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November 14- death
AHHH political parties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| As people get older vote for | republican |
| more education vote for | republican |
| lower income vote for | democrat |
| Which election brings out the most voters? | presidential |
| Most voters straight or split ticket voting? | straight |
| percent of house members | going down- more members for a longer time |
| House incumbants winning reelection less or grater than senate? | greater- (senate is smaller) |
| Do most open seat elections go to democrats or republicans? | republicans |
| Does the president's party gain or lose seats in midterm elections | lose (midterm is an off year) |
| Why are there more Democratic votes cast in 1992 primaries than in 1996? | republican- Bush (incumbant- less primaries) |
| Why was there a drop in both the # of primaries and votes cast for the republican party in 1984? | reagan |
| Who was Karl Rove relying on to win election? | conservative social base |
| What did Rove have in place to check exit pill info? | key precincts- own system of moderating votes |
| How many years had Rove been working towards Republican majority? | 30 years |
| What was the "Young conservatives woodstock"? | presidential campaign of Goldwater |
| Where did Rove grow up? | Salt lake City |
| What political org. did Rove join in college? | college republicans |
| What 3 campaign tech. did Rove use? | direct mail, phone banks, get out the vote activities |
| Who was the ex. director of Christian Coalition? | Ralph Reed |
| Who was Rove's mentor? | Lee Atwater |
| What is Rove in charge of? | senior advisor- charge of policies and politics |
| What are the labor unions of the conservative right? | churches |
| What problem did Bush have to handle at 2000 campaign? | conviciton of drunk driving |
| How did stem cell mend the fence with religious right? | doing things for people who elected him |
| What percentage swing voter? | 7% (Rove didn't care about them) |
| What groundbreaking action did Rove take in 02 elections? | commercial marketing |
| Why want subscriber list to field and stream (Rove)? | republicans hunting |
| What news network associated with republicans? | FOX |
| What was the 72 hour task force? | designed to turn at base (get voters out) |
| what event changed bush presidency? | 9-11 |
| How long had it been since the presiden't party picked up congressional seats in a midterm election? | not since 1934 |
| What state did Rove go to in attempting to realign the Republican party? | texas |
| What senatorial candidate did Rove start to work for in Texas? | George HW Bush |
| How did Rove want to change in the Texas Republican Party? | build it from scratch |
| What are anger points? | hot button issues |
| 50% or republican funds go to? | attacking ads |
| What anger point in Texas in 80s? | TORT reform |
| four issues Rove wanted Bush campaign to focus on | welfare reform, educational reform, juvenile justice, tort reform |
| Where does Rove attack? | strengths of opponents |
| Who gave Bush campaign run for money in 2000? | McCain |
| What primary did Bush comeback | south caroline (got tougher and more focused- underground campaign) |
| When did Bush campaign start 2004? | right after got back to white house 2002 |
| What pattern in Kerry campaign? | attack strengths, find 3rd party |
| What small group of voters support bush | vietnam veterans |
| Where did Rove take election issue to? | swift votes |
| What does Rove understand about politics? | goes in cycles, not static |
| Front end loading | primaries stacked up one on top of the other (too fast) |
| PAC | political action committee |
| Electorial college | go to National convention- represent state votes on proportional basus |
| reagan coalition | getting people to vote split ticket |
| New Deal Coalition | groups of people vote straight ticket |
| 1964 election | Goldwater/ Johnson- southern whites leave democratic party |
| goldwater | lost in 1964, starts the modern conservative party |
| caucus | group of people with same interests/ type of primary |
| negative ads | tells bad things about candidate |
| direct mailing | republicans target specific groups of people |
| new hampshire primary | bush lost, second primary |
| Willie Horton Ad | negative racist ad |
| favorite son | their state's governor or party chairman (nominated to be prez but has no intention to do so) |
| gridlock | when the prez is one party and congress is another |
| metrics | identifying groups of people through their social interests |
| advocacy ad | 527 ad- done by group of people not candidate |
| 527 committees | make ads, can spend as much $ as they want- can't be taxed for a political reson |
| malapportionment | districts don't have the same # of peoplein them (small districts underrepresented) |
| Gerrymandering | to divide up a group of people to your favor or disadvantage |
| soft money | to aid education of voter/cash, checks, not recorded donations by the FEC |
