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Electoral process
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Conventions | Party meetings at the local state and national levels. |
Declare | Public step a candidate makes to the nation that they want to be president. |
Delegates | The candidates who will attend the national convention, the will vote for the candidate the state political party supports. |
Nominee | Delegates choice for their party and who will run in the nation election. |
Campaign | Process of gathering public support for a candidate. |
Popular vote | A tally of all the votes cast. |
Electoral college | Each state has a group of people called electors who cast the actual votes for president. |
Absolute majority | More than half the votes. |
Political party | An organized group of people who share similar political views and work to influence government. |
Write-in-candidates | A candidate whose name a voter must hand-write on the ballot. |
Public policy | The stand the government takes about how issues should be handled |
Minority Party | Political party that does not have a majority of the elected members. |
Third Party | A political party other than republican or democratic. |
Platform | set of statements describing a party's views on major issues |
Political views | A person's ideas about how government should run and how issues should or should not be solved |