Vocab
Gerrymandering
What is-
Drawing boundary lines in state districts to favor one party
Emotional Advertising
What is-
Using people's emotions
Political Party
What is-
A group of citizens with similar views on public issues who work to put on public issues who work to put their ideas into government action
Running mate
What is-
The person that will run for vice president
Idependent Voter
What is-
Voters that don't support one particular party
Primaries
What is-
Held to choose the candidate for each major party
Plain Folks Advertisment
What is-
When the person is trying to get you to believe there just like the average person
Republican Beliefs
What is-
Government believe in smaller government with more moral regulations and lower taxes
Caucus
What is-
A meeting held to choose candidates or delegates to go to a convention
Electoral Vote
What is-
The vote that chooses the president
Chairsperson
What is-
Organizes volunteers or political party workers to maximize the party's outreach
Difference of a Campaign Platform and Plank
What is-
The platform is the stance on their major issues and the planks are the smaller issues that contribute to the stance
Democratic Beliefs
What is-
Less restrictions on moral/social issues with a larger federal government, and higher taxes
Primary
What is-
An election to choose a party's candidates for office they can be closed or open.
Electoral College
What is-
The group of 538 electors that decide the electoral vote
Electoral College
What is-
the group of 538 electors that have the vote this determines what President will be elected
Smear Advertising
What is-
When the person makes an attack on the other person in order to make them look bad
Multiparty
What is-
Many different political parties run the government
(more than 2)
The requirements needed to run for president
What is-
Natural born citizen, over 35 years old, ect.
Recall
What is-
When citizens remove a state or local elected official from office before their term ended
Patronage
What is-
the system an executive (Mayor, President, Governor ect.) giving a loyal party member a government job
Bandwagon Advertising
What is-
A propaganda to get others to like someone or something because everyone else does
3rd Party
A party of someone running for office who is neither republican nor democratic
Runoff Election
What is-
A second election that determines the winner
Voter Turnout
What is-
The percentage of people who vote in an election