COATTAILS EFFECT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Example:

he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("coattails effect" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Domain category:

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)