Types of Elections
Presidential Elections
Campaign Finance I
Campaign Finance Reform II
Trivia-History
100
Nominating elections in which voters choose the candidates from each party who will run for office in the general election.
What is a primary election?
100
This state hold the first presidential caucus.
What is Iowa?
100
Corrupt event in the 1970s that helped trigger a move for campaign finance reform.
What is Watergate?
100
Ads that avoid the words "vote for" or "vote against"
What are issue ads?
100
Year in which the demolition of the Berlin Wall began.
What is 1989?
200
Term used for a general election that occurs halfway through a president's term.
What is a midterm election?
200
Group of people that presidential candidates generally try to appeal to for the general election.
What are moderates?
200
1971 law created to try and "level the playing field"
What is FECA?
200
Arm of an interest group that gives limited and disclosed money directly to a campaign
What is Political Action Committee?
200
Country Great Britain fought in the War of Jenkin's Ear?
What is Spain?
300
Term used for general elections in odd-numbered years.
What is an off-year election?
300
Term for when states try to move their caucus/primary as early as possible in the election season.
What is frontloading?
300
Money that is being raised for "party building purposes"
What is soft money?
300
Term for when financial information is not kept a secret.
What is disclosed?
300
Invented the thermometer in 1593
Who is Galileo?
400
Type of primary election in which only voters who are registered in the party may vote to choose the candidate.
What is a closed primary?
400
Each political party hold a 4 day ____ the summer before the general election. A candidate is officially nominated for the presidency at the time.
What is a national convention?
400
1976 Supreme Court case that first declared that spending money is considered to be a form of free speech
What is Buckley v. Valeo?
400
Law that essentially banned soft money
What is BCRA?
400
Disease that killed thousand of people in Glasgow in 1832
What is Cholera?
500
Type of primary when voters may vote for candidates of either party on the same ballot.
What is a blanket primary?
500
Positions created by the Democratic Party to help the upper ranks of the party have more of a say in the presidential nomination process.
What are superdelegates?
500
Money that is spent outside of the official campaign but is nevertheless designed to help someone get elected
What are independent expenditures?
500
Supreme Court case that allowed for the creation of Super-Pacs
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
500
Germany city that endured the worst bombing of World War II.
What is Dresden?
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