The emergence of political parties in America

The emergence of political parties in America

The emergence of political parties in America started when the Americans decided to break their political bond with their motherland. As a result, this led to the emergence of the American Revolution where the political leaders decided to rule at a national scale. These resulted in conflicts among the aspiring politicians hence the emergence of political parties. The political parties conflicted in their different decisions. Consequently, this led to the splitting of the political parties (Ware, A. 1996). The south separated from the north and formed their law-making body. Today, most political parties are based on the basis of republican or democrats. The factor determines who the people vote and which political parties they are affiliated to. Examples of the earliest political parties in the United States of America include the Federalists and the Anti-federalists parties which gave birth to the political parties today (Ware, A. 1996).

The factors that basically shaped the political parties were firmly based on the cultures of the people of origin while suggestions have been made when it comes to America that every American thinks the same as the other. For example, the ones who majorly think that the conservative way is the better vote for the republican while those who believe in the liberal always vote for the democrats. The difference here is majorly based on the attitudes towards the public laws and officials (Ware, A. 1996). An example of the shaping factors is the families, the gender, the race, ethnicity based race, and religion which are said to complete every American attitude.

Main political parties are divided into national, state and county levels. At the national level, political parties play the role of presidential elections. There exist differences in the presidential and the congressional elections in diverse ways (Ware, A. 1996). One the presidential elections are majorly full of aggression more than the one seen in the congressional campaigns. The perception of the differences in the election and campaign aggressiveness is mainly caused by the difference that exists in the term limits in office. The election of congressmen may be over and over and they may maintain their office for decades while at the presidency level, the person elected is only limited to a two-term period and cannot vie again (Ware, A. 1996). When it comes to congressmen they have the advantage of incumbency where they are able to reach out to their people, unlike the president who can’t reach out to every person in the land due to the big area of coverage.

Money, especially in the 2016 elections proved a source of votes in many electoral states (Sorauf, F. J. 1988).  The campaigners spend a lot of money in the search of votes in their states. Florida, as obvious did not have a setback when it came to spending by the campaigners. In fact, the elections in Florida were determined by the big money that broke the history of the state in terms of spending. Many of the campaigners lined up billionaire donors and other independent groups of politics which in this case are allowed to accept the political donations (Sorauf, F. J. 1988).

The social has proved to be the main stage of political ambitions whereby the political aspirants launch their bids and communicate to their supporters (Tumasjan, 2010). Basically, they are the major stages of the campaign and here the aspirants are allowed to execute their political strategies to the social media on the platform of hunting votes (Tumasjan, 2010). For example after the 2012 elections barrack Obama the then president joined twitter and thereafter, it has been the major platform for the political aspirants all over the world. The 2016 elections saw every political aspirant socializing in every social platform. The platforms hereby include Facebook, twitter, Instagram etc. Most registered voters who are also users of social media have increasingly been noted and reported to follow and support candidates on social media. As the 2016 election campaigns increased, the social media sites played a major role in the elections.

Reference

Ware, A. (1996). Political parties and party systems (Vol. 9). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sorauf, F. J. (1988). Money in American elections. Scott Foresman & Co.

Tumasjan, A., Sprenger, T. O., Sandner, P. G., & Welpe, I. M. (2010). Predicting elections with twitter: What 140 characters reveal about political sentiment. ICWSM.