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political parties in America today. Discussion The first issue under discussion is what role the parties exercise with respect to the candidates as well as the voters. The candidate is
the partys "figurehead," the person who most typically embodies the values with which the party is identified. Over time, the Republicans have become identified as the party that supports corporations
and big business while the Democrats are usually identified with labor and the "little guy" (The changing role of political parties-hereafter "Changing role"). These are generally considered to be the
typical descriptions of the major parties today. The parties are an outgrowth of the way society functions. In American society, "social groups with particular interests to promote or defend need
some means whereby their demands can be aggregated and articulated in government" (Changing role). That function is performed by political parties, and it also helps to explain why certain issues
are always associated with certain parties: voters have come to identify the parties with certain ideological positions and when one of their issues is under discussion, they will gravitate to
the party that supports (or opposes) it. However, another trait of both parties is that they seek to appeal to as wide a range of voters as possible, which inevitably
brings both parties to the center; it also means that the parties and their candidates have to make general, rather than specific, promises to the voters (Changing role). Because of
this, people have high expectations of what the government can do for them (Changing role). Once a candidate is elected, however, they are usually obligated to "focus on the provision
of specific benefits"-often to the benefit of those who worked to get them elected (Changing role). Thus, keeping promises to one group often results in disappointing another (Changing role). The
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