Today’s definition of a political party

A political party seems to elect a governmental office-holder under a given label to be the figurehead of our nation.  Generally, political parties begin and gain popularity at the local level and are lead by a coalition of individuals that share common ideological goals, have access to money, are champions of the media, know how to manipulate and use "outsiders' to present a positive public image, and carry a good public political appearance.  Political parties eventually gain power at the national level through moderate campaign efforts that reach out to and include all American citizens, in order to gain the most amount of support, with hopes to maintain and spread their own democratic policies and ideologies onto the nation according to how they believe our country should be run.