CAS PO 111 Lecture : 7____

• School: Boston University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: CAS PO 111
• Professor: Graham Wilson

Document Summary

1980 kennedy vs. carter (between party fighting: very few people vote in the primaries primaries: elections to determine who the nominee will be, nominee is sent to national convention, used for congressional seats as well, election laws differ sometimes, only registered democrats can vote in the democratic primary and vice versa open primaries anyone can vote sometimes they"ll switch your registration (wi) you can change your registration back (nh) not tied to any party (wa/ca) mix and match, caucus system: meetings to decide on a nominee, ca: irrespective of party, the top 2 candidates run, dominated by professional politicians party machine . Makes it more likely for 3rd and 4th parties to get on the ballot: new zealand, germany % of votes in parliamentary system, god damn it, you can be yourself less pressure to conform to one party; splitting the party won"t kill it, cons.