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Noun: coattails effect
  1. (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"

Derived forms: coattails effects

Type of: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot

Encyclopedia: Coattails effect

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