| Smoke filled rooms | image of national convention in 50's 60's |
| open seat | seat in congress up for election |
| How strong are political parties? | WEAK |
| process taken hold of the presidential nominating system | the primaries |
| What is the role of a candidates handlers? | appeal to ethnic groups |
| determining factor to who becomes party nominee? | television |
| coalition voting | represents larger group of people |
| Party's platform | ideas of the party discuss what match with national issues |
| Stampede a convention | encouraging nomination with large # of hired supporters |
| heroes in the 30's | had to accomplish something |
| how many hours of conventions on air in '52? | 150 |
| Truman nominating stevenson- what role? | none decided not to run |
| Why is Kennedy fearful of losing the nomination if he does not win on the first ballot? | thought he wouldn't win 2nd or 3rd because not obligated to vote on those 2 |
| Who decided Kennedy would be democratic nominee? | Mayor Daily |
| Why should Nixon have won debate? | experience, confidence, better known |
| What are 2 different systems that developed in 60s? | television, traditional system (open process) |
| How did the Republican convention in 1968 differ from the democratic one? | protestors- end the war at convention |
| tv impact on convention | had to change ethnic background of party |
| Why did democrats change in 1972? | created a quota- ethnic |
| What did candidate's learn about new way of electing party nominee? | learned that they could ignore the party- once it loses power they didn't need it- could use TV |
| How did Monale spin Super Tuesday? | he got his people to the media first- didn't have to go to political bosses |
| Why are national conventions less controversial? | scripted, seperation between party and candidate |
| Whay are eraly primaties so important today? | delegates would count for more |
| Why isn't california important to a presidental candidate? | last elections- too late (everything was already decided) |
| What is wrong with Iowa as an early primary? | not really represented- mostly white, agriculture, higher illiteracy rate- too much power when not a part of country as a whole |
| political parties are | not part of the constitution, start in 1789, organize political thoughts into action |
| person running | must associate with political party- could run as independent |
| florida elections commition | resident petitions |
| 3 types of primaries | caucus, open, closed |
| purpose of primaries | to reduce # of candidates to 1 |
| caucus | registered voters meet in public place, 3 hours, too long |
| open | any politcal party, everyone gets dame ballot, doesn't work because allows others to vote for "dumb one" |
| closed | most popular, democrats get ballot with democrats on it, ind. can't vote |
| general elections | 1st tuesday in November |
| third parties | never stay around long because can't win by 51% |
| political parties candidates | have to declare they are running 2 years before |
| first 3 state primaries | iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina |
| no first ballot | vote on proportional basis |
| who takes on incumbant in primaries? | noone |
| super tuesday | when 6 southern states hold their primary on the same day |
| day 1 convention | delegates come |
| day 2 convention | platform- ideas of political party reflect candidates ideas |
| day 3 convention | vote- winner announces VP |
| day 4 convention | nominess give acceptance speech- off to campaign |
| whistle stop tour | train |
| stump speech | speech given over and over til gets old |
| direct contact with voers | phone, mail, email, TV |
| 3 different types of ads | positive, negative, 527 |
| retrospective voting | what have you done? |
| prosepctive voting? | what will you do? |
| 537 votes | 100 senate, 435 Hr, and 2 dist. of columbia |
| number of electorial votes | never straw vote- opinion of people |
| main majority | still legal inless too blatant |
| Campaign reform act of 1977 | remove rich company's giving $ to campaign. increase participation of middle class |
| hard money | limit $100 in cash per candidate, checks less than $250, can't give $2000,immediate family-no restrictions on $ |
| FEC | federal elections commission |
| clinton advocacy ads | way for rich to legally donate ad much $ as they wanted |
| PACS | any 50 people can start one, surrounds 1 issue, must give $ to a minimum of 5 candidates per 2 years, most located in DC |
| 4 types of pacs | corporate, unions, leadership, single |
| corporate pacs | support the unuions |
| union pacs | pac must support workers |
| single paces | hot button social issues |
| leadership pacs | controlled by 1 person, give congrss $ to other candidates, influence other elected officials |
| 80's | some unions- teamsters union (truck drivers) go republican |
| gingrich | restored power to committee chairpersons |
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