Politics in the USA, Sixth Edition

70 The two-party system structure of Southern society? The reaction of the white community was to create a political system that ...

The two-party system 71 Democrats in the South began to erode. It had become clear that the Demo- cratic Party at the national l ...

72 The two-party system began to see more and more black Democrats as mayors of important cities, such as Atlanta and New Orlean ...

The two-party system 73 Further reading Bibby, J.F. (2002) Politics, Parties and Elections in America, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. B ...

4 Politics and elections The structure of the American party system reflects the decentralisation of authority under the Constit ...

Politics and elections 75 and the House of Representatives take place every two years, one-third of the Senate and the whole of ...

76 Politics and elections Presidential primaries The National Conventions (nominate presidential and vice-presidential candidate ...

Politics and elections 77 didates more open and democratic, but the belief in the democratic character of the convention system ...

78 Politics and elections In response five of the New England states held ‘Yankee primaries’ on the same day in early May, in or ...

Politics and elections 79 If the dominant leadership of the state party is opposed strongly to a leading contender in the presid ...

80 Politics and elections cratic nomination: Senator Paul Tsongas from Massachusetts, Governor Bill Clinton from Arkansas, Senat ...

Politics and elections 81 House of Representatives for Missouri and Wesley Clark, a former General in the US Army, who had serve ...

82 Politics and elections politics are not free from these things, they have declined considerably in importance. The power of t ...

Politics and elections 83 selected by conventions at county level or by ad hoc meetings of party mem- bers. In earlier times the ...

84 Politics and elections other minority groups. But the reforms had unforeseen effects. The number of states operating presiden ...

Politics and elections 85 lenge was weak and had little hope of success, and in 1944 it was trivial. In the nineteenth century a ...

86 Politics and elections to Republican politicians that Goldwater’s bid for the presidency was lost, many of them withdrew into ...

Politics and elections 87 aldine Ferraro in 1984 as the first woman candidate for the vice-presidency clearly represented an att ...

88 Politics and elections popular election. Today the Electors are chosen by popular vote in November, but in law it is still th ...

Politics and elections 89 margin of Electoral votes, and the unpledged slate that won in Mississippi cast their votes for Senato ...