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That election in which the spoiler effect most clearly played out, with the Greens' Ralph Nader preventing Al Gore from winning Florida and New Hampshire
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2000
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That office, nominees and candidates to, are advantaged by having endorsement by one of the two main parties, large financial backing, being married, having an effectively organised team, having sound and relevant policies, and having oratorical skills and political experience
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Presidency
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Those three regions which are more inclined to support the Republican Party (Red States), alphabetically
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Mountains, Plains, and South
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A dominant Republican faction much rooted in the Christian Right, opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage, supporting tighter immigration controls, and a significant minority of which deny anthropogenic climate change, with members such as former Senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum
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Social Conservatives
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A 2012 even which caused much negative publicity for the NRA
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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
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That individual who usually wins a presidential election (when standing), thus dissuading some potentially strong challengers from standing, the only three modern examples not to do so (Ford, Carter, and H. W. Bush) all having faced internal opposition and generally failing economies
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Incumbent
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Those which function differently in the UK compared to the USA as a large proportion are trade unions with direct links to the Labour Party, and lobbying is aimed mostly at the executive (though this is diversifying with the newly assertive Supreme Court and House of Lords)
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Pressure Groups
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A primary in which any registered voter can vote in either party's primary, used in 11 states, such as Georgia and Vermont, criticised for allowing cross-over voting
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Open Primary
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An institution consisting of 538 electors who cast their ballots - though not necessarily in line with the popular vote - for the president in their state capitals, as established by the founding fathers
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Electoral College
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Pressure groups that campaign for a particular cause or issue, such as single-issue/interest groups, ideological groups, policy groups, and think tanks
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Causal Groups
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Presidential primaries used by some Republican primaries in which whoever gets the most votes wins all that state's delegates, as with Arizona for Trump in 2016
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Winner-Take-All Primaries
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Those which are criticised as a way of selecting presidential candidates as what it takes to win them does not necessarily translate into what it takes to be a good president
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Primaries
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A primary in which only a person registered with the party can vote for one of those party's candidates, used in 12 states such as New York and Florida
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Closed Primary
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A theory that political power rests with small groups who gain power through wealth, family status, or intellectual superiority
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Elitism
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A strong relationship between pressure groups, the relevant congressional committees, and the relevant government department, which attempts to achieve mutually beneficial policy outcomes
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Iron Triangle
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The multiethnic, less practicising religious, wealthy, liberal, and urban Democratic support base which believes in strong federal intervention and tax increased, is pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-same-sex marriage, and pro-Obamacare, and listens to CNN
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Blue America
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Those which are often less contested under an incumbent president except where the president is unpopular within the party in which case they may be more contested as occurred with George H. W. Bush, much damaging him in the subsequent election
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Primaries
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The electoral system used in Maine and Nebraska which awards presidential candidates votes on the basis of their performance in each congressional district, criticised as a reform of the Electoral College as it produced disproportionate results where candidates win districts with large margins which would have seen Mitt Romney win in 2012 on a minority
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Congressional District System
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That which affected the 2016 election in that Protestants and non-Hispanic Catholics favoured Trump (56% and 50%) while Jews, those of other religions, and those with no religion supported Clinton (71%, 62%, and 67%) as did Hispanic Catholics, a Republican improvement on 2012
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Religion
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That individual who overtook Barack Obama's formerly comfortable lead in the polls (though to little effect on election day) as a result of his much better performance in the first 2012 televised presidential debate
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Mitt Romney
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