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| 229052378 | soft money | virtually unregulated money funneled through parties, banned in 2002 | |
| 229052379 | proportional representation | voting system that apportions legislative seats according to the percentage of the vote won by a party | |
| 229052380 | stratified sampling | variation of random sampling, country is split into 4 regions | |
| 229052381 | tracking polls | continuous surveys that enable a campaign to chart its daily rise or fall in support | |
| 229052382 | national party platform | statement of the general and specific philosophy and policy goals of a party | |
| 229052383 | secular realignment | gradual rearrangement of party coalitions, based on demographic shifts | |
| 229052384 | party realignment | shifting of party coalition groupings in the electorate that remains for several elections | |
| 229052385 | ticket-split | vote for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election | |
| 229052386 | civil service laws | acts removed the staffing of the bureaucracy from political parties and created a professional, competitive bureaucracy | |
| 229052387 | party identification | citizen's personal affinity for a party | |
| 229052388 | public opinion polls | interviews or surveys with samples of citizens that are used to estimate the beliefs of the general population | |
| 229052389 | political socialization | process through which individuals acquire their political beliefs | |
| 229052390 | margin of error | measure of the accuracy of a public opinion polls | |
| 229052391 | winner-take-all system | electoral system in which the party that receives at least one more vote than any other, wins | |
| 229052392 | random sampling | method of selection that gives each person in a group the same chance for selection | |
| 229052393 | organizational party | activists who make up the party's formal organizational structure | |
| 229052394 | political party | organized effort by office holders and voters to pursue common interests | |
| 229052395 | sample | subset of the whole population selected for gauging opinion | |
| 229052396 | straw polls | unscientific surveys used to predict public opinion on issues | |
| 229052397 | push polls | polls taken for the purpose of providing info on an opponent that would lead respondents to vote against said candidate | |
| 229052398 | dealignment | general decline in party identification and loyalty | |
| 229052399 | coalition | group made up of organizations that join forces for the purpose of electing public officials | |
| 229052400 | critical election | election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization | |
| 229052401 | candidate-centered politics | politics focused on candidates rather than party affiliation | |
| 229052402 | political machine | party that recruits voter loyalty with tangible incentives, very controlling | |
| 229052403 | think tank | collection of policy-oriented researchers and academics | |
| 229052404 | hard money | funds that can be used for direct electioneering but is regulated by the Federal Elections Commission | |
| 229052405 | direct primary | selection of party candidates through ballots of voters rather than at nominating conventions | |
| 229052406 | party in the electorate | voters who consider themselves allied with a party | |
| 229052407 | national convention | party meeting held for purposes of nominating a president and vice president for the ticket | |
| 229052408 | public opinion | what the public thinks about a particular issue at any point in time | |
| 229052409 | governmental party | office holders who organize themselves and pursue policy objectives under a party label | |
| 229052410 | political ideology | set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government | |
| 229052411 | exit polls | polls conducted as voters leave selected polling places on Election Day | |
| 229052412 | issue-oriented politics | politics that focus on specific issues rather than on parties |
