POLS 1336 Lecture 4: electoral system
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How we elect presidents convention, where parties decide on their nominee ballots for the selected candidate. 2008 and 2012 provides texas has become a republican state republicans can"t win the white house without the electoral college votes that tx. Low taxes, low services anyone advocation raising taxes is committing political suicide in this state both parties remain socially conservative compared to other states. State party ideologies don"t always match national level party ideologies. Tx is traditionally conservative, even the democrats as a result, there has been considerable policy continuity across time.