Examples of straight-ticket voting in the following topics:
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- They register as a member of the particular party when registered to vote.
- In the case of voting for president, since the 1970s, party identification on voting behavior has been increasing significantly.
- When voting in congressional elections, the trend is similar.
- While straight ticket voting has declined among the general voting population, it is still prevalent in those who are strong Republicans and strong Democrats.
- According to Paul Allen Beck and colleagues, "the stronger an individual's party identification was, the more likely he or she was to vote a straight ticket. "
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- They register as a member of the particular party when registered to vote.
- In the case of voting for president, since the 1970s, party identification on voting behavior has been increasing significantly.
- When voting in congressional elections, the trend is similar.
- While straight ticket voting has declined among the general voting population, it is still prevalent in those who are strong Republicans and strong Democrats.
- Voting Shifts by County Between the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Election
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- Some people are motivated to vote because they identify very strongly with one party.
- Oftentimes, people vote according to what party they identify with.
- Parties count on coalition members to vote for them consistently in elections.
- Those people who identify with a party tend to vote for their party's candidate for various offices in high percentages.
- Those who consider themselves to be strong partisans, strong Democrats and strong Republicans respectively, tend to be the most faithful in voting for their party's nominee for office, and are typically the voters who practice straight-ticket voting.
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- It uses wiki linking to connect tickets, files, version control changesets, and plain wiki pages.
- The Debian Bug Tracking System is unusual in that all input and manipulation of tickets is done via email: each ticket gets its own dedicated email address.
- The DBTS has a read-only web interface, for viewing and querying tickets.
- These are more oriented toward help desk ticket tracking than software bug tracking.
- BTT is somewhere between a standard trouble-ticket tracker and a bug tracker.
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- Their opponents on the Democratic-Republican ticket were former Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Senator Aaron Burr.
- At this point, each man from any party ran alone, as the formal position of running mate on a party ticket had not yet been established.
- Moreover, the voting method in the Electoral College did not account for party tickets: The writers of the Constitution had not envisioned competing political factions.
- Jefferson received the second-highest number of electoral votes and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral college voting.
- The majority of votes for Jefferson came from the southern states and Pennsylvania, while the majority of votes for Adams came from the northern states.
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- The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of incumbent President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp of New York for Vice President.
- In the popular vote, he outpolled Dole by over 8.2 million votes.
- The Electoral College map did not change much from the previous election, with the Democratic incumbent winning 379 votes to the Republican ticket's 159.
- All went on to vote Democratic in subsequent Presidential elections, having voted Republican in the three prior to 1992.
- Reform Party nominee Ross Perot won approximately 8% of the popular vote, less than half of his performance in 1992.
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- Hughes was the only Supreme Court Justice to be nominated for president
by a major political party and was joined on the ticket by former Vice
President Charles W.
- Convinced that
running again on a third-party ticket would give the election to Wilson and the
Democrats, he gave his support to the Republican Hughes.
- The electoral vote was one
of the closest in American history.
- With 266 votes needed to win, Wilson took
30 states for 277 electoral votes, while Hughes won 18 states and 254 electoral
votes.
- Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
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- In the end, Jefferson won a narrow victory over Adams (73 to 65 electoral votes) with New York casting the decisive vote.
- Because each state could choose its own election day, voting lasted from April until October.
- Under the United States Constitution, each elector cast two votes and the candidate with a majority of the votes was elected president, while the candidate with the second-highest vote became the vice president.
- Furthermore, this system of balloting was changed by the Twelfth Amendment (1804), which called for a "party ticket" (one president and one vice-presidential candidate) that the Electoral College had to cast votes for, rather than selecting individuals.
- Figures indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
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- Gore, however, did balance the ticket in other significant ways, as he was perceived to be strong on family values and environmental issues, while Clinton was not.
- Bush received 168 electoral votes to Clinton's 370.
- It was the second largest electoral vote shift in American history (517 vote shift), after Jimmy Carter's victory in 1976 (560 vote shift).
- In the entire country, only Washington, D.C. and Clinton's home state of Arkansas gave the majority of its votes to a single candidate; the rest were won by pluralities of the vote.
- Meanwhile, Perot's nearly 19% of the popular vote made him, in terms of the popular vote, the most successful third-party presidential candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election.
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- Both major parties turned to candidates from the electoral-vote-rich state of Ohio.
- "A vote for Harding," said the German-language press, "is a vote against the persecutions suffered by German-Americans during the war. " Not one major German-language newspaper supported Governor Cox.
- Harding won the 1920 Presidential election by a landslide, gaining 60% of the popular vote.
- Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
- Poster for the 1920 Democratic presidential ticket.