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| What is a party? what do they do? |
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| an organization or group of people to gain political power; they recruit and nominate candidates, function as a loyal opposition when out of power, unify and organize the electorate, and provide a link between the people and their gov't |
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| What is the need for political parties? |
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| electoral organization, money, education, platform, identity, and simplify complex problems(democracy) |
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| Why do people use political parties? |
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parties are a recommended way of short cutting the vote
1) party/gov't: govenor(anyone in office) candidates
2) electorate: the voters, voters that have an ID w/a party
3) party organization: republicans&democrats |
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| What are the problems w/classifying a party? |
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| turnout, racial gerrymandering:race can't be the only factor, and split-ticket voting |
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| What are the characteristics of states being democratic? |
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1)counties that have a university
2) Majority-min.
3) Urban centers |
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| What is the membership of deep south? |
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Mississippi
Louisiana
Georgia
S.Carolina
Alabama |
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| What is the membership of teh peripherial south? |
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Tenn.
N.Carolina
Florida
Texas
Arkansas
Virginia |
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| What are the two states that can be added to the deep south and peripherial south membership? |
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| Kentuckey and Oklahoma because of cultural reasons |
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| What southern states have republican govenor? |
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| Virginia, South Carolina,Georgia,Florida, Alabama,Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas |
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| What are the 11 states of the old confederacy? |
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| Virginia, North Carloina,Georgia, Kentuckey, Oklahoma, Texas,Louisiana,Alabama,Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas |
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| Which southern states have democratic control legislatures? |
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| Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas |
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| what is the most commonly used method to measure / identify parties? |
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| Based on this method, the Gallup Organization reported that 24 states may be considered Democratic and 4 states Republican. The remaining states are considered "competitive" states, that is, the marginal difference between Republican and Democratic self-identifiers is less than 10%. |
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| What was the epitome of a political machine in the U.S.? |
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| Tammany Hall which was ran by William Tweed |
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| a party leader who uses patronage, government contracts amd access to power to dictate policy |
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| How is a party chair elected? |
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| by the party's central commitee or delegates to a party convention |
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| What is the significance of a vice chair? |
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| by party outlaws often must be the opposite gender from the party chair |
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| Who do party leaders answer to? |
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| central commitee which consists of 20 or more persons elected or chosen for an elected term |
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| The day to day operations are usually carried out by the party's.... |
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| What is the downfall of nonpartisian local elections? |
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| its more difficult for less-affluent and less-educated citizens to participate |
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| is a meeting of party leaders and legislators to discuss party policy |
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| redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census, to accomodate pop. shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in pop. |
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