POL SCI 142A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Brenda Lawrence, Philip E. Berger, Party System
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House nomination (grigsby and who owns nomination reading) Meaning of the election : ~ 48 mill voted for hillary 47 mill voted for trump. Predicted incumbent party was gonna have a difficult reelection - due to bad economy and 3rd term incumbent and eventual partisanship , immigrants was a big factor in. 90% people who voted for trump voted for romney. 79% believe undocumented should be on path to citizenship. The group that voted republican trump more so than expected were the rural resented voter s, and their resentment was against urban people, upper middle class, professor, etc . rural people were the ones that through of the poles, Framers was right but you need good nomination system, fix party system, they have point that has been underapreciated. Party nomination : party is a coalition of policy demanders. So we see only policy demanders in house nomination, so where was the party in the house nomination.