Political Parties
Elections
The Media
Interest Groups
Headlines!
100
These earth quake elections occur once every few generations that dramatically rearrange the composition of one of the two political parties.
Realigning or critical elections.
100

This early voting primary state has a famous independent streak.

New Hampshire.

100
A good example would be the targeting to liberal audiences by NPR and conservative ones by Fox News.
Narrowcasting.
100
Interest group is protected by the _____ ______.
First Amendment.
100

South Bend Mayor running for the Democratic nomination who is winning the media over.

Pete Buttigi-something?
200
This system of electing candidates perpetuates the two-party system and discourages third party challengers.
Winner-take-all or first-past-the-post elections
200
Where voters gather to debate and discuss who they would like to see be their party's nominee.
Caucus.
200
One of the roles of the media- when news outlets show what stories they think the American people should care about.
Gatekeeper or Agenda-setting
200
When all interest groups compete openly in the political arena with no one group dominating.
Pluralism
200

City that will elect its first ever black female mayor today.

Chicago

300
This coalition of voters emerged in 1932 and helped the Democratic Party hold onto power for several decades.
New Deal
300
These leaders play an outsized (and some would say undemocratic role) in the Democratic primary process.
Superdelegates
300
An example would be the White House leaking a first draft of the president's state of the union address before the big night.
Trial balloon
300
The largest private interest group in the country, it relies on selective benefits to appeal to its 30 million members.
AARP
300

Politician with the worst job in all of Europe.

Theresa May.

400
This election year saw the beginning of divided government to the present.
1968
400
DOUBLE! The time period before the first primary when candidates seek to raise and money and gain recognition among party faithfuls.
Invisible primary.
400
________ and _________ helped to permanently establish the role of the media as a "watchdog."
Watergate and Vietnam.
400
When interest groups use civil lawsuits and legal action to achieve their policy goals.
Litigation
400

Subject matter Supreme Court justices are openly debating at the moment.

The death penalty.

500
The _____ ______ strategy encourages parties to appeal to broad coalitions of voters in order to win elections.
Big tent
500
A type of election where the winner doesn't necessarily win a majority of the votes cast.
A plurality.
500
DOUBLE !Who's infamous "scream" after the Iowa caucus results is an example of free media gone wrong?
Howard Dean
500
When the interests of a congressional subcommittee, an interest group and a federal agency align together.
Iron triangle
500

What the Trump administration has been issuing despite the objections of career civil servants.

Security clearances.

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