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NominationsElections

And MoneyPolling Mass Media

AnythingGoes

Raiding, Responsive to party and thoughtful

votes are reasons people support a [Blank] Primary

What is a

Closed Primary

Give one of two reasons people

oppose a Closed Primary

What are

Fear of exposing voters

Exclude Independents

Give 3 of the 5 ways a candidate can be nominated.

What are:

Self Announcement

Caucus

Convention

Direct Primary

Petition

A regularly scheduled election at which voters make the final

selection of office holders

What is a general election

What is why the General Election is on the

Tuesday after the first Monday of November

What is a

Runoff Primary

So that it does not occur on a payday

or a Sunday.

What is why the General Election is on the

Tuesday after the first Monday of November

Voting by mail

What is Absentee Voting

Printed at public expense, list all names of all

candidates, only given at polls, and marked in secret.

What is an Australian Ballot

Give 3 of the 5 main sources of

campaign funds in American Politics

What are:

Small contributors

Wealthy Individuals/Families

Candidates (Incumbents or not)

PAC groups

Temporary Organizations (formed for Immediate purpose of campaigns)

Disclosure of finances, limits of campaign contributions, limits of expenditure, and providing public

funding for parts of the presidential election process fall

under this Commision.

What is the FEC

Federal Election Commission

For what reason are people’s opinions on rock

groups, sports teams, food, and clothing style are not example of public opinion.

What is those subjects have nothing to do with politics or

government

List 3 of the 6 agents of political

socialization.

What are:

Family

Schools

The Media

Peer Groups

Opinion Leaders

Historic Events

This the term used when you are setting the parameters on the

population you wish to poll.

What is Defining the Universe

Give 3 of the 4 types of controlled polling given by your book?

What are phone, letter, online, and

door-to-door polling

Simply asking the same question to a

large number individuals is called

this.

What is a

Straw Vote Poll

3 of the 4 mediums of Mass

Media

What are television, newspapers, radio

and magazines (soon the Internet)

A snappy report that can be aied in

30-45 seconds

What is a “sound bite.”

Term used to describe societal problems that political leaders and general public agree

upon.

What is Public Agenda

There are one of these in 98% of all households in America. In fact, more

homes have one of these, than have indoor plumbing

What is a television

Other than the Public Agenda, Mass Media

plays a role in this political process.

What is Electoral Politics

The acronym BCRA stands for

this.

What is the Bipartisan Campaign

Reformation Act

Every campaign needs this more

than anything else.

What is Money

Suffrage means this.

What is the Right to Vote

Name the two first parties of the

United States of America

What are the Federalists and the Democrats

Best Quarterback in the History of

Football.

Who is Joe Montana