The official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party.
What is nomination?
100
The master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign.
What is campaign strategy?
100
A political party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years.
What is party platform?
200
The recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention.
What is frontloading?
200
National party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the Democratic national party convention.
What is superdelegates?
200
A law passed in 1974 for reforming campaign finances. The act created the Federal election commission.
What is Federal election campaign act?
300
A meeting of all state party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party conventions. It is usually organized as a pyramid.
What is Caucus?
300
A proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries to replace these electoral methods with a series of primaries held in each geographic region.
What is regional primaries?
300
Money from the $3 federal income tax check-off goes into this fund, which is then distributed to qualified candidates to subsidize their campaigns.
What is presidential election campaign fund?
400
A commission formed at the 1968 Democratic convention in response to demands for reform by minority groups and others who sought better representation.
What is McGovern-Fraser Commission?
400
A six-member bipartisan agency created by the federal election campaign act of 1974. It administers and forces campaign finance laws
What is Federal Election Commission?
400
Funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign-finance reforms. A corporation, union, or some other interest group can create it and register it with the Federal Election Commission
What is political action committees?
500
Elections in which voters in a state vote for a candidate (or delegates pledged to him or her). Most delegates to the national party conventions are chosen this way.
What is presidential primaries?
500
Political contributions earmarked for party-building expenses at the grassroots level or for generic party advertising.
What is soft money?
500
The phenomenon that people often pay the most attention to things they already agree with and interpret them according to their own predispositions.