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coattails effect

DEFINITIONS OF: coattails effect

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n (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party

“he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election”
Type of:
consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
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