voter behavior

political party: organized group w goals and ideals joining to win election and control gov

de alighnment - shifts in preferences

dekignment- people shifting AWAY form the party

parties exist to run political canidates

closed primary- only registered members of a party cna vote for that party

open primary- a registered voter may in aany party primary regardless

caucus-a public and visual vote

for a canidate to be viable they need at LEAST 15 percent of the caucus