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Political parties have become increasingly unpopular and have
lost a great amount of power because of it. Interest groups are slowly
picking up where parties left behind and are becoming more and more
important not only in mobilizing voters, but also in lobbying
government officials to aide their cause.
In the early 1900's, parties solely were in charge of the
nomination process. A small group of party leaders, also known as a
caucus, would choose who would run against the opposing party's
candidate and what office t…
