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AP U.S. Government 2.1 Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Mass Media. Recent elections show that party identification is what?
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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour
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Brought to you by party identification a cici for the
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weekends Recent elections show that party identification is what And
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here the potential answers it's like you identifying with a
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political party Got that Yeah we know we know labels
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are so overrated But in the case of political parties
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people usually tend to identify with a group of like
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minded folks which can help with raising money influencing policy
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and ruining thanksgiving Two recent elections show that party identification
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is a increasing well The u s government hasn't had
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a great run recently so people are a little hesitant
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to put all their votes in one political party basket
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So is out Have recent elections shown that party identification
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is see remaining stable Well the number of independent voters
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those claiming no party affiliation has increased dramatically over the
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past twenty to thirty years so we can cruise past
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sea as well Did the past few elections reveal that
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party identification is de favoring the republican party Well i'm
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not really the amount of voters identifying his republican has
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pretty settling declined over the last ten years just like
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any other party affiliation Maybe all the fuss about peanut
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allergies has grown to elephantine proportions Could party identification he's
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very depending on presidential candidates Well having a particularly charismatic
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or particularly boring candidate can certainly affect how we vote
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But in the last few elections people have been more
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likely to support those individual candidates rather than the party
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is a hole which means that recent elections show that
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party identification is be declining Some political scientists argue that
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we're in a period of de alignment which means that
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fewer and fewer people are identifying with a political party
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political spending through pacs political action committees rather than parties
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as well as the growth of the internet or do
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possible causes for this recent decline But if we were
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in charge well we just order a cookie cake and
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some punch to get things moving back in the right 00:02:07.89 --> [endTime] or left direction Ah
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