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Wealth Primary

For Wealth Primary we have a term and definition in Campaign Finance.



Wealth Primary (Campaign Finance)

An unofficial but integral (and usually decisive) part of the electoral process leading up to most primary and general elections for major public office, in which individuals and groups capable of making large campaign contributions effectively decide which candidates will have the financial wherewithal to mount winning campaigns and thus go on to govern. An exclusionary procedure in which only those with money or access to money can "vote," wealth primaries have been likened to Texas' racially exclusionary "white primaries" of the post-World War I era, which were declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.




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