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Unit 6 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| campaign | An orgainized effert to gather support for a candidate |
| conervative | A political ideology in witch aperson wants to keep things the way the are, and want lees change. They perfer a small governmentwith less social programs, and more individulal responsibility for success. |
| convassing | Going thru neighborhoods asking for votes or taking puplic opinion polls. |
| intersets groups | poeple with simular points of view who work together to promote that piont of view. |
| referendum | An election in witch voters can approve or reject a local or state law |
| precinet | A geographical area that contains a specific number of voters. |
| bias | A one sided or slanted point of view. |
| propaganda | Technique used to promote a particular person or idea. |
| candidate | A person seeking an elected government office. |
| platform | A political party’s statement of its goals and positions on public issues. It is made up of a series of planks. |
| liberal | A political party’s statement of its goals and positions on public issues. It is made up of a series of planks. |
| political action commitiee | An organization established to raise money to support an issue or candidate. |
| nominate | To choose a candidate to run for political office. |
| lobbying | An organized effort to persuade government officials to support a particular group or position on an issue. |
| political center group | Political center- moderate: A political ideology in which a person’s opinions and beliefs are not strong or extreme. The majority of Americans fall into this category. |
| striaght ticket | The practice of voting for all the candidates of one political party. |
| edidorials | a writing or cartoon based on opinion of political events that is published in a newspaper or magazine and is designed to promote discussion about an issue. |
| covention | a large gathering of people who share a common interest including formal gatherings of people for political purposes. |
| plank | An item of a political party’s platform. Specific statements about how a political party’s stand on the issues. |
| caucus | A meeting of political party members to conduct party business. Usually to nominate a candidate to run for office. |
| popular vote | Votes cast directly by the people. |
| split ticket | The practice of voting for candidates of different political parties in an election. |
| recall | An elections in which voters can remove a public official from office. |
| political party | An organization made up of people who share similar issues about the way the country should be governed. |
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