Elections
The naming of candidates who will run for office and a major function of political parties.
What is Nomination?
Media serves as the 4th branch of government and watched over national and local governments for the citizens.
What is the Watchdog function?
Taxpayers can choose to donate extra money each year to government-funded campaigns.
What is Public Financing?
This grants freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
This song was released in the 80s and become a meme known as "Rick Rolled".
What is Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley?
A nomination process for solo candidates where you must get the same number of signatures as the last voter turnout.
What is the 10% rule?
These are events that are staged by a political candidate primarily for the purpose of being covered and are often scripted and limited in what is reported.
What are Media Events?
Political donations that are given to the party can avoid government regulations and can't be tracked by anyone.
What is Soft Money?
No Quartering troops during peacetime and not allowed during wartime either runless specifically stated by law.
What is Amendment 3?
This song was released in 2019 made along with Disclosure which blew up across the nation.
A winner must be announced by this date or the Vice President takes over the office.
What happens on January 20th?
This is the focus on polling data and public perception rather than candidate policies.
What is Horse-Race Coverage?
Independent expenditures groups that don't give directly to a candidate and may spend money on issues/advertising but not in connection with the campaign.
What are Super PACS?
All power not specifically given to the federal government can be reserved for the states or known as state rights.
What is Amendment 10?
This pop song was released in 2010 by an artist from the 90s that got people on the dance floor and falling in love.
What is DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love by Usher?
These are election held within the party to pick the party’s candidates for the general election and is closely regulated in most states so that the state controls them.
What is the Direct Primary?
This is when a candidate grants interviews either “on-the-record” or “off-the-record” to persuade the public to perceive the issue in a certain way that helps the candidate.
What is Spinning?
1st Supreme Court Case to deal with the issue controlling our spending struck down some spending limits on presidents that use public funds.
What is Buckely V. Valeo 1976?
This abolished slavery in America making slaves free.
What is Amendment 13?
This song was released in 2008, features Micheal Jackson, and increased paranoia around people.
What is Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell?
A plan where states have 2 electors to represent the state as a whole where each district in the state would also have an elector to represent them.
What is the District Plan?
The Media gets to decide what they inform the public about, and what information they refrain from the public.
What is Agenda Setting/ Agenda Cutting?
These people raise unlimited soft money for voter registration, issue advocacy, but not for a "specific candidate".
What are 527 groups?
This set the limit on presidential terms at 3 or maxim service of 10 years.
What is Amendment 22?
This song was released in 2020 and become the biggest song of the year featuring Iann Dior.
What is Mood by 24kGoldn?