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It refers to the American Election that happens every 4 years and includes the election of the President.
What is the General Election?
This demographic group has voted at the highest rates in recent presidential elections.
Who are Older Americans?
This candidate usually does not have a chance to win, but plays the spoler role by stealing votes.
Who is a third-party candidate?
The act of contacting public officials in an attempt to influence policy is known as this.
What is lobbying?
The group of people that tends to vote the least in Elections.
Who are 18-25 year olds?
Voting for candidates from one political party on a ballot.
A person who votes purely on one issue they find important.
It's the only state that uses a caucus system for its primary elections.
What is Iowa?
A linkage institution that is a watchdog for American Politicians.
What is the media?
A large meeting of political party delegates where they officially choose their candidate for election.
What is a party convention?
This amendment came out of the Vietnam War era and set a national voting age of 18 and older.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This type of primary allows voters to choose which party's primary they wish to vote in, regardless of registration.
What is an open primary?
Voting for candidates based on how you believe they will perform in the future.
What is prospective voting?
James Madison's essay that argued in favor of a large republic?
What is Federalist 10?
A conservative political organization that made documentaries that were critical of Democrats. Their most famous one was titled "Hillary"
Who is Citizens United?
Citizens who vote for candidates from different parties in the same election are engaging in this.
What is Split Ticket Voting?
Individuals who benefit from the work of an interest group without providing financial support
What are Free Riders?
This reform, adopted in 1913, took the selection of U.S. Senators away from state legislatures and gave it directly to voters.
What is the 17th Amendment?
It refers to state laws that make it more difficult to vote.
What are barriers to voting?
The Constitution leaves the power to this group to create the rules and regulations surrounding elections.
What are the State Governments?
A voter votes based on the candidate's record in office and their past votes on legislation.
What is retrospective voting?
A government agency in charge of regulating elections.
What is the FEC?
The total number of electoral votes.
What is 538?
This media effect occurs when news coverage focuses on who is winning rather than policy issues.
What is horse-race journalism?
If no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, this institution chooses the president.
What is the House of Representatives?
This type of election system awards a state's electoral votes to the candidate who wins the state's popular vote, except in Maine and Nebraska.
What is the winner-take-all system?
Voting based on which candidate you believe will be in your best interest.
What is Rational Choice Voting?
They are most likely going to become the first African American Speaker of the House.
Who is Hakeem Jeffries?
A political group that spends a significant amount of money campaigning for a candidate, but never directly works with the candidate.
What is a Super Pac?
A Supreme Court justice who was the deciding vote in the Citizens United case. His favorite book was 1984.
Who is Justice Anthony Kennedy?
The relatively ironclad relationships and patterns of interaction that occur among agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees.
What is the iron triangle?
This amendment was spawned out of Jim Crow voter suppression tactics. It eliminated the use of poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
The phenomenon of the advantage current office holders have in elections.
What is the Incumbency Advantage?
An effort to ban soft money and reduce attack ads with “Stand by Your Ad” provision: “I’m [candidate’s name] and I approve this message”
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002?
An essay by James Madison outlines the importance of Federalism.
What is Federalist 39?