Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.
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But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
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Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
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America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.
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A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
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Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
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With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.
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Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
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While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
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In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
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