Election Process
This comes right after primaries and caucuses, when a party officially confirms its presidential ticket.
What is the national convention?
This amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This was the major scandal that helped push Congress toward stronger campaign finance reforms in the 1970s.
What is Watergate?
This is the official vote cast by electors, not by ordinary citizens at the polling place.
What is the electoral vote?
This happens when demand is greater than supply at a given price.
What is a shortage?
Put these in order from earliest to latest: national convention, Electoral College vote, primaries and caucuses, congressional count.
What is primaries and caucuses, national convention, Electoral College vote, congressional count?
This amendment expanded voting rights by prohibiting denial of the vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This 2002 law is also known as McCain-Feingold.
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act?
In most states, the candidate who wins the statewide popular vote receives all of the state’s electoral votes under this rule.
What is winner-take-all?
This Federal Reserve tool involves buying or selling government securities.
What are open market operations?
Why do primaries and caucuses matter in the election process?
What is they help parties choose their nominees?
This federal law was especially important because it strengthened enforcement against racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This rule from BCRA requires candidates in ads to state that they approved the message.
What is the stand by your ad rule?
This office is chosen by the House if no presidential candidate gets an electoral majority.
What is the president?
This is the total amount the government owes over time, not one single year of overspending.
What is the national debt?
This is the final campaign stage before voters go to the polls in November.
What is the general election campaign?
A voter chooses the candidate they believe will best protect their own job, taxes, or financial situation. This is this type of voting.
What is rational choice voting?
This Supreme Court case said candidates may spend unlimited amounts of their own money on their campaigns.
What is Buckley v. Valeo?
Each state’s number of electors is based on its representation in these two parts of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This process allows voters to try to remove an elected official before the end of the term.
What is recall?
A candidate wins many safe states by huge margins but still loses because they fail to win enough competitive states. This shows the importance of this kind of strategy.
What is winning electoral votes, not only running up the popular vote?
This amendment gave Washington, D.C. electoral votes in presidential elections.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
This Supreme Court case struck down aggregate limits on how much one donor could give across many federal candidates and committees.
What is McCutcheon v. FEC?
This feature of presidential elections helps explain why campaigns often ignore states that are safely Democratic or safely Republican.
What is the Electoral College’s focus on competitive states?
This official is responsible for state funds and money management.
Who is the treasurer?