Chapter 9 example #73068

Political parties provide guideposts for citizens and politicians alike by helping to organize the political world and simplify complex policy debates

Political parties provide guideposts for citizens and politicians alike by helping to organize the political world and simplify complex policy debates

Internal mobilization occurs when political conflicts prompt officials and competing factions within government to mobilize popular support. External mobilization takes place when a group of politicians outside government organizes popular support to win governmental power.

An ideal candidate will have an unblemished record and the capacity to raise enough money to mount a serious campaign

The typical organization of American Parties are usually committees made up of a number of active party members.

The national delegates, as a group nominate the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates, draft the party's campaign platform for the presidential race and approve changes in the rules and regulations governing party procedures.

Presidential candidates have been chosen by winning enough delegate support in sate primary elections and caucuses.

Under the new rules, state delegations to the Democratic Convention were required to include women and members of minority groups in rough proportion to those groups' representation among the party's membership in that state.

A platform is a party document, written at a national convention that contains party philosophy, principles, and positions on issues.

The essential functions of the DNC and the RNC include raising campaign funds for party candidates, head off factional disputes within the party and endeavor to enhance the party's media image

527 committees are nonprofit independent groups that receive and disburse funds to influence the nomination, election or defeat of candidates. These committees can raise as much money as they want as long as they do not associate with formal party organizations and inform the public to increase voter turnout

When the party controls the White House, the party's national committee chair is appointed by the president

A political machine is a strong party organization who were led by bosses which controlled party nominations and patronage.

The Republican Party supports maintaining high levels of military spending cuts in social programs, tax relief for upper-income voters, tax incentives for businesses and the social agenda. The Democratic Party supports social welfare spending, national health care, cuts in military spending, increased regulation of business and variety of consumer and environmental programs

The Republican Party is the majority party in Congress while the Democratic Party is the minority party presently.

Party control of Congress allows for unified views throughout the government in order to pass laws, change policies, etc.

Soft money is the money contributed directly to political parties and other organizations for political activities that is not regulated by federal campaign spending laws; in 2002 federal (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act) law prohibited unregulated donations to national party committees.

It is created from the influences in their life and the political knowledge they have gained. Party identification is like brand loyalty as it is hard to switch.

Party activists are partisans who contribute time, energy and effort to support their party and its candidates. All they do is think about their party

Recently, more people have become independent from party identifications. Republicans have around 25 percent, Democrats have around 32 and Independent has around 38 percent.

Different races and ethnicities have different views as they come from different backgrounds

Different genders have different views as they come from different political angles.

The Gender gap is a distinctive pattern of voting behavior reflecting differences in view between women and men. More women supported Obama with a 10 percent difference in 2012.

Different religions have different views as they come from different regions and bear unique ideals and beliefs ahead of them.

George W. Bush won the White born again religious vote in 2004. And they voted republican again in 2008

The Upper income class usually identified as Republicans while low income went with Democrats. In that scenario they would be Democratic.

A person's political ideology affects their party identification by matching their ideals with the party. Conservatives are more Republicans while Liberals are more Democrats.

Historically region identifies with party identification. The south and Midwest are more Republican while the west and Northern states are Democratic.

Older people tend be more conservative while younger voters tend to more liberal.

The first two parties in the United States were the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans. The Federalists favored manufacturing and war tariffs while the Republicans favored free trade and pro agricultural interests.

It is the Democratic Party that came to be the modern one we know today. But back when there was only one party, there were many internal conflicts.

The Democratic Part regained its political strength when the Populist Party merged with them in 1896

Republicans managed to control heavily populated states and confined the Democrats to the south. For the next 36 years, the Republican Party would be the majority party

The New Deal Coalition was composed of unionized workers, upper-middle class intellectuals and professionals, southern farmers, Jews, Catholics and African Americans.

The Republican Party dominated American politics from the 1860s to the 1920s.

GOP stands for Grand Old Party. Conservative Religious groups put an effort to influence the Republican Party.

An electoral realignment is the point in history when a new party supplants the ruling party, becoming in turn the dominant political force; in the United States, this has tended to occur roughly every 30 years. These elections are when Jackson took over, Lincoln took over, etc.

Divided government is the condition in American government wherein the presidency is controlled by one party while the opposing party controls one or both houses of Congress.

The Democratic Party was the dominant force in politics from 1828-1860

Third parties are not very viable as they always tend to lose in the election. In history they tend to represent the minority groups that neither party presents.

These parties were all third parties that did not have their voiced heard in either other party. Often these die out when the other parties adopt their policies.

They would have much less influence on the people that way.

It is usually hard for third parties as they are going up against already established parties with many different groups that support them.