1. A sharp drop in the number of voters willing to identify themselves as republicans or democrats, and a growing number who regard themselves as independents. 2. A big increase in split ticket...
straight ticket voting is when you vote for only one party on your ballot no matter who it is (all democrat, all republican etc) . you usually do this when you are registered with a party.
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progressives [Roosevelt] and the "old guard" republicans [Taft]----1912 The republican party broke into to groups known as National Republicans, and the Democratic-Republicans or Democrats because of...