How do party delegates and party voters differ

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How do party delegates and party voters differ?

• Party delegates are more conservative than party
  voters
• Party delegates have become more conservative
  over time while party voters have become more
  liberal
• Republican delegates are more likely than
  Republican voters to support some liberal
  ideology
• Democratic delegates are more liberal than
  Democratic voters
• Delegates closely mirror the ideology of their
  partys voters

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How do party delegates and party voters differ?

• Party delegates are more conservative than party
  voters
• Party delegates have become more conservative
  over time while party voters have become more
  liberal
• Republican delegates are more likely than
  Republican voters to support some liberal
  ideology
• Democratic delegates are more liberal than
  Democratic voters
• Delegates closely mirror the ideology of their
  partys voters
• Why?
• Choice (A) is correct for the Republican Party,
  but not the Democrats.
• Choice (B) also cannot maintain consistency for
  both parties. Choice
• (C) suggests that delegates are closer to the
  center than the voters are
• the opposite is true. Choice (E) is false
  because delegates are party
• activists they embrace the core values of the
  party more strongly than
• regular voters. This makes (D) the correct
  choice delegates are
• indeed closer to the ideological extremes than
  regular supporters.

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Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont

• Runs an internet and grassroots campaign from
  early 2002
• More than one million online supporters by April
  2003
• Earns attention and praise from the conventional
  mass media by August 2003

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From The Nation, January 8, 2004Deans
Fifty-State Strategyby John Nichols

• Despite two month of often brutal battering from
  his
• foes in the contest for the Democratic
  presidential
• nomination--or perhaps because of it--Howard Dean
  
• remains well positioned to finish at or near the
  front
• of the pack in the first-in-the-nation Iowa
  caucuses
• and New Hampshire primary. Strong finishes in
• those high-profile contests, which Dean
  identified
• more than two years ago as critical to what was
  then
• an "impossible dream" candidacy, ought to provide
  
• tangible evidence that the former Vermont
• governor's Internet-driven, decentralized and \
• seemingly seat-of-the-pants campaign is, in fact,
  the
• real thing. Even before anyone votes in Iowa and
• New Hampshire, however, Dean has already won
• the Jan Schakowsky primary. And that may be even
• more important to his nomination prospects.
• Schakowsky, an aggressive progressive who is one
• of the few grassroots organizers currently
  serving in
• Congress, does not live anywhere near Iowa or New
  

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Deans 50 State Strategy A midwestern, open
caucus
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The media can cripple a struggling primary
campaign
Even though Dean finished second, he should have
won the primary it was a closed primary
neighboring his home state.

• Howard Deans scream
• Deans Scream Not
• What It Seemed

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The aftermath

• Dean says he won't quit no matter what happens in
  Wisconsin
• Winless Dean quits race for White House
• Last four Democratic candidates debate before
  Super Tuesday
• Kerry and Edwards battle for ten states on Super
  Tuesday

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1. Why did Dean lose the nomination?2. Why
did Kerry win the nomination?3. Did Kerry do
enough to energize the Democratic Party for the
general election campaign?
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