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Chapter 9 Vocabulary
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- 1Nomination –The official endorsements of a candidate for office by a political party
- 2Campaign Strategy –The master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign
- 3National Party Convention –The supreme power within each of the parties
- 4Caucus –A meeting of all state party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party convention
- 5Presidential Primaries –Elections in which voters in a state vote for a candidate (or delegates pledged to him or her)
- 6McGovern-Fraser Commission –A commission formed at the 1968 Democratic convention in response to demands for reform by minority groups and others who sought better representation
- 7Superdelegates –National party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the Democratic national party convention
- 8Frontloading –The recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention
- 9National Primary –A proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries to replace these electoral methods with a nationwide primary held early in the election year
- 10Regional Primaries –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
- 11Party Platform –A political party’s statement of its goals and policies for the next four years
- 12Direct Mail –A high-tech method of raising money for a political cause or candidate
- 13Federal Election Campaign Act –A law passed in 1974 for reforming campaign finances
- 14Federal Election Commission –A six-member bipartisan agency created by the Federal Campaign Act of 1974
- 15Presidential Election Campaign Fund –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
- 16Matching Funds –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
- 17Soft Money –Political contributions earmarked for party-building expenses at the grassroots level or for generic party advertising
- 18527 Groups –Independent groups that seek to influence the political process but are not subject to contribution restrictions because they do not directly seek the election of particular candidates
- 19Political Action Committees –Funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms
- 20Selective Perception –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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