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| What the people think about a particular issue at a particular time. |
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| Interviews with sample of citizens that are used to thinking what the public is thinking. |
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| Unscientific surveys used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues and politics. |
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| coherent set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government held by groups and individuals. |
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| poll selection that gives each person in a group the same chance of being selected |
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| samples of 1000 to 15000 individuals and use a variation of the random sampling. |
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| polls taken for the purpose of providing information on an opponent that would lead respondents to vote against the candidate. |
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| continuous surveys that enable a campaign to chart its daily rise or fall in support. |
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| Polls conducted at selected polling places on Election Day. |
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| group of office holders, candidates, activists, and voters who identify with a group label and seek to elect to public office individuals who run under that label. |
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| office holder and candidates who run under a politcal party's banner |
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| workers and activists who staff the party's banner |
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| voters who consider themselves allied or associated with the party. |
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| a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state". |
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| selection of party candidates through the ballots of qualified voters rather than at party conventions |
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| acts removed the staffing of the bureaucracy from political parties and created a professional bureaucracy filled through competition. |
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| politics that focus on specific issues rather than a party, candidate or other loyalties. |
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| to vote for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election. |
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| group of interest that join together for the purpose of electing public officials. |
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| institutional collection of policy-orientated researchers and academics who are sources of policy ideas. |
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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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| citizen's personal affinity for a political party, usually expressed by his or her tendency to vote for candidates of that party |
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| tendency of third parties to arise with some regularity in a nominally two-party system. |
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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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