 Republicans
 Democrats
Conservative
Cut Taxes
Favor Big Business
Pro Life
Cuts environmental
spending
 Favor strict
sentencing for Crime
 Stronger in foreign
policy
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Favor small
government
 Pro Gun Ownership
 Increase defense
spending
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Liberal
Raise Taxes
Favor labor unions
Pro Choice
Increases
environmental
spending
Favor alternative
sentencing for
crimes
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Stronger in domestic
policy
Favor big
government
Anti Gun ownership
Decrease defense
spending
 Conservative
 Favor very
small
government
 Desire almost
no government
regulation.
 Very Liberal
 Favor saving
the
environment
and very little
else.
Formerly U.S.
Taxpayers Party
 In the political
middle
 Want
government
conducted by
the constitution

Founded by Ross
Perot in 1992
 Concerned
mainly with
building a strong
economy
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 Parties the only appeal to a small
section of parties are known as
splinter parties
 Splinter parties break away from
the major parties to focus on one
or a few issues.
George
Washington
 Abraham Lincoln
 Franklin
Roosevelt
 Thomas Jefferson
 Theodore
Roosevelt

James
Buchannan
 Warren Harding
 Franklin Pierce
 Andrew Johnson
 Millard Fillmore
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Must be at least 35
years old
Must be a natural
born U.S. citizen
Must be a legal
resident of the
state you are
running from.
1. Declare intention to
run
 2. Raise Moneyrunning for president
costs millions of
dollars.
 Mitt Romney spent
$20 million not
including donations
he received
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3. Campaign and
DebateCandidates debate
each other on TV
and travel around
the country
making speeches
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Run in primaries
A political primary is an election in
which republicans run against
republicans and democrats against
democrats for the nomination of their
political party for president.

Open Primary- A primary in which you may
vote for whichever party you choose.

Closed Primary- a primary in which you
must register for one political party and
you must vote for a candidate in that party
for the primary and general election.
Primary winners win
the delegates for that
state.
 At the party
convention delegates
cast their vote for the
person that won their
state. The candidate
with the most
delegates wins the
nomination

Nominees
choose a vice
president to run
with them.
 Candidates
campaign and
debate against
each other.
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Public opinion polls
ask people who
they will vote for.
Survey 100-1,000
people
Use mathematical
formula to
determine support
for each candidate.
 Election day is always the 1st
Tuesday after the 1st Monday in
November
 Never November 1, latest it can be
is November 8.
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When a candidate wins a state’s popular
vote the also win that state’s electoral
votes
The candidate with the most electoral
votes wins
270 electoral votes are needed to become
president.
California, Texas, Florida and New York
have the most electoral votes.
Federalist Era
1796-1824
Major PartyFederalists
 Minor Party- Anti
Federalists
 Major Party CoalitionAgrarian Interests
 Minor Party CoalitionSouthern Plantations
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Important PresidentsGeorge Washington,
Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison,
James Monroe
 End- Election of 1824
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
Andrew Jackson,
John Quincy
Adams, and Henry
Clay
Neither candidate
had a majority
Jackson won
popular vote

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
Clay uses his
influence to elect
Adams
Adams wins
Jackson spends the
next 4 years
plotting revenge
and founding The
Democratic Party
1828-1860
Major PartyDemocrats
 Minor Party- Whigs,
Democratic
Republicans
 Major Party CoalitionNorthern
industrialists

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Minor Party CoalitionSouthern Plantations
 Important PresidentsAndrew Jackson,
Zachary Taylor, James
Polk
 End- Election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln
elected, 1st
republican
president.
 Leads to
southern
secession and
the Civil War.
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1860-1892
Major PartyRepublicans
 Minor PartyDemocrats
 Major Party CoalitionBig Business
 Minor Party CoalitionNone

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Important PresidentsAbraham Lincoln
, Ulysses S. Grant,
Rutherford B Hayes

End- The election of
1892 and the 2nd term
of Grover Cleveland
1896-1932
Major PartyRepublicans
 Minor PartyDemocrats
 Major Party CoalitionBig Business
 Minor Party CoalitionLabor Unions
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Important PresidentsTheodore Roosevelt,
Woodrow Wilson,
Herbert Hoover
 End- The Great
Depression

1932-1968
Major PartyDemocrats
 Minor PartyRepublicans
 Major Party CoalitionUnions, Civil Rights,
National Defense
 Minor Party CoalitionBig Business


Important PresidentsFranklin Roosevelt,
Harry Truman, Dwight
Eisenhower, John F
Kennedy
 End- Election of
Richard Nixon in
1968.

1968- 2008
Major PartyRepublicans
 Minor PartyDemocrats
 Major Party Coalition- National
Defense


Minor Party CoalitionEnvironmental
Groups, Action Groups
Important PresidentsRichard Nixon, Ronald
Reagan, Bill Clinton,
George W. Bush
End- Election of 2008