Edexcel Politics 9. US Politics: Democracy and Participation

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That process proposed improvements to which include weighting votes in favour of those cast by elected politicians, allowing candidates to select their own delegates, having regional primaries (i.e. the South voting all on one day), etc.

The only two independent Senators as of February 2020 - though both caucus with the Democrats - representing Maine and Vermont respectively

The party which Donald Trump identified with between 2001 and 2007, being a friend of the Clintons

That body which is especially conducive to pressure group activity as committees are autonomous, party discipline is weak, and power is decentralised providing many access point

An agreement currently adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia constituting 196 Electoral College votes to award all their votes to the winner of the popular vote, being activated when its signatories constitute an absolute majority of Electoral College votes

The commission established by the Democrats after their 1968 presidential election defeat which recommended reforms to the presidential nomination and election process away from elite state party conventions to presidential primaries

The socially conservative evangelical Protestant Southern states which largely support the Republicans

The relationship between religious attendance and voting Republican

Those which function differently in the USA compared to the UK as lobbying is aimed mostly at Congress though also notably at the judiciary more than in the UK

A Tuesday in February or early March when a number of states coincide their presidential primaries and caucuses in an effort to gain influence in the candidate selection process

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That at general elections the trend in which had been downward from 1960 to 1996 after which it increased from 51.4% to 62.3% in 2008, dropping again to 54% in 2016

A 1993 act that mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers, strongly opposed by the NRA

The gap between the support given to a candidate by men and by women, particularly pronounced in 2016 with a 13% lead by women over men for Hillary Clinton and an 11% lead by men over women for Trump, slightly higher than in previous elections

The only US President to have had no prior political or military experience

That individual the principal conflict within the Republican Party has been whether to unite around or not

A UK campaigner who brought cases against the government in the Supreme Court regarding Article 50 and the proroguing of Parliament

A 103 person growing Congressional Caucus comprising the core of the moderate Democrats, supporting economic growth, a balanced budget, and some 'necessary' limitations on civil liberties, Bill Clinton often being identified as part of the faction

That body the vote of which is announced by votes being sent to the Vice President who then counts and announces them before Congress unless there is no absolute majority in which case the House and Senate elect the President and Vice President respectively on an absolute majority as last occurred in 1824

Those that have taken the form of roundtable discussions, direct audience questions, press questions, and moderated debates

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