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| 6734335013 | Presidential 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. | 0 | |
| 6734335015 | Political Action Committees | Funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms. A corporation, union, or some other interest group can create these. | 1 | |
| 6734335017 | Super PACs | were made possible by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010, which allowed unlimited spending by corporations, unions and individuals through these organizations, as long as the groups do not coordinate their spending with the candidates. Mn. | 2 | |
| 6734335018 | General Election | a national or state election | 3 | |
| 6734335019 | McCain-Feingold Act | ban soft money contributions, increase amount that individuals could give candidates from $1000 to $2000, prevented issue ads within 60 days of general elections | 4 | |
| 6734335020 | Nomination | The official endorsement of a candidate for office by a political party | 5 | |
| 6734335021 | Campaign Strategy | The master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign | 6 | |
| 6734335022 | National Party Convention | Meets every four years to nominate candidates and write party platform | 7 | |
| 6734335023 | Caucus | A meeting of all state party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party convention | 8 | |
| 6734335024 | Presidential Primaries | Elections in which voters in a state vote for a candidate (or delegates pledged to him or her) | 9 | |
| 6734335025 | McGovern-Fraser Commission | Formed at the 1968 Democratic convention in response to demands for reform by minority groups and others who sought better representation | 10 | |
| 6734335026 | Superdelegates | National party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the national convention | 11 | |
| 6734335027 | Frontloading | The recent tendency for states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention | 12 | |
| 6734335028 | National Primary | A proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries who would replace these electoral methods with a nationwide primary held early in the election year | 13 | |
| 6734335029 | Regional Primaries | Proposal to replace caucuses and primaries with a series of primaries held in each geographic area | 14 | |
| 6734335030 | Party Platform | A political party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years | 15 | |
| 6734335031 | Direct Mail | A high-tech method of raising money for a political cause or candidate | 16 | |
| 6734335032 | Federal Election Campaign Act | Created the Federal Election Commission | 17 | |
| 6734335033 | Federal Election Commission | Administers the campaign finance laws and enforces compliance with their requirements | 18 | |
| 6734335036 | Selective Perception | The phenomenon that people often pay the most attention to things they already agree with and interpret them according to their own predispositions | 19 | |
| 7957754722 | Hard Money | contributions that are given directly to candidates for their campaigns for Congress or the White House, are in a limited amount, and must be reported | 20 | |
| 7957754723 | Soft Money | funds given to parties or to other political organizations, in unlimited amounts, to be used for such "party-building activities" | 21 |
