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Voters And Voting Flashcards

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Is the right to vote a civil liberty?

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It is not a civil liberty, it is a political right

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What two things mean the right to vote?

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Suffrage and the franchise

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Define electorate

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Those eligible to vote. Roughly 2/3 of the United States

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Who sets suffrage qualifications

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States, but the constitution places five restrictions

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What is the 15th amendment

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No state can deny a person the right to vote by race, color, previous servitude

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What is the 19th amendment

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No state can deny a person the right to vote by gender

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What’s the 23rd amendment

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People in Washington DC can vote

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What is the 24th amendment

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No state to require a poll tax

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What’s the 26th amendment

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No state may deprive a person 18 and older a right to vote

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What are ways states can limit voting

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Are they citizens?
Enter are they residents?
you must register to be a voter 
Transients can't vote
Some states allow 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections if they will be 18 during the general election
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Can aliens vote

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Not currently

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What is the average residency in order to vote

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30 days

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Why is there voter registration

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To prevent voter fraud

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What are transients

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Someone who moves around. The military is exempt

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Which state allows 17-year-olds to vote if they’ll be 18 on the day of the presidential election

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Nebraska

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How early must you register before an election

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30 days

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What states allow same-day registration to vote

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Maine and Wisconsin

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How many eligible voters vote

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Less than a half

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How many of those who vote are nonvoting voters

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Approximately 12%

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What is a nonvoting voter

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Someone who doesn’t vote complete vote

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When are nonvoting voters more common

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For state elections and in the top half of the ballot

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When do more people vote

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In presidential year elections, and in general elections

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What are reasons for nonvoting?

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Handicapped, hospitalized, in jail, religious beliefs restricted, race or religion discrimination, traveling

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What are examples of nonvoters

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The system is meaningless, they don’t matter
Those who believe if they vote it won’t matter in the end
Their vote won’t make a difference, and they want world peace
The procedures are too cumbersome
They’re apathetic

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What is the number one reason for not voting

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Apathy

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what are sociological characteristics of people who vote

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Higher income

Higher education, higher occupational status, married people, between 35 and 65

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What is a psychological factor of people who vote

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They identify with a party

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What are characteristics of people who vote

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ballots are competitive and therefore more interesting, community pressure, they have a sense of political efficacy, white

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Why was the 15th amendment ignored for 90 years

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The Supreme Court said it didn’t apply to voting in states

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What is the voting rights act

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It ended the use of Jim Crow laws

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What were Jim Crow laws

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Laws designed to prevent blacks from voting

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How did the voting rights act change voting

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The number of people who voted substantially increased

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What are split ticket voters

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Those who don’t identify with the party

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What party is rapidly growing and has one third of all three party votes

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Independent

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What are demographic factors of those who vote

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They are millennials, single women, minorities

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What are millennials

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People born since 1980

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36
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What don’t you need to win an election anymore

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A white man’s vote, because that minorities and single women are growing rapidly and voting more

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What is a vote to the future

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Mandate

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38
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What is the vote on the past

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Verdict

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39
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What are most elections about

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Money and the economy

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What are the three types of elections

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The party primary, general election, referendum

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What type of election is for nominees

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Party primary

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What is an election for officeholders

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A general election, the winner will take the office

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What type of election is for legislation

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Referendum

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44
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What is a referendum

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People, not legislators voting on a bill

45
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What is the initiative

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Voters, through petition, propose a law for referendum

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What is a caucus

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Where leaders of a party cheese nominees

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What are primary elections

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When the party selects nominees for an election

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What are the three types of primary elections

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Closed primary, open primary, blanket primary

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What is a closed primary

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It can only be voted in by registered members of the party

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What is an open primary

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You don’t have to be registered in a party to vote for that party

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What is a blanket primary

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When all parties are listed on one Ballot

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Who runs against each other

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All Republicans and all Democrats

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Who votes in primaries

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The largest supporters of a party

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Why do blanket elections cost less Then other primaries

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Because they only have one election

55
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What showed that only a few people fund entire elections

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Nixon and the Watergate scandal

56
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What did the federal election campaign act of 1971 try to do

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Regulate Hard money, set reporting requirements and limit donations, create the Federal election commission, give federal financing

