Political Parties in the United States

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There two major political contemporary parties of the United States of America consist of the Republican and the Democratic Party. Each party has its own political ideology. The salience of political ideology between the Democratic - Republican Party are vital to understand the core principles of each party and the variations between them. The main differences between them is how each political party feels about the principles and the role of the government should be. The core philosophy on republicans is based on limiting power of government intervention over the state, they feel the federal government shouldn't be involved in state affairs. However, be allowed to intervene only in critical matters. Republicans prefer a decentralized government, which mean the states govern the people and not the national government. Republicans feel that governmental power should not be centralized because the central government will be out of touch with the needs of local citizens they prefer the governmental power to be on local hands. Democratic philosophy prefers a centralized system of government, in which all powers are held by the Federal Government, with certain controls particularly reserved to the States.
There are ideological differences between America’s two major political parties in National defense, taxes, government spending, education, gun control laws, abortion rights, gay rights and much more it seems like they always have to be to one side. Democrats believe that the government has certain duties and responsibilities to take care of all citizens. This is why they tend to favor an active role of the government in society, in the other hand Republicans tend to disapprove this role and oppose to assistance programs. Republican...

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...ner. Minor parties cannot compete under this type of structures is impossible for them to have a fair chance to strive for a victory (What is the, 2012).
Each political group have organized group that represent and help candidates to maintain the campaign process running smoothly, this are organized group that represent and are devoted to help selecting candidates to run in presidential elections, the role of this political campaign is to get support for their candidates. The Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee host conventions to link the public with its elected leaders, this play an important role in the campaign it gives an opportunity to each organizations to establish connections between Democratic and Republican followers and candidates the opportunity to get to know their political ideology and the main differences between them.

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