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Political Trivia
100
Alexander Hamilton inaugurated this party system
What is the First Party System?
100
Technological way of campaigning in which a candidate uses a website
What is High-tech media
100
Allows voters to pick some democrats and some republicans on the primary
What is Blanket primaries
100
This state has the first-in-the-nation caucus
What is Iowa?
100
Probably the most influential 527 group in a presidential campaign in 2004
What is Swift Boat Veterans
200
Andrew Jackson founded the American Political Party
What is Jackson and the Democrats Versus the Whigs?
200
high tech method of raising money for political cause or candidate
What is Direct Mail
200
only members of a party may vote to select that party's candidates
What is A Closed Primary system
200
States holding their primaries earlier and earlier in the primary season
What is Frontloading
200
Six-member bipartisan agency created by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974
What is Federal Election Commission
300
Era in which slavery dominated American politics and split both the Whigs and the democrats
What is The Two Republican Eras?
300
Way of raising money for a political campaign
What is Fundraising
300
The loss of party members as more people identify as independence
What is party dealignment
300
independent groups that seek to influence the political process but aren't subject to contribution restrictions
What is 527 groups
300
These 2 candidates visited some states far more than others during the 2008 nomination campaign
Who is Obama and Clinton
400
a coalition forged by the democrats, who dominated American politics from the 1930's to the 1960's
What is The New Deal Coalition?
400
Getting a campaign manager, getting a fundraiser, assembling a campaign staff
What is Organizing a campaign
400
the ways in which citizens' policy preferences are converted into policy initiatives
What is linkage institution
400
Funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms
What is political action committees
400
the master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign
What is campaign strategy
500
In 1968 Richard Nixon formulated what became widely known as his "Southern Strategy"
What is Southern Realignment And the era of divided Party Government?
500
Law passed in 1974 for reforming campaign finances
What is The Federal Election Campaign Act
500
a candidate cam win without winning greater than 50% of the vote
What is Winner-take-all electoral system
500
a commission formed at the 1968 Democratic convention in response to demands for reform by minority groups and others who sought better representation
What is the McGovern-Fraser Commission
500
meeting of all state party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party convention
What is caucus