A campaign can be seen as an organised, purposeful effort to create change, and it should be guided by thoughtful planning.
What is Campaign Strategy
100
Events purposely staged for the media that are intended to get the publics attention.
What is Media Events
100
Money from the $3 federal income tax check-off goes into this fund, which is then given to candidates so that it can pay for their campaigns.
What is Presidential Campaign Fund
100
The one who gets the popular vote in a state will receive all the electoral votes in that state.
What is Winner-Take-All
100
Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania. also known as swing states
What is Battleground States
200
Party-run and to participate in them you must be registered for that political party. The voting is done in public, with people raising hands to vote, filling out paper ballots openly and encouraging people to vote for their candidate.
What is Caucuses
200
A commercial that is paid by an organization, which will promote a person or will convey a specific message.
What is Television Advertising
200
A certain amount of money to a party that will not go to a specific candidate. There is no limit to the amount of money that can be given to a party
What is Soft Money
200
The right to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is Suffrage
200
When a person sees what they want to in a media message and do so by ignoring views that are not like theirs.
What is Selective Perception
300
Operates like a normal election. Voting is done in private (like a regular election), and are either open or closed depending on the state.
What is Primaries
300
Show themselves to the public. Mostly to attract attention to themselves and to keep up with public support.
What is Public Appearances
300
Money given to a specific political candidate. There are limits to the amount of money that can be given to them.
What is Hard Money
300
A group of electors who are selected by voters in every state, and these electors officially elect the president and Vice President.
US House+US Senate+3=538
What is Electoral College
300
Examples of this include, obeying the laws of the country paying the taxes or serving on a jury or as a witness on court or voting every 4 years
What is Civic Duty
400
Designed to nominate a party's candidate and to officially state their party platform. Most parties use thisto get support for their candidates.
What is National Conventions
400
The management function that builds and maintains mutually beneficial relationships between an organization and the people
What is Public Relations
400
Public money that is given to campaign funds that match donations made by individual contributors
What is Federal Match Fund
400
Voters vote based on policies or programs that are favored by candidates or parties
What is Policy Voting
400
It put limitations on soft-money contributions given by political committees. It also stopped corporations from advocating for or against a specific candidate.
What is Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
500
Guidelines that outline policies that a party wishes to implement when he/she become president.
What is Party Platform
500
A high-tech method of raising money for a political cause or candidate. It involves sending information and requests for money to people whose names appear on lists of those who have supported similar views or candidates in the past.
What is Direct Mail
500
Cannot donate more than $5,000 per year to a single candidate. regulated by Federal Election Commission. Can donate or campaign for specific candidates and are also organized under the 501(c)4 of the tax code.
What is PAC's
500
When you vote, but only after you take certain "factors into consideration", such as what the political party, officeholder and/or the administration has accomplished.
What is Vote Retrospectively
500
The winner of the election must carry out their platform.