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What type of elections is held to determine a party's candidates for office?
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Such is the purpose of primary elections. Candidates may also be determined by caucuses and state conventions.
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The adoption of which progressive reform denied political bosses the power to pick their partys candidates for general elections?
secret ballot
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do well in the primaries
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Someone who shares the party's beliefs.
