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Social Studies T
social studies test note cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| General Election | elections in which voters make final decisions about the candidates and issues. |
| registration | the process of signing up to be a voter |
| direct mail | A way of sending messages to large groups of people through the mail |
| media | television, radio, newspaper, magazines, and internet |
| propaganda | A message that is meant to influence your ideas, opinions, and actions in a certain way. |
| bias | A favoring of one point of view |
| campaign manager | The person who helps plan the broad outlines of the campaign: where to go, what issues to discuss, and what image to put forth. |
| Campaign Press Secretary | some one who makes certain that the media shows the candidate in the best light. |
| Incumbant | Is someone who already holds office for which he or she is running, has a very good chance of winning again |
| Electors | People who promise to cast votes for the candidate selected by the voters |
| Patronage | The system in which party leaders perform favors for loyal supporters of the party |
| Straight ticket | a ballot cast for all the candidates of one party |
| split ticket | the practice of voting for candidates of more than one party on the same ballot |
| Independent voters | people who don't support a particular political party |
| Self nomination | declaring that you are running for office |
| Write in candidate | is one who asks voter to write his or her name on the ballot |
| Direct primary | is an election in which members of a political party choose candidates to run for office in the name of that party |
| Closed primary | a primary in which a voter must be registered as a party member and may vote only in that party's primary |
| open primary | a primary in which voters do not need to declare a party before voting, but they may vote in only one party's primary |
| caucus | a meeting of party leaders to discuss issues or to choose candidates |
| Political Party | an organization of citizens who wish to influence and control government by getting their member elected to office |
| nominate | to name candidates to run for public office |
| platform | a statement of a party's official stand on major public issues |
| planks | they make up platforms. A is a position statement on each specific issue in a party's platform. |
| canvass | to go door to door handing out info. and asking people which candidates they support |
| precinct | communities are divided into these, "these" are voting districts |
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Maureen Passarelli
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