Candidates
An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
What is a Winner-take-all system?
Money that is given by interest groups in order to influence the outcome of an election.
What is Interested money?
Filtering media
What is Selective exposure?
Nominated by direct votes from the people.
What is a Direct primary?
A party that plays a small role in politics.
What is a Minor party?
The electoral system used in electing the president and vice president, in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for a particular party’s candidates.
What is an Electoral college?
Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
What is soft money?
The process by which we develop our political attitudes, values, and beliefs.
What is Political socialization?
Where people are not required to declare party affiliation.
What are Open primarys?
When a party overruns the other that was in office.
What is a Realigning election?
Candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot.
What is the Coattail effect?
Donations made to political candidates, party committees, or groups which, by law, are limited and must be declared.
What is hard money?
They are a tax-exempt organization.
What are 527 groups?
To select nominees for the parties.
What is a Party convention?
The idea that the government should not interfere with commerce.
What is Laissez-faire economics?
Focusing on the candidate specifically and not the party.
What is Candidate appeal?
Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
What are Independent expenditures?
A news that advocates the election or defeat of a specific candidate.
What are Independent expenditures?
Where local people give their opinions over the candidates.
What is Caucus?
The idea that the government can stabilize the economy.
What is Keynesian Economics?
An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
What is a Single-member district?
Media that emphasize the news.
What is News media?
The idea that the government can stabilize the economy.
What are Keynesian Economics?
Someone voting for the opposite party that they correlate with.
What is Crossover voting?
Where one party controls the white house and the other controls both houses of congress.
What is a Divided government?