57
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What is hard money

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Money given directly to a candidate or campaign

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What is a reporting requirement

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You must report transactions more than $100 pertaining to an election

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What is the Federal election commission

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An agency created to monitor elections

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What is federal financing

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Money given toward an election campaign, but only if your party has 5% or more of the vote in the previous election

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What case said limting the amount of money spent or donated by a person in a campaign violated the First Amendment-free speech

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Buckley versus Valeo

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What is a loophole to hard money

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Soft money

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What is soft money

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Money spent on behalf of a party or candidate without their knowledge and without going to them

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What tried to eliminate soft money, raise limits for Hard money, and said corporations unions and interest groups can’t run a political act within 60 days of the general election

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McCain Finegold

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What is a political action committee (pac)?

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A group making a donation for more than $100 for each election. Usually formed out of existing groups

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What is bundling

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Sending lump donations. More money speaks louder in a campaign

67
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What is a 527

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A nonprofit charity. It is a loophole and you can have unlimited money for election

68
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What case took limits from corporations, saying they can now donate infinite money to campaigns instead of being treated like people

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Citizens United versus Federal election commission

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What’s a super PAC

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A large group not incrimination with the campaign or candidate creating issues. The ads suggest but do not state to vent for a candidate

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What is an interest group

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A group trying to influence the government

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What does the electoral college only apply to

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The presidential election

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Is the electoral college biased in favor of large or small states

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Small

73
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How many votes from the electoral college must you have to win

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270

74
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What do you need to win the electoral vote

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To win the right states, not the popular vote

75
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What is the electoral college a result of

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Compromise between sovereign citizens versus sovereign states

76
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What are three different arguments for the electoral college

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If it ain’t broke don’t fix it,
The electoral college exists because federal system; states elect the president not voters,
preserves the two party system and third-party cannot win

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What says all electors vote for a candidate with the most votes

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Unit rule

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What is political efficacy

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If you feel your votes count

79
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What is an Australian ballot

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Government printed, private ballot

80
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What is a red blue America

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It’s states being categorized as Republican or Democrat

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What does dyed in the wool mean

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You were strictly for one party

82
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What does straight ticket mean

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You only vote for one party

83
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What is partisanship

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You’re partial towards one party

84
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What are the five restrictions on the power that states have to set the right to vote

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The 15th amendment, 19th amendment, 24th amendment, 26th amendment, you can vote for Congress if you vote for the largest party of state legislature

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What is the coattail effect

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People are more likely to be elected from the winning party

86
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What is the turn out for midterm elections

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Poor

87
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What is an office group ballot

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You do not have the option to vote for all of one party at the same time

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What is the party column ballot

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You have the option to vote for all of one party at once

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What is a splinter party

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A party that splits off from the main party

90
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What is the campaign strategy in primaries?

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Get well-known, and win early

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What is a dark horse

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The candidate who blindsides their competitors

92
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What is an invisible primary

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It’s when you don’t flat out say that she’s going to run

93
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What is frontloading

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Pushing a primary earlier to get more publicity

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What is super Tuesday

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The day that most primaries of the south are held on

95
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What case since money isn’t limited take oneself in campaigns

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Buckley versus Valeo

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Why are conventions held

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To decide nominees

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What is a balanced ticket

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When a ticket is balanced with one candidate having a running mate with a different demographic

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What is the RNC

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The Republican national committee

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What is the DNC

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Democratic national committee

100
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What is a pac

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It’s what interest groups use to transfer hard money to candidates

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What is political machine

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It’s a “get out the vote organization” for party

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What is endorsement

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When a race dropout endorses another candidate

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What is fat cat

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A wealthy political contributor

104
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What is the coalition

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When minorities join together to become a majority

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What is bellwether

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It’s a state that predicts the national power

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What is plurality

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When you get the most, but not the majority vote

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What is a runoff election

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Extra election to determine the winner

108
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What is the number one indicator of if a person will vote

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There in a party

109
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What is the number one indicator of how a person will vote

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How their spouse votes

110
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Why is the Democratic Party growing

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Because the minority groups are growing

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What is the bad part of primaries

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Mostly political extremists vote in primaries, therefore political extremists win

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