Elections and Campaigns
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| show | A primary election in which each voter may vote for candidates from both parties.
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| show | Landmark 1976 decision on campaign finance law that upheld the Federal Election Campaign Act's disclosure requirements, contribution limits, and provision for public funding of presidential election campaigns.
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| Bush vs. Gore (2000) | show 🗑
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| Caucus (especially Iowa) | show 🗑
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| Closed Primary | show 🗑
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| show | The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate so votes for the less objectionable of the two, putting a "clothespin" over his/her nose to keep out the unpleasant stench.
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| show | An election which causes dramatic change in the political system.
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| Federal Election Campaign Act (1974) | show 🗑
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| show | An independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing federal campaign finance law. the FEC was established by the 1974 amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.
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| show | Money supplied to campaign funds from public resources and administered by the Federal Election Committee.
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| show | The practice of scheduling state party caucuses and primaries earlier every year. By moving these dates back, states hope to lend decisive momentum to one or two presidential candidates and thus have disproportionate influence on each party's nomination.
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| show | The execution of a front-loaded campaign.
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| General Election | show 🗑
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| show | Money regulated by law and can be used to influence the outcome of federal elections, that is, to advocate the election of specific candidates.
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| Incumbent | show 🗑
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| Open Primary | show 🗑
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| PAC/Political Action Committee | show 🗑
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| show | An issue about which the public is divided and rival candidates or political parties adopt different policy positions.
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| show | An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide political party primary elections.
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| Primary Election | show 🗑
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| show | Voting for a candidate because you favor his/her ideas for handling issues.
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| show | Research done in order to discover damaging or detrimental information about somebody.
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| Retrspective Voting | show 🗑
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| Runoff Primary | show 🗑
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| Smith vs. Allwright (1944) | show 🗑
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| Soft Money | show 🗑
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| show | Voting for people in seperate political parties.
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| show | Votin for candidates of the same party for multiple positions.
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| show | Unofficial poll that is used either to predict the outcome of an official vote or to guage the relative strength of conditions for office in a futute election.
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| Super Tuesday | show 🗑
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| Valence Issue | show 🗑
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| show | A style of political campaigning where politicians make a series of appearances at a few small towns over a short period of time. Originally, these were conducted from and open platform of an observation or private railroad car.
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| Winner-Take-All Primaries | show 🗑
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