AP Government - Chapter 8 Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Incumbent | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency of lesser-known or weaker candidates to profit in an election by the presence on the ticket of a more popular candidate.
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| Political Action Committee (PAC) | show 🗑
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| show | Drawing the boundaries of political districts so that districts are very unequal in population.
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| show | Drawing the boundaries of political districts in bizarre or unusual shapes to make it easy for candidates of the party in power to win elections in those districts.
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| show | An increase in the votes that congressional candidates usually get when they first run for reelection.
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| Position Issue | show 🗑
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| Valence Issue | show 🗑
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| show | An election used to fill an elective office.
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| show | An election prior to the general election in which voters select the candidates who will run on each party's ticket.
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| Closed Primary | show 🗑
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| show | A primary election that permits voters to choose on election day the primary in which they wish to vote. They may vote for candidates of only one party.
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| Blanket Primary | show 🗑
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| Runoff Primary | show 🗑
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| show | A primary held to select delegates to the presidential nominating conventions of the major parties and is held before presidential elections
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| show | Spending by political action commttees of political matters that is done directly and not by givnig money to a candidate or party.
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| Soft money | show 🗑
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| Prospective Voting | show 🗑
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| Retrospective Voting | show 🗑
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