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3. State law determines how organizations qualify as political parties to get candidates on the ballot, party membership ____, the right to vote in a party’s primary, the requirements for party officials, the party nomination process, and the regulation of party finances (although such regulations have had little success).
6. Party activists are not ____per se and tend to be people who are decidedly liberal or conservative in their issue positions.
8. Party activists who serve on the city, county, or state party organizations, or who regularly work in campaigns constitute a(n) _____ pool for candidates for public office.
10. State committees are headed by party _____who hail from varied backgrounds.

1. _____ committees have become service providers to candidates’ campaigns.
2. Most local parties are an entirely _____-based operation with limited permanent resources.
4. City and county party officers and committees are chosen ______and cannot be removed by any higher party authority.
5. The role of local party organizations is mostly ____to that of the candidates’ own organizations.
7. Professional campaigns develop a campaign theme to ___the essence of the campaign and help the candidate “stay on message.”
9. Political party organizations in the U.S. are decentralized with power flowing from the bottom up, consisting of city and county _____, state committees, and national committees.