Political Parties
Main purpose of political parties
What is Nominating Candidates?
What is lobbyist?
A form of favoritism towards one party over other found in many media sites
What is Media Bias?
An entity that oversees public campaign financing during elections
What is the FEC?
An Act passed to ban soft money and to reduce the number of attack ads for candidates
What is the McCain-Feingold Act?
The oldest form of nomination for a candidate
What is Self announcement?
A method in which interest groups influence elections to have a better chance to get someone in office that supports their views.
What is Electioneering?
When media sites cover the exit polls for an elections and make predictions based off that
A massive group of PACs and/or organizations that can donate unlimited money but cannot be donated to the candidate directly
What are Super PACS?
What is the FECA?
A method of nomination where a person gets a number of signatures
What is a petition?
An interest group that mainly focuses with retired people over the age of 50
What is the AARP?
When a media site selectively gives out information to create a goal for their viewers
What is agenda setting?
Money that is given directly to a candidate but is limited in the amount
What is Hard money?
A court case that confirmed the validity of the McCain Feingold Act.
What is the McConnell v. The Federal Election Commission?
The number of states that have open primaries
What is 21 States?
A method in which interest groups sue the government
What is Litigation?
A thirty second audio clip of a candidate
What is an sound bite?
Money that has no limit but cannot be directly donated to a candidate
What is Soft money?
A court case which declared that donating to candidates was protected under the 1st amendment
What was Citizen United vs FEC?
A meeting between party members to discuss who should be the next candidate for their party
What is Caucus?
A interest group that spends the most amount of money in politics
What is US Chamber of Commerce?
What is Spinning?
A social welfare group that can participate in politics but it cannot be the primary purpose of the group
What is a 501(c)4?
An Act that banned all interstate banks and organizations from making donations to candidates in 1907
What is the Tillman Act?