z: ch 9 final

Question 1

nomination

Answer 1

the official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party. generally success in the nomination game requires momentum money and media attention

Question 2

campaign strategy

Answer 2

the master game plan candidates lau out to guide their electoral campaign

Question 3

campaign

Answer 3

done by a political party to help an endorsed candidate with an election

Question 4

national party convention

Answer 4

the supreme power within each of the parties. the convention meets every 4 years to nominate the party’s presidential candidates and to write the party’s platform.

Question 5

caucuses

Answer 5

a meeting of all states party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party convention. caucuses are usually organized as a pyramid (1st: Iowa)

the party pays for this

Question 6

primaries

Answer 6

elections in which voters in a state vote for a candidate (or delegate pledged to him or her) most delegates to the national party conventions are chose this way (1st: New Hampshire) frontloading

the state gov pays for this.

Question 7

political action committees

Answer 7

finding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms. A corporation or some other interest group created a PAC and registers it with the federal election commission, which will monitor the PAC’s expenditures.

masks who is giving a candidate money

Question 8

McCain-Feingold Act

Answer 8

1. banner soft money
2. increased amount individuals can contribute
3. limited issue ads

was found unconstitutional
- Citizens United v Federal election Commission

Question 9

Campaign financing

Answer 9

individuals are allowed to contribute any amount to a campaign after McCain-Feingold was declared unconstitutional by the SC case of citizens united v FEC. the FEC still can keep tabs on campaign contributions.

TV ads make up more than 1/2 of the budget
—> Ike for president