Chapter 3 Bingo Terms Flashcards
Closed
Only registered voters for that party may attend these primaries/caucuses
Caucuses
Less common then primaries
Pledged
The delegates that we select in the primaries and caucuses
Proportional
Candidates split votes-takes longer than winner takes all
Super Tuesday
In February, the closest thing we have to a primary day
Front-loading
When a state moves their primary or caucus forward so that there delegates are more important
Electoral-Vote
Was created as a check on the public opinion, makes for a more clear-cut winner
House of representatives
435 members; chooses a president when a candidate does not receive enough electoral votes to win
Plurality Elections
Elections in which whoever gets the most votes NOT THE MAJORITY takes all the electoral votes for that state
Single Member winner take all
The person with the most public vote gets all the electoral votes in a certain state
Run-off
A second election if the majority is not reached, only top 2 candidates move on
Referendum
Citizens voting to nullify a law
Recall
Voting to move an elected official
Horse-race
Coverage by the media of who’s up and who’s down in polls
Agenda
What the congress follows
Random Sampling
When each person has an equal chance to be chosen for a poll
Sampling error
Statistical differences between 2 polls
Exit polls
Polls that sample people immediately after they have voted
Mid-term
Congressional vote every 2 years
Split ticket
Voting for people from different parties (Rep. president with Dem. senator) it is much less common but it is on the rise
270
Number of electoral votes needed to win
435
Number of members in the house
Iowa/New Hampshire
The first caucus and primary
Sound bite
Short pieces that media focusses on, they are continually getting shorter and shorter
Super Delegates
Nickname for un-pledged delegates in the democratic party
General election day
The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
Ballot initiative
citizens can petition to have propositions placed on the ballot to be voted on
Majoritarian politics
when our elected leaders do what the majority wants done since the majority of the American people elected them
Marxist view
all political struggles are really struggles between a few rich business owners (capitalists) and the mass of relatively poor workers
Power Elite Theory
When our elected leaders do what a small group of people called “elites” want done
The bureaucratic view
The view that the elites are the longtime members of the federal bureaucracy who implement policy
The pluralist view
The elite theory which holds that different groups combine to form a coaltion
Stratified or multistage sampling
Taking the same percentage of people from different areas regardless of the population
Apportionment
Changing the amount of representatives per state due to the census that occurs every 10 years
Bias
To be closed minded or think that only your way is right
C Wright Mills
Founder of the power elite theory
