POLS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: John Tower, George W. Bush, Texas Towers
20 Sep 2016
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Partisanship in texas is because of texas traditional politics. National party organization affect state and local parties. Alignment is the grouping of one political group with another. That extends over several presidential elections, regardless of the person. Does a population change from one party to another, and does that stay the same. Religion, social class, and etc. all become homogenous in the party they choose. Key argued that party alignments stretched over a long time. Long term changes, we do not see the gradual changes only the rapid spike and change. People tend to form their ideas and political parties at an early age. People make their decision at an early age. A lot like religion, they stay the same unlikely there will be a conversion. Doesn"t happen to large segments of the population. The targets for parties it the new or young voter.
