Elections
The amount of votes needed to become president
What is 270?
The role played by the national media in investigating political personalities and exposing scandals.
What are watchdogs?
A group who's duties include overseeing disclosure of campaign finance information and public funding of presidential elections and enforcing contribution limits.
What is the FEC?
Freedom of religion, speech, press, and peacefully assemble.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Article that establishes the legislative branch.
What is Article 1?
A set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to particular offices.
What is the Electoral College?
A focus on polling data and public perception instead of candidate policy, and almost exclusive reporting on candidate differences rather than similarities.
What is horse race coverage?
A 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.
What are PACs?
Powers not stated in the Constitution are given to the States.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Article that establishes the executive branch.
What is Article 2?
A method of selecting a candidate similar to that of a general election.
What are the primaries?
The power of the media through news coverage to focus the public's attention and concern on particular events, problems, issues, personalities, and so on.
What is agenda setting?
Committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other PACs for the purpose of financing independent expenditures and other independent political activity.
What are suer PACs?
What is the 15th Amendment?
Article that establishes the judicial branch.
What is the Article 3?
A poll of people leaving a polling place, asking how they voted.
What are exit polls?
Perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.
What is media bias?
A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. They usually work within the framework of government, and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
What are special interest groups?
Sets dates for when federal government elected offices end.
What is the 20th Amendment?
Article that states The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government
A poll of voters being asked about which candidate they are going to vote for and why before they walk into the actual caucus
What is an entrance poll?
A set of issues, problems, or subject
What is policy agenda?
The process by which interest group members or lobbyists attempt to influence public policy through contacts with public officials.
What is lobbying?
Congress cannot give themselves pay raises.
What is the 27th Amendment?
Article that establishes it as the supreme law of the USA and that Public officials must take an oath to support it. It also authorizes the national debt, meaning that Congress can borrow money.
What is Article 6?