| a system of conducting primary elections in which only citizens registered as members of a particular political party may participate in that party's primary |
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| a system of conducting primary elections in which citizens vote in whichever party's primary they choose |
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| the process by which most party primaries and caucuses are held early in the nomination schedule so that the majority of the delegate support is locked up early |
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| McGovern-Fraser Commission |
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| democratic party commission that after the 1968 national convention, opened up meetings and votes to a broad variety of party activists, made primaries rather than caucuses the common means of choosing convention delgates, weakened the power of party leaders, and set up rules to ensure that a wide range of party members could participate fully in all party operations |
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| delegates to the democratic national convention not bound to vote for any particular cnadidate; usually prominent members of the party or elected officials |
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| political action committees PACs |
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| committees formed as the fundraising and financial distribution arm of specific interest groups |
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| a political system in which five to ten or more parties regularly compete in elections, win seats, and have some chance of gaining power. poromoted by systems with proportional representation and characteristic of most democratic nations |
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| districts in which a seat goes to the candidate with the most votes. in this system, a small party, one that wins ten percent in every district across the nation, would fail to secure a single seat in the legislature. |
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| the group of 538 electors who meet separately in each of their states and the district of columbia on the first monday following the second wednesday in december after a national presidential election, their majority decision officially elects the president and vice president of the US |
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| a psychological orientation or longterm propensity to think positively of and vote regularly for a particular political party |
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| parties in the american system other than the democrats or republicans |
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