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- political party
- a group of people who seek to control the govt through the winning of elections and the holding of public office
- partisanship
- lawmaker who owes his/her first allegiance to his/her party
- two-party system
- a political system dominated by two major parties
- single-member district
- electoral district from which one person is chosen by the voters for each elected office
- plurality
- in an election, the number of voters that the leading candidate obtains over the next highest candidate
- bipartisan
- supported by two parties
- coalition
- temporary alliance of several groups who come together to form a working majority and so to control a govt
- ideological parties
- parties based on a particular set of beliefs, a comprehensive view of social, economic, and political matters
- electorate
- all the people entitled to vote in a given election
- political efficacy
- one\'s own influence or effectiveness on politics
- soft money
- money given to the state and local party organizations for voting-related activities
- hard money
- campaign money that is subject to regulations by FEC
- mandate
- the instructions or commandsa constituency gives to its elected officials
- straw vote
- polls that seek to read the public\'s mind simply by asking the same question of a large number of people
- lobbying
- protests,
- grassroots
- of or from the people, the average voters