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Political Parties

Political Parties. Continued. Functions of Political Parties. Nominate Candidates Inform Voters Ensure candidates are qualified Help govern in Congress and State Legislatures Act as watchdogs especially of officials of other parties. Democrats vs. Republicans.

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Political Parties

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  1. Political Parties Continued

  2. Functions of Political Parties • Nominate Candidates • Inform Voters • Ensure candidates are qualified • Help govern in Congress and State Legislatures • Act as watchdogs especially of officials of other parties

  3. Democrats vs. Republicans • Commonly portrayed as a donkey • First used by Pres. Jackson in early 1800s • People said he was “stubborn like a donkey” • Cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited with designing the donkey

  4. Democrats vs. Republicans • Cartoonist Thomas Nast is also credited with designing the elephant • Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion’s skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo • One of the animals was an elephant, labeled “the Republican vote”

  5. Third Parties • Ideological parties: set of beliefs on social, economic, political issues (Socialist, Communist) • Single –Issue parties: one public-policy matter; usually short-lived. “Free-Soil Party”, “Right to Life” Party, “Prohibition Party” • Economic protest parties – economic discontent • Populists, “Green Back” Party • Splinter Parties: split from a major party • “Bull Moose” Progressive • Dixie-crat Party • Green Party • Reform Party

  6. Party Organization • National Conventions • Serve to nominate candidates for President • Party Platform • ideas, beliefs, programs of the party (voted on at the Nat’l Convention) • Party Plank • Individual statements (beliefs) in the party platform

  7. Comparing Platforms • Comparing Party Platforms • use the ARTICLES to complete the chart comparing the Democratic and Republican platforms / planks on major issues • The Republicans, Then and Now • Use the article to complete the chart that looks at how the Republican party planks have changed since 1980

  8. Political Party Project • Review the Project Calendar with your group members • Carefully read the PLATFORM rubric • Begin working on your Party Platforms with your group

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