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Flashcards by travelbugg2012, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by travelbugg2012
about 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Nomination – | The official endorsements of a candidate for office by a political party |
| Campaign Strategy – | The master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign |
| National Party Convention – | The supreme power within each of the parties |
| Caucus – | A meeting of all state party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party convention |
| Presidential Primaries – | Elections in which voters in a state vote for a candidate (or delegates pledged to him or her) |
| McGovern-Fraser Commission – | A commission formed at the 1968 Democratic convention in response to demands for reform by minority groups and others who sought better representation |
| Superdelegates – | National party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the Democratic national party convention |
| Frontloading – | The recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention |
| National Primary – | A proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries to replace these electoral methods with a nationwide primary held early in the election year |
| Regional Primaries – | A proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries to replace these electoral methods with a series of primaries held in each geographic region |
| Party Platform – | A political party’s statement of its goals and policies for the next four years |
| Direct Mail – | A high-tech method of raising money for a political cause or candidate |
| Federal Election Campaign Act – | A law passed in 1974 for reforming campaign finances |
| Federal Election Commission – | A six-member bipartisan agency created by the Federal Campaign Act of 1974 |
| Presidential Election Campaign Fund – | Money from the $3 federal income tax check-off goes into this fund, which is then distributed to qualified candidates to subsidize their presidential campaigns |
| Matching Funds – | Contributions of up to $250 are matched from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund to candidates for the presidential nomination who qualify and agree to meet various conditions, such as limiting their overall spending |
| Soft Money – | Political contributions earmarked for party-building expenses at the grassroots level or for generic party advertising |
| 527 Groups – | Independent groups that seek to influence the political process but are not subject to contribution restrictions because they do not directly seek the election of particular candidates |
| Political Action Committees – | Funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms |
| Selective Perception – | The phenomenon that people often pay the most attention to things they already agree with and interpret them according to their own predispositions |
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