Front-loading affects the selection of a nominee by:
a. making the selection of senators as party nominees much more likely than the selection of governors
b. hurting incumbent presidents who cannot contest their party’s primaries as easily as challengers
c. making the performance of candidates at conventions all the more important
d. making success in earlier primaries all the more important in gaining and keeping momentum
e. making money less important in early contests as long as the candidate gets in front of other borrowers for the later primaries

Front-loading affects the selection of a nominee by making success in earlier primaries all the more important in gaining and keeping momentum.

Option: (d)

Explanation:

political parties perform an important task in government. they bring people together to achieve control of the government, develop policies favorable to their interests or the groups that support them, and organize and persuade voters to elect their candidates to office.

explanation:

the united states constitution is the supreme law of the united states. the constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. its first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral congress; the executive, consisting of the president; and the judicial, consisting of the supreme court and other federal courts. articles four, five and six embody concepts of federalism, describing the rights and responsibilities of state governments, the states in relationship to the federal government, and the shared process of constitutional amendment. article seven establishes the procedure subsequently used by the thirteen states to ratify it. it is regarded as the oldest written and codified national constitution in force.