The official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party.Generally, success in the nomination game requires momentum, money and media attention.
What is nomination?
100
Money plays too big a role in the ____ and ____
caucuses , primaries
100
What do candidates need because of high tech campaigning expensive?
PACs
200
Elections in which voters in a state vote for a candidate. Most delegates to the national party conventions are chosen this way.
What is presidential primaries?
200
Who had a mandate to try to make Democratic Party conventions more representative?
McGovern-Fraser Commission
200
What did Congress pass in 1974?
Federal Election Campaign Act
300
A proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries to replace these electoral methods with a series of primaries held in each geographic region.
What is regional primaries?
300
What process resulted in 71 percent pf pledged Democratic delegates being chosen within six weeks of the New Hampshire primary in 2004.
Frontloading
300
Although the 1974 campaign reforms were generally welcomed by both parties, the constitutionality of the Federal Election Campaign Act was challenged in the 1976 case. What case was it?
Buckley v. Valeo
400
Money raised for such purposes was known as ____ ____ and for over two decades was not subject to any contribution limits.
What is soft money?
400
Although about 50% of the population votes in the November presidential election, about how much percent casts ballots in presidential primaries?
20%
400
What administers enforces campaign finance laws?
Federal Election Commission
500
Money from the $3 federal income tax check off goes into this fund, which is then distributed to qualified candidates to subsidize their presidential campaigns.
What is Presidential Election Campaign Fund?
500
The goal of the nomination game is to when the majority of delegates support at the ____ ____ ____.
National party convention
500
What did the campaign reforms of the 1970s encourage the spread of?