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Why is are the terms government party and opposition party rarely used to describe the parties in the USA?
Much as Brazil, Ghana, Canada, Britain, most countries really, use these terms in these senses of that the party supplying the head of government is the governing or ruling party and the others are ...
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Presidency and Congress being different political parties
Between 1955-57, the president was Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican. But, at the same time, both the Senate and House were controlled by Democrats.
How difficult was it for the president to sign a bill ...
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Where On The Political Spectrum Do The Old US Political Parties Fall
I'm not a poly-sci major so I need some help to figure out a seemingly simple thing. I've been given a list of presidents and have to do some data visualizing with them. There is a list of parties, ...
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Has a sitting US president ever been denied their party's nomination for a second term?
Has there ever been an instance when a US president didn't get a second term because they failed to get his party's nomination? From the looks of it, there's nothing that could prevent a sitting US ...
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Who pays for the President's campaign trips?
Not specific to any one president or party but using Trump as the most recent example.
Trump has been on the road for weeks campaigning for the Republican Party midterm elections. I've searched ...
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Does it usually backfire if a presidential candidate challenges an incumbent from their own party? [duplicate]
How does it historically work out for the presidential nominee when they are challenging the incumbent of their own party?
Are there cases where this succeeded?
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Has a US President ever nominated a cabinet of half Democrats and half Republicans?
This was the spirit of Churchill's nominations as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during WWII in order to unite the country.
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Is there anything that functionally prevents a US President from switching parties?
For example, a Prime Minister is voted by the party, so if they were to switch parties they would not be the leader of the other party. They have a function within their party.
But is the party of ...
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Can I vote in the primary for one party and then vote for the other in the general? [duplicate]
Let's say there are 3 candidates (1, 2, 3) and two parties (A, B).
Candidate 1: is good and is in party A
Candidate 2: is OK but is in party B
Candidate 3: is horrible and in party A
If you vote ...
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What is the evidence that a secondary party primaries candidate can influence the rhetoric of the leader?
In the West Wing (Manchester Part II) we see Jed say about his running for the Presidency:
BARTLET: I got in it polling in the single digits. Hoynes had it locked up. I got in it to give some ...
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When and why did the American Republican Party become widely supported in the South?
The American Democrats and Republicans are often labelled with the colours blue and red respectively. However, the historical "blue states" and "red states" were once inverted from their current ...
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What is (GOP?) algorithm for proportional Presidential primary delegates?
From the results below, it's clear that there's some sort of cutoff, below which a candidate gets no delegates, even if proportionally they should have one or two. How is that cutoff determined?
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