Vocabulary
Define issue.
A matter of debate or dispute.
This is usually the first step of the election process, and is used to select the candidate for the next step.
What is a primary election?
This is the total amount of electors in the Electoral College.
What is 538?
These are the two major political parties in the United States. (BONUS: What animals represents each of the parties?)
What are the democrats and republicans?
This is the amount of time between national elections.
What is every two years?
Define recall.
A special election in which citizens can vote to remove a public official from office.
This is what happens if nobody wins a majority of the votes in a primary election.
What is a runoff election?
This is who people are really voting for when they count the popular vote in elections.
What is electors?
Every political party has ___, which includes members from every state.
What is a national committee?
Define political machine.
Define popular vote.
The votes cast by individual voters in a presidential election, as opposed to the electoral vote.
This election comes after the primary election. (BONUS: Tell me when in the year it occurs.)
What is the general election? (BONUS: The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.)
What is the state capitals?
This is how political parties elect their candidates in the election.
What is a primary?
What is the opposition party?
Define electoral college.
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
This is an election that occurs when someone needs to be removed from their position.
What is a recall election?
This is the amount of electoral votes a candidate needs to win an election.
What is 270?
What is a petition?
This happens after the Electoral College casts their votes.
They are sent to the House and Senate to be counted.
Define winner-take-all system.
A system in which the candidate who wins the popular vote in a state usually receives all of the state's electoral votes.
This election occurs when a position suddenly becomes vacant. (BONUS: Give me two reasons a position might become empty.)
What is a special election? (BONUS: Death and resignation.)
What is 6 weeks?
These are the two types of primaries.
These are the four elections where a candidate won the electoral college vote, but lost the popular vote.
What is Clinton in 1992 & 1996, George W. Bush in 2000, and Trump in 2016?