A trend has emerged in the last twenty years or so in which states move their primary elections or caucuses earlier in the presidential election year in order to increase their significance nationwide. This process has become known as

a. frontloading.
b. leap-frogging.
c. intensifying.
d. opening the process.
e. narrowing the field.

ANS: A

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