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What is ' Blue' states
Those states consistently won by the Deomocratic candidate at presidential elections
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What is a Caucus
A means of choosing someone to represent a political party in an election through meetings in which attendees attempt to persuade each other to support their preffered candidate
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What is closed primaries
Public contests to choose the most suitable candidate to represent a party in an election, in which only voters who gave declared their party affiliation can participate
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What is the Electoral College
The mechanism used to elect the president, each state is alloted a number of votes, based on its population
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What is Federalists
A term applied to the people who supported the adoption of the US constution and would, in many cases, have been prepared to increase the power it gave to the central government
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A means of choosing someone to represent a political party in an election through meetings in which attendees attempt to persuade each other to support their preffered candidate

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What is closed primaries

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What is the Electoral College

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