PACs/Super PACs
Official organization created by interest groups to raise campaign funds directly.
What is a PAC?
This process determines who will be the candidate for each political party.
What is a primary?
Mandatory ten-year population count determining House seat allocation across states.
What is the census?
This party is more liberal, and their logo is a donkey.
What is the Democratic Party?
True or False: Voting is an involuntary civic duty.
What is false?
Organization raising unlimited independent funds without direct candidate coordination.
What is a Super PAC?
This body, established by the Constitution, technically elects the U.S. President and Vice President, requiring a candidate to win at least 270 of its total 538 votes.
What is the Electoral College?
Drawing legislative boundaries to give one political party an unfair election advantage.
What is gerrymandering?
This party is more conservative, and their logo is a elephant.
What is the Republican Party?
Optional participation: voting, volunteering, attending local government council meetings.
What are voluntary civic responsibilities?
Regulated donations to candidates or PACs.
What is hard money?
Method measuring public sentiment through randomized representative population samples.
What are public opinion polls?
This group draws the congressional district lines.
Who are the state legislatures?
Formal written statement outlining a party's core principles and policy positions.
What is a platform?
These are civic duties that are mandatory: jury duty, draft registration, paying taxes
What are involuntary civic duties?
Unregulated campaign money donated to political parties for general party building.
What is soft money?
Competitive battleground states where election outcomes remain unpredictable.
What are swing states?
Gerrymandering techniques: concentrating voters vs splitting voters across districts.
What is packing and cracking?
Minor parties introducing fresh policy ideas into national discourse despite electoral barriers.
What are third parties?
Legal process foreign-born residents complete to obtain full United States citizenship.
What is naturalization?
2010 Supreme Court ruling protecting independent corporate political spending as free speech.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
In this type of primary election, registered voters can participate in either party's primary regardless of their own official political affiliation, unlike a closed primary.
What is an open primary?
Redistributing 435 House seats among states based on population shifts after census.
What is Reapportionment?
Give an example of a minor party in the United States.
What is the Libertarian Party or Green Party?
Author of the Pledge of Allegiance written in 1892 to promote patriotic unity.
Who is Francis Bellamy?