Power Grab
a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
politics that relate to political parties rather than to the good of the general public.
What is Party Politics?
false or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive.
What is Misinformation?
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
What is Democracy
a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
Who is an Immigrant?
a strategy used to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.
What is Voter Suppression?
a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape.
What is the Two-Party System?
false information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.
What is Disinformation?
the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.
What is Liberty?
the admittance of a foreigner to the citizenship of a country.
What is Naturalization?
organizations that raise money privately to influence elections or legislation, especially at the federal level.
What is a Political Action Committee?
a general meeting of a political party. The conference is attended by certain delegates who represent the party membership.
What is a Political Convention?
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is Propaganda?
the people politicians have been elected to represent.
What are Constituents?
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
What is a Refugee?
a loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution, amendment, or other debatable question; it is a hotly debated tradition in the Senate.
What is the Filibuster?
a formal set of principle goals that are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated topics or issues.
What is a Party Platform?
occurs when journalists or news organizations allow their own opinions to affect the news that they report and the way that they report it.
What is Media Bias?
all the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election.
What is the Electorate?
anyone residing in any given country without legal documentation. It includes people who entered the U.S. without inspection and proper permission from the government, and those who entered with a legal visa that is no longer valid.
What is an Undocumented Immigrant?
the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent of creating an undue advantage for a party, group, or socio-economic class within the constituency.
What is Gerrymandering?
a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular, an elected representative sent to a conference.
What are Delegates?
an environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own, so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered.
What is an Echo Chamber?
the vote for a candidate, issue, etc., made by the qualified voters, as opposed to a vote made by elected representatives or an electoral college.
What is the popular Vote?
the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
What is Assylum?