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primary
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...primary, in the United...a preliminary election in which the candidate...states extend the primary principle to the...providing for an election in which voters...is dominant the primary, rather than the regular election, is crucial in......
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election
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......popular, and that the election of the Senate and of...provided for popular election of senators.Political...convention, direct primary, nonpartisan primaries...the institution of primary elections, and the...the 2000 presidential election clearly revealed that......
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political action committee
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......candidate for each campaign (primary, runoff, and general election). Some, however, conduct...candidates they oppose, both in primary and general elections. Federal...name immediately before an election, but that rule was eased by......
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Wilson, Woodrow
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......policies, went on to win the election. Despite much resistance from...liability act, the direct primary, a corrupt-practices act...Theodore Roosevelt, gained the election for Wilson, who captured...providing for the direct popular election of U.S. Senators, the Eighteenth......
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Clinton, Bill
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......Democratic presidential nomination after a primary campaign in which his character and private...Gore of Tennessee, went on to win the election, garnering 43% of the national vote...and independent H. Ross Perot. By his election, he became the first president born......
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Foraker, Joseph Benson
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......rebates in 1906 and opposed the direct election of U.S. senators. His political career was ended when, in the election campaign of 1908, William Randolph...Notes of a Busy Life (1916) is a primary source for the politics of the period......
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Wagner, Robert Ferdinand
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......after defeating the organization candidate in the primary election, won a third term as mayor. In 1965 he chose not...ran unsuccessfully in the New York Democratic mayoral primary in June of that year....
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Antigua and Barbuda
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......monarch is the titular head of state, but primary executive power lies with the prime...United Progressive party (UPP) won the election; Baldwin Spencer became prime minister...UPP remained in power after the 2009 election.In 2009 allegations that American financier......
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Kennedy, Robert Francis
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......cabinet, but in 1964 he resigned to run for election as Senator from New York. Despite criticism...showing in the New Hampshire Democratic primary convinced him that a challenge to Johnson...energetic campaign and won a series of primary victories, culminating in California......
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Palin, Sarah Heath
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......Governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and won the governorship in the general election, becoming Alaska's first woman governor...party. The McCain-Palin ticket lost the election to Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden......