Media Coverage
Election Funding
Campaigns/Elections
Political Parties
Media Concepts
100
one of two kinds of media, includes television and radio
What is Broadcast Media?
100
organizations that collect money to distribute to candidates who support the same issues as the contributors
What is Political Action Committee?
100
plan that candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign
What is campaign strategy?
100
party leaders and elected officials who become delegates to the national convention without having to run in primaries or caucuses, only in Democratic national convention
What is superdelegates?
100
groups that mobilize voters with issue advocacy advertisements on television and radio but may not directly advocate the election or defeat of a particular candidate
What is 527 groups?
200
information leaked to the media to see what the political reaction will be
What are trial balloons?
200
Can be given to the parties in limitless amounts so long as it is not used to back candidates by name
What is Soft Money
200
recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention
What is frontloading?
200
official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party
What is nomination?
200
media conglomerates that control a large percentage of daily newspaper circulation and some television and radio stations as well
What are chains?
300
the use of detective-like reporting methods to unearth scandals
What is investigative journalism?
300
political-action committee that is allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money from corporations, unions, individuals and associations. Some nonprofit groups are allowed to contribute to super PACs without disclosing where their money came from
What is Super PACs
300
elections in which voters in a state vote for a candidate
What is Presidential Primaries?
300
a private meeting of party leaders to choose candidates for office
What is caucus?
300
politics where technology has shaped political behavior and the political agenda
What is High-Tech Politics?
400
strategy of some broadcast channels that appeal to a narrow, rather than a broad, audience
What is narrowcasting?
400
A means of soliciting funds from millions of people
What is direct mail?
400
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?
400
media which reaches and influences both elites and the masses
What is mass media?
500
one of two kinds of media, includes newspapers and magazines
What is Print Media?
500
A six-member bipartisan agency created by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974. The federal Election Commission administers and enforces campaign finance laws.
What is the Federal Election Commission?
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