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1. Governments in US
Governments in the United States are divided into following 3 levels.

1. Federal Level (Executive, Legistative, and Judicial)
   (Election) President of United States, Senator, and so on.
2. States Level (Executive, Legistative, and Judicial)
   (Election) States Governor, and so on
3. Local Level (Executive and Legistative)
   (Election) Mayor, and so on

2. Upper House and Lower House
US congress consists of Upper House and Lower House.

	Upper House	Lower House
Name	the Senate	the House of Representative
Seats	100	415
Allotment	2 seats per state	Based on the population (1 seat per about 600 thousand people)

3. Primary Election and General Election
In US, there are 2steps in the process of election, primary election and general election.

1. Primary Election(election in party)
   Several candidates run for this election in a party. A candidate of the party is elected.
2. General Election
   Several candidates run for this election as a representative of party. The head of goverment, such as president and governor is elected.

4. Republican and Democrats

5. Gerrymander
In US, many kind of people, whose ratial or cutural background are different, live in a society. Those who have the same cultural basis or belief are likely to reside closely each other. This makes a community with a culture and opinion. Those communities have stong political power to affect elections. Therefore, Designing the district is very important for election in US.
"Gerrymander" means to design the district for a election profitably to the disigner's party. In 1812, The governor of Massachusetts, E. Gerry, designed a destrict for an election profitably to his party. The shape of this district was simmilar to salamander. Thus, Gerrymander is generated from "(Elbridge) Gerry" and "salamander".

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