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Election Day
Winning
Preseason
Convention
Election Potpouri
100
Four
What is the amount a years between elections?
100
270
What is the number of electoral votes a candidate must receive to become president
100
Primary Season
What is the name given to elections held in each state that determine each party's candidates to send to the National Convention
100
National
What is the type of convention were a state's delegates meet to choose their presidential candidate
100
New Hampshire
What is where the first presidential primary is held
200
November
What is the month that election day is held in?
200
Electoral College
What is the body that elects the president
200
February
What is the month that primary season starts, during the year of the General Election
200
Majority
What is the amount of delegate votes at the National Convention a candidate needs to have to become that party's president pick
200
Iowa
What is the location where the first presidential caucus is held
300
Tuesday
What is the day of the week that presidential elections are held on.
300
Electoral Votes
What is given to each state that are based on the population of the state
300
June
What is the month that primary season ends
300
Delegates
What is given to candidates based on their showings in the primaries and caucuses
300
Ticket
What is the name given to presidential and vice-presidential nominees who represent their parties
400
General Election
What is the name given for election between the two nominees from each party.
400
Running-Mate
What is the name given to the Vice-Presidential candidate
400
Super Tuesday
What is the term for the Tuesday in Feb. or March when the greatest number of states hold primary elections
400
Winner-Take-All
What is the term for awarding all the delegates in a state to the winner of that state's primary or caucus
400
Secret Ballot
What is the term given to how people vote for candidates in the primary
500
Third-Party
What is a person (candidate) not affiliated with the two major parties
500
House of Representatives
What is the body of Congress that would decide the winner of the presidential race if neither candidate would receive 270 electoral votes
500

Caucus

What is the term given for states that have party nomination elections in which people meet together and vote in the open

500
Platform
What is a plan for action that each party writes at the National Convention
500
PACS
What is the acronym given to Political Action Committees that raise money for candidates