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partisanship
an opportunity for each party to state its campaign themes and formally introduce the presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
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GOP
Republican party nickname since the 1870s
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nonpartisan elections
election where candidates run as individuals, without any party affiliation
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political socialization
education about how the government works and which policies one should support
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party system
the broad organization of US politics, compromising the two main parties
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party-in-government
candidates, officeholders, and their top staffers
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party organization
supports party’s candidates and elected officials
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party platform
party’s statement of purpose and its position on issues. Revised every four years
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party in the electorate
the largest component of a political party, drawn from the public at large
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party boss
senior figure in a party machine.
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party machine
party workers helped immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century, in return gain votes when they become naturalized citizens
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new deal
economic programs and reforms introduced between 1933 and 1936 and associated with the Franklin Roosevelt administration
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party identification
strong attachment to one political party
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straight-ticket voter
sticking with their party’s candidate’s right down the ballot
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split-ticker voter
votes for at least one candidate from each party
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base voters
tend to vote loyally for their party’s candidates
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GOP traditionalists
- they oppose feminism and show little love for big government or big business
- Coolidge and Eisenhower
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GOP libertarians
- oppose government social spending, regulation, and taxes. They are opposed to social conservatives with regard to gay rights
- oppose gun control as counter-productive
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GOP neoconservatives
interventionist foreign policy to promote democracy and defend Israel
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GOP fiscal conservatives
call for a large reduction in government spending personalized accounts for Social Security, free trade, and less regulation of the economy
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GOP moderates
some are for same-sex marriage and gay adoption, legal access to abortion, gun control laws, more environmental regulation and anti-climate change measures, fewer restrictions on legal immigration, a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants
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democratic progressives
Ending wars and occupation.Health care is a human right. Economic and social justice. Clean, fair and transparent elections. Stop global warming and environmental protection.Stop voter suppression. End mass criminalization
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democratic organized labor
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democratic third way proponents
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democratic civil rights caucus
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party caucus
a meeting of all House or Senate members of one or the other main party
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divided government
one house of Congress is controlled by a party different from that occupying the White House
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