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