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Author: Mello Title: Political Campaigns Political Campaigns are an organized effort to secure nomination and election of candidates for government offices. In the United States, the in most important political campaigns are those for the nomination and election of candidates for the offices of president and vice president. In each political campaign there are nominations and they are made at a national convention (an agreement between states for regulation of matters affecting all of them) …

…in public opinion. In competitive systems, a distinction may be made between two-party systems, which seem to encourage a party strategy of moderation and compromise aimed at obtaining a majority vote, and multiparty systems, where there is less compromise and where a party's strategy emphasizes retaining the support of its core voters. In general, however, the structure and behavior of a particular country's political parties depends most heavily on the country's political and cultural history.