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| 5132196422 | Nomination | The official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party. | 0 | |
| 5132196423 | Campaign Strategy | The master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign | 1 | |
| 5132196424 | National Party Convention | The supreme power within each of the parties. The convention meets every 4 years to nominate the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates and write the parties platform. | 2 | |
| 5132196425 | McGovern-Fraser Convention | A commission formed at the 1968 Democratic Convention in response to demands for reform by minority groups and others who sought better representation. | 3 | |
| 5132196426 | Superdelegates | National party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the national party convention. | 4 | |
| 5132196427 | Invisible Primary | The period before any votes are cast when candidates compare to win early support from the elite of the party and to create a positive first impression of their leadership skills. | 5 | |
| 5132196428 | Caucus | A system for selecting convention delegates used in about a dozen states in which voters must attend an open meeting to express their presidential preference. | 6 | |
| 5132196429 | Presidential Primaries | Elections in which a state's voters go to the polls to express their preference for a party's nominee for president. Most delegates to the national party conventions are chosen this way. | 7 | |
| 5132196430 | Frontloading | The recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention. | 8 | |
| 5132196431 | Party Platform | A political party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years. | 9 | |
| 5132196432 | Direct Mail | A method of raising money for a political cause or candidate, in which information and requests for money are sent to people whose names appear on lists of those who have supported similar views or candidates in the past. | 10 | |
| 5132196433 | Campaign Contributions | Donations that are made directly to a candidate or a party and that must be reported to the FEC | 11 | |
| 5132196434 | Independent Expenditures | Expenses on behalf of a political message that are made by groups that are uncoordinated with any candidate's campaign. | 12 | |
| 5132196435 | Federal Election Campaign Act | A law passed in 1974 for reforming campaign finances. The act created the Federal Election Commission and provided for limits on and disclosure of campaign contributions. | 13 | |
| 5132196436 | Political Action Committees | Groups that's raise money from individuals and then distribute it in the form of contributions to candidates that's the group supports. | 14 | |
| 5132196437 | Federal Election Commission | A six member bipartisan agency created by the Federal Election Campaign Of 1974. The Federal Election Commission administers and enforces campaign finance laws. | 15 | |
| 5132196438 | Soft Money | Political contributions earmarked for party-building expenses at the grassroots level or for generic party advertising. For a time, such contributions were unlimited, until they were banned by the McCain-Feingold Act. | 16 | |
| 5132196439 | 527 Groups | Independent political groups that are not subject to contribution restrictions because they are not directly related to candidates | 17 | |
| 5132196440 | Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission | A 2010 supreme court case that ruled that individuals, corporations, and unions could donate as much money as they want to corporations that make independent expenditures. | 18 | |
| 5132196441 | 501 (c) Groups | Groups that are exempted from reporting their contributions & can receive unlimited contributions. | 19 | |
| 5132196442 | Super PACs | Independent expenditure-only PACs, they can accept donations of any size & can endorse candidates. | 20 | |
| 5132196443 | Selective Perception | The phenomenon that people's beliefs often guide what they pay the most attention to and how they interpret events. | 21 | |
| 5132196444 | Suffrage | The legal right to vote, gradually extended to virtually all citizens over the age of 18. | 22 | |
| 5132196445 | Political Efficacy | The belief that ones political participation really matters that ones vote can make a difference. | 23 | |
| 5132196446 | Civic duty | The belief that in order to support democratic government, a citizen should vote. | 24 | |
| 5132196447 | Voter registration | A system adopted by the state's that requires voters to register prior to voting. | 25 | |
| 5132196448 | Motor voter act | A 1993 act that requires states to permit people to register to vote when they apply for a driver's license. | 26 | |
| 5132196449 | Mandate theory of Elections | The idea that the winning candidate has a mandate from the people to carry out his or her platform or politics. | 27 | |
| 5132196450 | Policy voting | Electoral choices that are made on the basis of the voters policy preference and where the candidates stand on policy issues. | 28 | |
| 5132196451 | Electoral college | An American institution created by the constitution, providing for the selection of the president by electors chosen by the state parties. | 29 | |
| 5132196452 | Battleground States | The key states that the presidential campaign focus on because they are most likely to decide the outcome of the electoral college vote. | 30 |
