Elections
More than 50% of the total votes cast
What is majority?
A party that promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy, grassroots democracy
What is the Green Party?
Worked to end racial lynching and segregation, helped abolish the death penalty in 5 states, helped register 375,000 votes for the 2012 election
What is the NAACP?
Events that are staged by a political candidate primarily for the purpose of being covered-- are often scripted and limited in what they will report
What are media events?
A map showing the distribution of constituencies over a country
What is the electoral map?
An election in which only declared members of a party can vote for the parties nominee
What is a Closed Primary?
A term for a minor political party
What is a third party?
Seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue
What is lobbying?
Focus is on polling data and public perception rather than candidate policies
What is horse race coverage?
A primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote
What is a direct primary?
A meeting of state and local party organizations
The process of taking legal action
What is litigation?
When both the public and media agendas influence the decisions of public policy makers
What is policy agenda setting?
States would have 2 electors to represent state as a whole, each district in the state would also have an elector to represent them
What is district plan?
Each candidate for office is eligible based on her or his own merits rather than as a member of a political party
What is a nonpartisan election?
A general meeting of a political party
What is a party convention?
A frequent supporter of Republican candidates, spent around $306 million in lobbying from 1998 to 2014, second only to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
What is the American Medical Association (AMA)?
Candidates rely heavily on media advertising in order to persuade the public for their vote
What is advertising?
Each candidate gets the same percentage of electoral votes as popular votes
What is proportional plan?
A political realignment in the academic fields of political science and political history, is a set of sharp changes in party ideology, issues, party leaders, regional and demographic bases of power of political parties, and the structure
What is a Realigning Election?
A powerful party organization that dominates local elections
What is political machine?
The biggest organizational spender in American politics, representing more then 3 million members had spent a whopping $1 billion, usually supports GOP candidates
What is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?
30 second sound clips used on TV to convey the message of an entire speech
What are sound bites?
Winner of the citizens popular vote is the president
What is direct popular election?