Chapter 9 - Nominations and Campaigns

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The way in which candidates attempt to manipulate various elements to achieve the nomination

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Campaign strategy

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The official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party

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Nomination

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The supreme power within each of the parties, which functions to select presidential and vice presidential candidates and to write a party platform

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National party convention

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A meeting of all state party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party convention

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Caucus

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Elections in which voters in a state vote for a candidate (or delegates pledged to him/her)

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Presidential primaries

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A commission formed at the 1968 Democratic convention in response to demands for reform by minority groups and others who sought better representation

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McGovern-Fraser Commission

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National party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the Democratic national party convention

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Superdelegates

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The recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention

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Frontloading

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A proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries, which would replace these electoral methods with a nationwide primary held early in the election year

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National primary

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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

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Regional primaries

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A political party’s statement of its goals and policies for the next four years. The best formal statement of a party’s beliefs

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Party platform

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A high-tech method of raising money for a political cause or candidate. Involves locating potential supporters by sending information and requests for money to people whose names appear on lists of those who have supported similar views or candidates in the past

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Direct mail

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A law passed in 1974 for reforming campaign finances.

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Federal Election Campaign Act

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A six-member bipartisan agency that administers and enforces campaign finance laws

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Federal Election Commission (FEC)

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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

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Presidential Election Campaign Fund

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Contributions of up to $250 are matched from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund to candidates for the presidential nomination who qualify and agree to meet various conditions, such as limiting their overall spending

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Matching funds

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Political contributions earmarked for party-building expenses at the grass-roots level or for generic party advertising. They aren’t subject to contribution limits.

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Soft money

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Funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms. A corporation, union, or some other interest group can create one and register it with the FEC

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Political Action Committees (PACs)

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The phenomenon that people often pay the most attention to things they already agree with and interpret them according to their own predispositions

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Selective perception