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Nomination Game
The Campaign Game
Money and Campaigning
100
The official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party.
What is nomination?
100
Political contributions earmarked for party-building expenses at the grass-roots level or for generic party advertising.
What is soft money?
100
Is chosen by roll call vote on the convention's final day.
What is the vice-presidential nominee?
200
A meeting of all state party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party convention.
What is caucus?
200
A six member bipartisan agency created by the Federal Election Campaign.
What is Federal Election Commission (FEC)?
200
Determined by two factors (1)how candidates use their advertising budget and (2)the "free" attention they get as newsmakers.
What is media coverage?
300
Created the Federal Election Commission and the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
What is the Federal Election Campaign Act?
300
A technique involving locating potential supporters by sending information and a request for money to huge lists of people who have supported candidates of similar views in the past.
What is direct mail?
300
Increased the limit of contribution to 2,000 as of 2004, and provided it to be indexed to rise along with inflation in the future.
What is the McCain-Feingold Act?
400
Any interest group joined to directly channel contributions of up to 5000 per candidate in both primary and general elections.
What is a PAC?
400
Voters in a state go to polls and vote for a candidate or delegates pledged to that candidate.
What is presidential primaries?
400
Extended the right of free speech to PACs, and they can now spend unlimited amounts indirectly.
What is the Buckley vs. Valeo case?
500
Paying most attention to things they already agree with and interpreting events according to their own predispositions.
What is selective perception?
500
All states to use some form of proportional representation in which a candidate who gets 15 percent or more of a state's vote is awarded a roughly proportional share of the delegates.
What is a democratic requirement?
500
It allows for politicians to decide on their own to run, to raise their own campaign funds, to build their own personal organizations, and to make promises about how they specifically will act in office.
What is campaigns promoting individualism in American politics?