GOVT 2306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Presidency Of Ronald Reagan, Proportional Representation, Voter Registration
20 Oct 2016
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People who identify with a particular party and vote for those candidates. Political parties: organization established to win elections. regularly. Assist voters in making electoral choices, influencing/campaigns. Provide a label for under which candidates can run/identify with. Parties tend to have weaker power in state level. Issues of local governments deal with creating jobs and safe districts. It"s not like abortion and same-sex marriage like national issues. Partisanship is not as important in running everyday issues. Partisan polarization: republicans are more conservative and. Means its harder for officials/parties to come to a consensus. Texas does not have a system of party registration. After voting in one primary, that is when they are labelled as the party so they don"t vote in the other primary. Parties hold primary elections to select candidates to run for office under that party. If several are running for party nomination and none receive the majority vote, the party will hold a runoff election.
