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Electoral College

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Representatives of each state who cast the final ballot that actually elect the president.

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Electoral College Representatives

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1) Each state has electoral votes equal to the number of representatives plus the 2 U.S. senators.
2) CA has 55 electoral votes
(53 in the HR and 2 U.S. Senators)

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Which amendment gave DC electoral vote?

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  • The 23th amendment (1961) grants the district of Columbia 3 electoral votes.
  • Electoral College gave advantage to small populated states.
  • 435 (HR) + 100 (Senators) + 3 (DC electoral votes) = 538 (Total Electoral Votes)
  • Simple majority is needed to win (270)
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Demographics

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Statistical study of human populations and sub populations analyzing characteristics such as births, deaths, aging, and migration.

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US Census Data (National)

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  • Population: 320 million
  • Hispanics: 17 %
  • African Americans: 13%
  • Asian: 5%
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Generational Cohort

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The group of individuals who experience the same event within the same time interval

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Baby Boomers

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Those born 1946-1664

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Generation X

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Born 1965-1984

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Millennials

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Born after 1980

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Culture

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The norms, values, and beliefs of a society.

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Norm

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A norm is an expectation of how people will behave, and it takes the form of a rule that is socially rather than formally enforced.

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Political Culture

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Attitudes towards the political system and its various parts, and attitudes towards the role of the self in the system.

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Political Socialization

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The process through which an individual acquired their political norms, values and beliefs.

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Agents of socialization

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  • Family
  • School
  • Religion
  • Peers
  • Media
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Alienation

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The state of feeling stranger or separated from ones environment, work, products of work or self.

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Ethos

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Disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement.
-Core belief

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Two basic american ethia

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1) Democracy

2) Capitalism

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American Culture Characteristics

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  • Individualism
  • Joiners
  • Hyper-equality
  • Frontier Culture
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Suffrage

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The right of voting

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The Road to Suffrage

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  • 17th Amendment (1913) provided for the direct elections of senators.
  • 19th Amendment (1920) Expanded the right of suffrage to women.
  • 24th Amendment (1964) Made poll tax unconstitutional
  • 26th Amendment (1971) Expanded the right of suffrage to 18 yr olds. (During Vietnam War)
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Redistricting

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The redrawing of legislative districts to reflect changes in population and seat allotment to states.

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Gerrymandering

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The process of redistricting that favors one political party

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Redraw lines

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It is up to the state legislature every 10 years to redraw lines.

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Baker v. Carr (1962)

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Supreme Court ruling in which the state of Tennessee was forced to adhere to the one man one vote principle.

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Voter turnout

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The number of people who vote during an election.

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Elections

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  • Presidential Election

- Mid-term/off year elections

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INFORMATION

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60% of voters 2012 2016

50% of voters 2014 2018

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Australian Ballot

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Secret Ballot

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Safe Seat

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A legislative district drawn in such a manner that is effective it ensures dominance of one political party.
Safe seats are the products of Gerrymandering.

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Other forms of political participation

15% ppl contact their rep

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  • Contact Representative
  • Petitions
  • Protests
  • Civil disobedience
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Partisan

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a supporter of a political party

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Bipartisanship

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term referring to any bill, act or resolution in which both of the major political parties are supporting

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“Both sides of the aisle”

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Term referring to bipartisanship consensus on a bill or an act.

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“Crossing the aisle”

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when a politician of one party votes for legislation supported by the other political party and generally opposed by his own party.

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Divided Government

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When the political party of the president is different from the political party that controls one or both houses of Congress.

Democrats: Liberal
Republicans: Conservative

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Variations of political labels

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  • Yellow dog: A liberal Democrat
  • Blue dog: A moderate Democrat
  • Rino
  • Tea Party: Rep
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What philosophically delineates the two parties the most?

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Democrats believe in a more active role of government.

Strange federal government and weaker state government.

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MAJOR ISSUES

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  • Role of government
  • Abortion
  • Capital Punishment
  • Taxes: dem +, -reps
  • Social Programs: dem
  • Business Rep, Regulations Dem
  • States Rights
  • Gun Rights: Rep +, Dem -
  • Gay Rights
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Ideology

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Manner or the content of thinking characteristics of an individual, group or culture.

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Totalitarian

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Government controls all aspects of life

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Communism

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A totalitarian system of government based on the working class or proletariat

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Fascism

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A totalitarian system of government based on racism or nationalism.

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Ideological Spectrum

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-Communism
-Socialism
-Liberalism
-Conservatism
-Reactionaryism
-Fascism
CSLCRF

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Types of third parties and examples

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1) Ideological
ex. libetarians (tea party)
2) Personality
ex. Vote for the person not the party: Ross Perot
3) Issue oriented
ex. Green party

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Incumbency

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The condition of already holding an elected office.

  • runs for reelection
  • 90% of congress gets reelected
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Types of campaigns

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1) Nomination: Compete against your own party

2) General Election: Electoral college

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Primary Calendar

2012

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The schedule containing the different dates of states primaries and caucuses(delegates).
- Iowa 1st Caucus (tells who’s winning)

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Front loading

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-The tendencies of states to chose an early date on the primary calendar

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Super Tuesday

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when a large number of states have their primaries in order to make a greater impact on the nomination process

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Nominating Institutions

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1) Caucuses
- Conference/ Committee
- debate between delegates
- 5% of population can ve on the record

2) Primaries
- the vast majority of states have primaries
- pro-vote
- higher than caucus

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Two types of primaries

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1) closed: only registered party members can vote for the party nominee
2) Open: anyone who is registered can vote (any party)

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What type of system does CA have?

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Modifies Closed

up to the political party to decide

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National Convention

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A party meeting held in the presidential election year for the purpose of nominating a presidential and vide-presidential candidate as well as adopting a platform.

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Political Platform

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a formal statement of beliefs, opinions, and policies tied together by a set of underlying principles based on the party’s ideological orientation. The party platform tends to be relatively extremist.