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What power do minority parties have in state legislatures?
I live in a state where it is taken for granted that one party will be in the majority in the state legislature and the governor will always be a member of that party. The specific district I live in ...
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Why has Alpine County in California become so Democratic in the last few presidential elections?
Based on this picture of the 2020 Presidential election, most Northern California counties outside the coast tend to be Republican leaning. However, Alpine County has voted Democratic since 2004 as ...
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Are US state political parties required to nominate the most popular candidates in their local primaries/caucases? [closed]
Do US state political parties have the freedom to arbitrarily decide which candidate ends up the nominee? Does that restriction/freedom hold at the national party level as well?
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Are millennials and generation Z more politically conscious than previous generations?
When I was growing up, my generation (gen X) was rather apathetic in our youth. Politics was the boring stuff done up there with little bearing on what's happening down here. It was the realm of ...
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Why is the border the "bluest" part of Texas?
Maps such as this one show that some of the "bluest" counties in Texas are along the southern border (with Mexico).
The "border" is one of the most contentious wedge issues used by ...
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What Is The Actual Step-By-Step Informal Process of How A Regular Citizen Becomes A Congressmen?
In the case of the executive branch, there is an incredible difference between what someone needs to do/be to become president "on paper" (I.e, Being 35, being a natural-born citizen that ...
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How is a political party funded? Solely based on donations less than $3300 (maximum allowed)?
Where does the DNC/RNC (or any political party) get its money? Is it mostly from individuals donating who want to see change? If so, are those donations capped at $3300 per individual per election?
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Could the US become a multi-party democracy organically (without a change to the constitution)?
In many northern European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark) there is a large number of political parties and the government is always made up of a coalition of these because no single ...
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How common is it for US state political parties to ban association with Nazis?
Recently the Texas GOP has rejected a proposal to ban its party members from associating with Nazis.
My understanding is that this was an internal party resolution and not any type of legislation. I ...
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What kind of amendment can oblige multiple political parties, and repair the unintended two-party malfunction of the constitution?
The founding fathers did not foresee that the constitution would foster a two-party political system that is radical, inflexible and deadlocked. There is probably little political will to reform it ...
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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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Why the US does not have strong local parties except in Puerto Rico?
Often as a cause of two-party system in the US cited the first-past-the-post system. (see also Duverger's Law).
But theoretically this should not prevent having strong local state-level parties.
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Which districts in the Virginia state legislature held contested primaries for both parties in 2023?
In Virginia, there are primaries on June 20th for the state legislature. I am curious about which races are contested for both parties' primaries that are happening on Tuesday, a couple days after I ...
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Has a majority of one political party in one house of Congress ever voted in opposition to the same party in the other house in the same Congress?
Has there ever been a case where a majority of a political party votes one way on some bill in the Senate but a different way on the same bill in the House of Representatives?
For example, has a ...
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Are there studies on whether either the US left or right make more use of snarl words?
In my last question, I attempted to avoid any answer saying that one political party was more likely to abuse snarl words without proof as I deemed such an attack plausible and unconstructive to my ...
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