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| 5999041673 | Winner-take-all system | An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins. | 0 | |
| 5999041674 | Single-member district | An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official. | 1 | |
| 5999041675 | Proportional representation | Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote. | 2 | |
| 5999041676 | Electoral College | Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president, in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates. | 3 | |
| 5999041677 | Safe seat | Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other, so the success of the party's candidate is almost taken for granted. | 4 | |
| 5999041678 | Coattail effect | The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot, especially the president. | 5 | |
| 5999041679 | Candidate appeal | How voters feel about a candidate's background, personality, leadership ability, and other personal qualities. | 6 | |
| 5999041680 | Name recognition | Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them, and incumbents are more recognizable. | 7 | |
| 5999041681 | Caucus | A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform. | 8 | |
| 5999041682 | National party convention | A national meeting of delegates elected at primaries, caucuses, or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president, ratify the party platform, elect officers, and adopt rules. | 9 | |
| 5999041683 | Federal Election Commission (FEC) | A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of campaign finance information and public funding of presidential elections, and enforcing contribution limits. | 10 | |
| 5999041684 | Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act | Largely banned party soft money, restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes, and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy. | 11 | |
| 5999041685 | Soft money | Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. | 12 | |
| 5999041686 | Issue advocacy | Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate, and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation. | 13 | |
| 5999041687 | Independent expenditures | Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office. | 14 | |
| 5999041688 | Super PACs | An independent expenditure only committee first allowed in 2010 after court decisions allowing unlimited contributions to such PACs. | 15 |
