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Question 1

Barack Obama

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The first African American president of the United States, a Democrat, who served as forty-fourth president from 2009 to 2017. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008; member of the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

Question 2

Candidate-Centered Politics

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Election campaigns and other political processes in which candidates, not political parties, have most of the initiative and influence.

Question 3

Critical Elections

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A term from political science and political history describing a dramatic change in the political system.

Question 4

Delegate

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A person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.

Question 5

Donald Trump

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The forty-fifth president, a Republican, elected in 2016; first president elected without prior political or military experience; an experienced businessman.

Question 6

Hillary R. Clinton

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First female major party candidate for president of the United States, a Democrat, who ran against President Donald J. Trump in 2016. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013; New York senator from 2001 to 2009; former fist lady.

Question 7

National Convention

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A convention of a major political party, especially one that nominates a candidate for the presidency.

Question 8

National Party Platform

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A formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public’s support and votes about complicated topics or issues.

Question 9

Party Identification

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It refers to the political party with which an individual identifies.

Question 10

Partisan Polarization

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It refers to the cases in which an individual’s stance on a given issue, policy, or person is more likely to be strictly defined by their identification with a particular political party

Question 11

Party Realignment

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In the United States is when the balance of power between a country’s political parties changes greatly. Their electoral coalitions change dramatically. Sometimes, this happens when political parties die out or are created.

Question 12

Political Machine

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In U.S. politics, 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.

Question 13

Political Party

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An organized group of people with at least roughly similar political aims and opinions, that seeks to influence public policy by getting its candidates elected to public office.

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Proportional Representation

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An electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them.

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Secular Realignment

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An election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues. The gradual rearrangement of party coalitions, based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system.

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Superdelegate

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An unelected delegate who is free to support any candidate for the presidential nomination at the party’s national convention.

Question 17

Thomas Jefferson

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Principle drafter of the Declaration of Independence; second vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Cofounder of the Democratic-Republican Party.

Question 18

Winner-Take-All System

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The candidate who wins the most votes wins all the delegates at stake—or by proportional representation.