7921621520 | Air Wars | The fact that modern campaigns are often a battle of opposing televised advertising campaigns. | ![]() | 0 |
7921630205 | Candidate- Centered Politics | Election campaigns and other political processes in which candidates, not political parties, have the initiative and influence. | 1 | |
7921701797 | Hard Money | Campaign contributions donated directly to candidates | ![]() | 2 |
7921725351 | Hired Guns | A term that refers to the professional consultants who run campaigns for high office | ![]() | 3 |
7921737906 | Money Chase | Describes the fact that the U.S. campaigns are very expensive and that candidates must spend a great deal of time raising funds in order to compete successfully | ![]() | 4 |
7921767077 | Nomination | The action of nominating or state of being nominated. | ![]() | 5 |
7921779256 | Packaging (of a candidate) | In modern campaigning, the process of recasting a candidate's record into an appealing image. | ![]() | 6 |
7921798087 | Party-Centered Politics | Election campaigns and other political processes in which political parties, not candidates, have the initiative and influence. | ![]() | 7 |
7921816763 | Party Organizations | The party organizational units at national, state, and local levels | ![]() | 8 |
7921829466 | Primary Election | A form of election in which votes choose a party's nominee for public office; in most primaries, eligibility to vote is limited to voters who are registered members of the party. | ![]() | 9 |
7921861694 | Service Relationship | The situation where party organizations assist candidates for office, but have no power to require them to accept or campaign on the party's main policy positions. | 10 | |
7921887962 | Soft Money | Money raised, not subject to legal limits, that is given to a political party for general purposes rather than giving directly to a candidate. | ![]() | 11 |
AP Civics Ch. 9 Flashcards
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