The Role of National Parties in the American Political System

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The American political system is controlled primarily by the two main national parties.
Since the 1970s, both democratic and republican parties have grown through two separate paths
of power to become two independent but very strong party systems in the US. They have found
out ways of making money in terms of fundraising so that they could support their presidential
campaigns and other needs at their disposal. These parties have various roles that they play
especially during politics. They support their presidential candidates and other leaders at the state
level besides coming up with guidelines to balance the national, state and local parties (Lawson,
& Merkl, 2014). The national parties are driven by party committees whose role is to select
candidates for all political races and distribute polls and information, recruit training candidates
for major races and working closely with the local parties. The committee comes up with the
state representation whose number depends on party operations. The national parties operate
independently and are chaired by party delegates elected to head its operations. To simplify the
work of the main parties there are various local party groups that help in running operations on a
local level. These include congressional campaign or Hill committees whose roles include
carrying out house elections and funding senate races with support from the main parties
(Tremblay, 2012). The other group includes the democratic and republican associations of
governors. These are key figures in national parties as they form potential candidates for
presidential races. The women’s and youth groups train filed representatives on how to recruit
campaign volunteers at all levels. Party networks that include groups and unions of the women
rights, environmental and civil rights help the national party committees to achieve various
national objectives on local levels.