Ballot Battles
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
These organizations raise money to elect candidates and provide a label for voters to identify with.
What are political parties and interest groups?
This is the body that actually elects the President, instead of the popular vote
What is the Electoral College?
This is the clearest way you can tell how someone might vote.
What is party affiliation?
This is a group that raises and spends money to elect or defeat candidates, often can represent an interest group.
What is a PAC?
This important Supreme Court case ruled that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts can't be limited.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
This type of primary allows anyone to come and vote on election day.
What is an open primary?
This term describes a huge shift in the popular grouping of a political party, like the 1932 election.
What is a party realignment?
This media role involves the press deciding which issues are important enough to bring to the public's attention.
What is the Agenda Setter?
This term describes voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future.
What is prospective voting?
This is the usage of interest groups hiring former government officials to influence policy.
What is lobbying?
This is an election used to fill an office, as opposed to a primary which chooses a nominee.
What is a general election?
These are the two biggest demographic factors that correlate with high voter turnout.
What are education and age?
Interest groups use this "friend of the court" brief to influence Supreme Court decisions.
What is an Amicus Curiae brief?
This rule in the Electoral College means that the candidate who wins the majority of a state's popular vote gets all of its electoral votes.
What is the Winner-Take-All system?