Voting
Legal protections found in these five constitutional amendments support access to voting.
What are the 15th, 17th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments?
The Green and Libertarian Parties are examples of this.
What is a third party?
These occur in years that are divisible by four.
What is a presidential election year?
Canvassing and phone banking are essential strategies for these.
What are modern campaigns?
Examples include traditional news outlets, new communication technologies, and platforms like Twitter and TikTok.
What is media?
This model of voting behavior is based on the citizen's individual interest.
What is rational choice voting?
A shift to this style of campaigns highlighted the charisma of a nominee vs. the strength of a party platform.
What are candidate-centered campaigns?
These occur in odd-numbered years.
What is a local election year?
The length of this cycle can have a positive or negative effect on the result of a campaign.
What is an election cycle?
As time goes on, people have relied more on these platforms for information.
What are online news sources
This type of voting behavior is based on whether a voter believes a candidate did well in the past.
What is retrospective voting?
Political parties modify their policies and messaging to appeal to different these groups
What are various demographic coalitions or groups?
This preliminary election narrows the candidate pool to one from each party.
What is a closed primary?
This 2010 Supreme Court case continues to shape campaign finance laws.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
Increasing options for ideologically diverse media outlets has increased public concerns for this.
What is media bias?
If a citizen possesses this belief they are more likely to vote in elections.
What is political efficacy?
Political parties use this information to shape campaigns and to enhance voter outreach.
What is voter data?
In a given election, incumbents from this Congressional chamber are more likely to be re-elected.
What is the House of Representatives?
According to a 1976 Supreme Court case, financial donations are equivalent to political speech.
What is Buckley v. Valeo?
The use of polling results to convey popular levels of trust and confidence in government can impact elections by turning such events into these.
What are horse races?
Voters cite bad weather, work schedules, and transportation issues as barriers to voting. But in 2016, this was the reason why voter turnout was low.
What is dislike for the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates?
Political parties serve this role regarding fundraising and media strategy in elections.
What is campaign management?
What are caucuses?
These tax-exempt organizations are able to funnel unlimited funds to a particular candidate (though they cannot work directly with the candidate)
What are Super PACS?
If a news outlet declares a candidate a winner, they are acting as this.
What is a scorekeeper?