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POLITICAL PARTIES

Recruit Candidates

Organize campaigns and elections

Hold conventions

Unite factions

Protects minorities

PARTY FUNCTIONS

Candidates need only a plurality of votes to be elected, not a majority. In other words, the one with the most votes wins.

This is why America has only 2 equally matched parties.

ELECTORAL SYSTEM

Democrats

Republicans

Independents

THE PARTIES

Democratic Party:Generally supports the

interests of labor and the poor.

Generally supports the interests of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.

Favors relatively high taxes and government spending.

Favors higher spending on social programs (like education, healthcare, and welfare) than on the military.

Republican Party:Generally supports

commercial and business interests.

Generally supports the interests of the Christian community.

Favors relatively low taxes and government spending.

Favors higher spending on the military than on social programs (like education, healthcare, and welfare).

PARTY PLATFORMS

Democratic Party:Supports abortion rights

and same-sex marriage.Supports restrictions on

campaign finance and gun ownership.

Supports liberal drug and immigration policies.

Supports investment in alternative energy sources to combat climate change.

Republican Party:Opposes abortion rights

and same-sex marriage. Opposes restrictions on

campaign finance and gun ownership.

Opposes liberal drug and immigration policies.

Rejects the existence of man-made climate change.

PARTY PLATFORM

WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?

WHICH PARTY WOULD YOU JOIN?

FORM YOUR OWN PARTIES.

NOW MERGE THEM.