Why Must We Suffer
This amendment expanded voting rights to any citizen over the age of 18
26th
How often do elections happen for:
The President
The Senate
The House
President: Every 4 years
Senate: Every 6 years
House: Every 2 years
People vote for these when casting a ballot for president.
Electors
This group decides the rules for campaign funding
F.E.C.
Channels that connect government to the people. Political Parties are an example of this.
Linkage institutions
This amendment changed the election of Senators from the state legislatures to popular vote.
17th amendment
The person who holds office is statistically more likely to win their party primary.
Incumbency advantage
This aspect of the Electoral College leads some people to question its democratically representative quality
winner-take-all
After the primary election, the next election is called
The general election
Third/ minor parties struggle to get power because of this
money, plurality voting, media ignoring
Name two barriers to election-day voter turnout
voter apathy, voter registration challenges, voter alienation, election day on a Tuesday, absentee/ early voter restrictions, changes to polling places.
Rounds of speeches, voice votes or moving around a room to cast votes. Usually happens in small population states
Caucus
Many scholars argue that the Electoral College favors these types of states.
smaller
Groups that collect money from their members in order to support specific candidates or issues
Connected PACs
Interest groups influence congressional committees, who in turn work with the bureaucracy. This work is not temporary, but ongoing
Iron Triangles
When voters look at a candidates track record and past choices to inform their vote
The major event that happens after the primaries and before the general election in November. It is where the parties officially nominate their candidate.
party convention
The Electoral College was a compromise that helped ratify the Constitution. Name another compromise.
3/5ths
Connecticut/Great
Importation of slaves
groups created for electioneering communications that can avoid campaign finance laws by taking money from 501(c)4 organizations, so long as they don't directly coordinate with campaigns
SuperPACs
Issue network
This 1965 law directed resources to states that had notorious voter impression and outlawed literacy tests
Voting Rights Act
Election Day
The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
The House votes. Each state gets one vote.
Citizens United argued that the provision of this law that barred electioneering communications within 60 days of an election was a violation of free speech
BCRA, or the McCain-Feingold Act
People whose job it is to influence congress members in order to support specific interest groups
Lobbyists