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Electoral Process
Vocabualy
Question | Answer |
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Conventions | Party meetings at the local state and nationallevles |
Declare | Public step a candidate makes to the nation that they want t be president |
Delegates | The candidates who who will attend the national conviction, they will vote for the candidate the state political party support |
Nominee | Delegates choice for their party and who will run in the national election |
Campaign | Process of gathering public support for a candidate |
Popular Vote | A tally of all votes casts |
Electoral Collage | Each state have a group of people called electors who cast the actual votes for president |
Absolute Majority | More than half the votes |
Political Parties | An organized group of people who share similar political view and work to influence government |
Write-in-candidates | A candidate whose name a voter must hand-write on the ballet |
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 the Republican and Democrat |
Platform | Set of statements describing an party's views on major issues |
Political Views | A person's ideas about how government should run and how the issues should be solved |