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AP Gov. Ch.9 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Presidential Election Campaign | Money from the $3 federal income tax check-off goes into this fund, which is then distributed to qualified candidates to subsidize their presidential campaigns. |
| Matching Funds | Contributions up to $250 and are matched from the P.E.C. fund to candidates for the presidential nomination who qualify and agree to meet various conditions, such as limit overall spending. |
| 501 groups | An American tax-exempt nonprofit organization; section 501 (c) of The U.S. internal revenue code provides that 28 types of nonprofit organizations are exempt from some federal income taxes. |
| 527 groups | A type of American tax-exempt organization named after a section of the United States code; created primarily to influence the selection, nomination, election appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state, or local public office. |
| Selective Perception | Paying most attention to things they already agree with and interpreting events according to their own predisposition. |
| Caucuses | A meeting of state party leaders. |
| Superdelegates | A portion of delegate slots for party leaders and elected officials. |
| Frontloading | Refers to the recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize a media on attention. |
| Regional Primaries | basically states that in the Eastern time zone people vote 1 week, then the next the next week, etc. |
| Direct mail | a technique involving locating potential supporters by sending information and a request for money to huge lists of people who have supported candidates of similar views in the past. |
| Campaign Strategy | be able to manipulate money, media attention, and momentum. |
| National Party Convention | in the summer preceding a presidential election, each major party officially introduces it's P and VP candidate w/ its platform. |
| Nomination | a party's official endorsement of a candidate for office. |
| Federal Election Campaign ACT | a United States federal law which increased disclosure of contributions for federal campaigns. |
| General Election | a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in which voters elect officeholders. |
| Campaigning | a series of operations energetically pursued to accomplish a purpose; a campaign is a race between candidates for elective office. |
| Party Platform | a list of actions which a political party or candidate supports to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said peoples' candidates voted into political office. |
| National Primary | a proposed system for conducting the United States presidential primaries and caucuses, in which all of the primaries and caucuses would occur on the same day. |
| Presidential Primaries | a direct primary for the selection of state delegates to a national party convention and the expression of preference for a U.S. presidential nominee. |
| Federal Election Commission (FEC) | created to administer campaign finance laws and enforce compliance with their requirements. |
| Soft Money | makes it easier for political parties to raise money for voter registration drives & the distribution of campaign material at the grass root level or for generic party advertising. |
| Political Action Committee (PAC) | formed when a business, or some other interest group, decides to contribute to candidates whom it believes will be favored towards its goals. |
| McGovern-Fraser Commission | established open procedures and quota requirements for delegate selection. |
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