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Political Party

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An organized group that may include office holders, candidates, activists, and voters who pursue their common interests by gaining and excersising power through the electoral process

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Thomas Jefferson

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Principle drafter of the DOI; second VP and third president from 18011 to 1809. Cofounder of the democratic republican party

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Political Machine

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A party Organization that recruits voter loyalty with tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of control over member actvity

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Candidate centered politics

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Politics that focus n the candidates, their political issues and character rather than party affiliation

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Party Realignment

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Dramatic Shifts in Partisan preferences that drastically after the political landscape

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Critical Election

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An election that signals . party realignment through voter polarization around new issues and personalities

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Secular Realignment

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The gradual rearrangment f a party coalitions, based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system

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national convention

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A party meeting in the presidential election year for the purposes of nominating a presidential ticket and adopting a platform

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Delegate

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Role played by representative who vtes the way his or her consituents would want, regardless of personal opinions

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Superdelagate

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Delegate to the Democratic Party’s national convention that is reserved fora party official and who’s vote at the convention is unpledged to a candidate

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Donald J Trump

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The 45th president, a republican elected 2016; first president elected without prior political or military experience; experienced buisnessman

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National Party Platform

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A statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy gals of a political party, promulgated at the national convention

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Barack Obama

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First African American president, democrat, 44th president 2009-2017. Illinois Senator 2005-2008; member of Illinois senate 1997-2004

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Party Identification

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A CITIZENS attachment to a political Party based on issues, past experience or upbringing which tends to be a reliable indicator of likely voting choices

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Hillary Clinton

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First female major party candidate fr president off the Us, democratic, ran against Donald Trump 2016; secretary of stat2009-2013; senator NY 2001-2009 former first lady

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Proportional Representation

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A voting system that apportion legislative seats according to the percentage of the vote won by a particular political party

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Winner Takes All System

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An electoral system in which the party that receives at least one more vote than any other party wins election

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PArtisan polarization

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The presence of increasingly conflicting and divided viewpoints between the democratic and republican parties