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| What does it mean to get nominated? |
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| Getting your name on the ballot. |
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| What are the 2 crucial phases in an election? |
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| Getting nominated and getting elected. |
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| Getting nominated is a(n) ______ effort. |
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| What must steps must you take in order to be considered for your party's nomination? |
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| Decide to run, raise money, collect signatures, and appeal to voters. |
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| Must those running in European nations follow the same steps? |
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| No, their party does the work. |
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| Do voters in Great Britain vote for a candidate or a party? |
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| Both are listed but they tend to vote party. |
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| The person already holding office. |
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| The alleged tendency of candidates to win more votes in an election because of the presence at the top of the ticket of a better known candidate. (ex. the president) |
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| A committee set up by a corp., labor union, or interest group that raises and spends campaign money from voluntary donations. |
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| Political action committee. |
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| What is the most obvious way in which presidential and congressional races differ? |
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| Who is "The Great Mentioner"? |
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| Federal law restricts the amount that an individual can give a candidate. That amount is $_______. |
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| To run for office requires a staff, which includes? |
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| Fund-raisers, lawyers, accountants, press-secretary, travel scheduler, advertising specialist, direct-mail company, pollster, volunteers. |
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| Drawing the boundaries of legislative districts so that they are unequal in population. |
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| Drawing the boundaries of legislative districts in bizarre or unusual shapes to favor one party. |
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| An increase in the votes congressional candidates usually get when they first run for reelection. |
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| An issue about which the public is united and rival candidates or political parties adopt similar positions in hopes that each will be thought to best represent those widely shared beliefs. |
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| An issue about which the public is divided and rival candidates or political parties adopt different policy positions. |
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| An election held to choose which candidate will hold office. |
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| An election held to choose candidates for office. |
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| A primary election in which voting is limited to already registered party members. |
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| A primary election in which voters may choose in which party to vote as they enter the polling place. |
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| A primary election in which each voter may vote for candidates from both parties. |
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| A second primary election held when no candidate wins a majority of the votes in the first primary. |
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| Spending by political action committees, corps, or labor unions that is done to help a party or candidate but is done independently of them. |
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| Independent expenditures. |
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| Funds obtained by political parties that are spent on party activities, such as get-out-there-vote drives, but not on behalf of a specific candidate. |
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| Organizations that, under section _____ of the Internal Revenue Code, raise and spend money to advance political causes are called 527 Organizations. |
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| Voting for a candidate because you favor his or her ideas for handling issues. |
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| Voting for a candidate because you like his or her past actions in office. |
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| No corp. may give money from its own treasury to any national political party. |
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