Question

The most recent party realignment is a result of the reinforcing effect of racial, social, and federal power issues. One effect is party polarization. How has this polarization affected candidates’ election strategies?

Answer 1

Party polarization prevented candidates from pursuing the same political goals, resulting in different and contradictory proposals that left electoral strategies weak and confused.

Step-by-step explanation:

Polarization is the term used in politics to report situations where there is a divergence of political attitudes and ideologies, between different parties, or even between members of the same party.

Polarization is common in different parties, especially in bipartisan systems like the USA. In this case, polarization ends up causing an ideology to lose its voice and power in relation to another, in some regions or periods of time.

However, polarization within the same political party, prevents party members from establishing a political campaign focused on the same objectives, leaving the campaign weak, confused and contradictory.

Answer 2

Social and political actors such as journalists, academics, and politicians either become engaged in partisan storytelling or else incur growing social, political, and economic costs. Electorates lose confidence in public institutions. Support for norms and democracy decline

Pernicious polarization routinely weakens respect for democratic norms, corrodes basic legislative processes, undermines the nonpartisan nature of the judiciary and fuels public disaffection with political parties. It exacerbates intolerance and discrimination, diminishes societal trust, and increases violence throughout the society. In country-by-country instances of pernicious polarization, it is common to see the winner exclude the loser from positions of power or using means to prevent the loser from becoming a threat in the future. In these situations, the loser typically questions the legitimacy of the institutions allowing the winner to create a hegemony, which causes citizens to grow cynical towards politics.