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Warm Up- Find your new seat!

Warm Up- Find your new seat!. My desk. Door. Platform. Express the party’s principles, beliefs, and position on important issues What will the party do if it wins?. National Committee. Each political party has representatives from each state Raise fund, organize conventions. Precinct.

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Warm Up- Find your new seat!

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  1. Warm Up- Find your new seat! My desk Door

  2. Platform • Express the party’s principles, beliefs, and position on important issues • What will the party do if it wins?

  3. National Committee • Each political party has representatives from each state • Raise fund, organize conventions

  4. Precinct Election districts Holds specific number of voters

  5. Primary Elections • How candidates from major parties are nominated • DIRECT PRIMARY- voters choose candidates to represent each party in a general election • CLOSED PRIMARY- only the declared members of a party are allowed to vote for that party’s nominees • OPEN PRIMARY- voters don’t have to declare their party to vote

  6. Scenario • Quinn wants to vote for Everett who is a Republican, but she is unable to because she declared herself a democrat. Which type of primary would this be an example of?

  7. Scenario • Lanae wants to vote for Trey who is a Republican and she is able to because she did not have to declare her party. Which type of primary would this be an example of?

  8. Quick Write • Why do you think people support closed primaries over open?

  9. For candy…… • What does GOP mean?

  10. Focus Question What role do political parties play in shaping foreign and domestic policy?

  11. We are continuing our research today • You need to have: • Republican domestic/foreign views • Democrat domestic/foreign views • Third party domestic, foreign views (if applicable) • You are finding propaganda which is put out by the different political parties. Put this into a word document, labeling each which party it is associated with and what type of policy they are addressing and how they are addressing that policy. You need to have a total of 8 propaganda examples and explainations.

  12. This propaganda would be associated with the Republican party. The issue they are addressing is health care and how Obamacare is essentially not going to take care of you as it promises.

  13. Writing Assignment In your first paragraph, you are to answer the focus question: What role do political parties play in shaping foreign and domestic policy? ( Think about the use of propaganda which you worked with today and the differing views each party holds.) In your second paragraph paragraph What are the benefits of having a two-party system opposed to having a one party system?

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