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| What is meant by the term "cross-pressured"? |
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| You have a representative or politician whose voters voted for other party in the last presidential election. That makes him or her a cross pressured member |
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| After one year in office, according gallop survey figures, Barack Obama is on pace to become the most ______ president. What record is he about to break? |
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1. Polorizing
2. Polorization Record. Barack Obama is on pace to become the most polorazing president ever. |
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| Provide a working definition of political parties. |
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| A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions. Parties often espouse an expressed ideology or vision bolstered by a written platform with specific goals, forming a coalition among disparate interests. |
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| What is an example of a "cross-pressured" member? |
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| Both senators from Arkansas are cross pressured because they come from a state that voted for John McCain. |
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| Provide a working definition of political parties. |
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| A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions. Parties often espouse an expressed ideology or vision bolstered by a written platform with specific goals, forming a coalition among disparate interests. |
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| What are some activities or additional things that political parties do? |
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1. Raise Money
2. Political Social Symbol
3. Recruit candidates |
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| Who won the Massachusettes senator seat in the 2010 election? |
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| What kind of obstacles does the Republican party Crist and Rubio potentially face in the upcoming Florida election? |
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Divisive Primaries
A tense division could be created |
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| Why were the results from Massachusetts special elections so shocking? |
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1. Largely the Kennedy seats uninterrupted since 1952 (First Republican elected since 1972)
2. Only 12% of the people are Republicans
3. There are only 5 Republican Senators out of 40 |
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| According to the Hershey text, there are 3 interacting parts or dimensions of a political party. What are they? |
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1. Party in Government
2. Party Organization
3. Party Electorate |
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| According to the Hershey text, there are 3 interacting parts or dimensions of a political party. Which one is Barack Obama? |
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| According to the Hershey text, there are 3 interacting parts or dimensions of a political party. Which one is Nancy Pelosi? |
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| According to the Hershey text, there are 3 interacting parts or dimensions of a political party. Which one is Martha Coakley. |
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| According to the Hershey text, there are 3 interacting parts or dimensions of a political party. Which one are "you"? |
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| According to the Hershey text, there are 3 interacting parts or dimensions of a political party. Which one is Michael Steele? |
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| According to the Hershey text, there are 3 interacting parts or dimensions of a political party. Which one is the GSW College of Republicans? |
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| What may be the principle difference between political parties and other structural interest groups? The main difference. |
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| Parties are fundamentally electoral organizations. |
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| In us history there have been instances where there are no parties or lacked parties. What are they? |
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1. Era of Good Feelings (1820-1824) – Everyone was the same party
2.Inaugural period (1789-1792) Washingtons first term
3. Articles of Confederation (1776-1789)
4. Texas Republic
The Confederacy |
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| According to the James Reichly text. Identify 3 reason for their oppositions to parties. |
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1. Washington was concerned about sectionalism with partisanship
2. Any sort of popular movement of a party that could create policy agendas to go against the wealth, attack property.
3. Parties might end of becoming a corrupting force or lead to movements centered on personality. Politics might turn into personality contest and people could be lead astray by crafty politicians. |
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| Identify the first two American parties. |
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1. Federalists
2. Democratic-Republicans |
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| According to the McKitrick article. Identify why parties made a difference? |
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1. It gave Lincoln a viable source of support
2. Parties give people a sense of identity, loyalty, etc.
- example – if you support the war, then you vote republican
If you vote against the war, then you vote democrat
3. They provide an organized voice for the opposition |
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| Davis’s Presidential Challengers. |
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1. Cobb
2. Toombs
3. Stephens |
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| Davis’s Presidential Challengers. Which one had an alcoholic problem? |
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