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chapter 9
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| NOMINATION: | Official selection of a candidate for office by a political party |
| GENERAL ELECTION: | Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even years |
| TYPES OF NOMINATION: | Primary and Caucus (opened and closed) |
| PRIMARY NOMINATION: | Elections in which a state’s voters go to the polls to express their preference for a party’s nominee for president. Most delegates to the national party conventions are chosen this way. |
| CAUCUS NOMINATION: | A system for selecting convention delegates used in about a dozen state in which voters must attend an open meeting to express their presidential preference. |
| IOWA CAUCUS: | February 4th, 2020 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE PRESIDENTAL PRIMARY: | February 11th, 2020 |
| FRONTLOADING: | The recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention. Iowa and New Hampshire |
| NATIONAL CONVENTION: | State delegates meet and vote on nominee nomination process more democratic than ever supreme authority of the party builds party support |
| WHY IS THE CONVENTION IMPORTANT: | Builds party support party support behind candidate you supported writes the party platform |
| PARTY PLATFORM: | Policy goals for the next 4 years |
| AT THE CONVENTION, WHAT DOES THE CANDIDATE NEED TO BE THE PARTY NOMINEE | The actual majority of the delegates 1991 is majority |
| SUPERDELEGATES: | National party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the Democratic Party’s national convention. |
| PROBLEMS WITH THE CAUCUS: | representation is low and unrepresentative money pays too big of a role too much power to the media difficult for politicians to take time from their duties to run all candidates don't have to campaign nationwide |
| PRESIDENT/VICE PRESIDENT ELECTION: | A compromise between the direct election and the election by congress |
| ELECTORS EQUATION: | Representatives (435) + Senators (100) + DC (3) +538 |
| WHAT DO WE VOTE FOR ON ELECTION DAY: | We vote for electors in November 48 states wining candidates gets all electors ME & NE have a district plan. All districts are equal |
| NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANURARY | November, we vote and predict the electors December electors get together and vote January, they open the electoral votes Majority vote of 270 |
| TOTAL ELECTORS: | 538 |
| HOW OFTEN CAN THE # PER STATE CHANGE: | Every 10 years |
| WHAT TYPES OF STATES LIKE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: | Smaller states, Republicans, Red states |
| WHAT TYPES OF STATES ARE MORE IMPORTANT IN THE ELECTION | Swing, purple, close states |
| WHEN DO WE KNOW THE WINNER: | January |
| 12 AMENDMENT | Changed election of the VP so it is no longer 2nd place. Must run for it. |
| TIE BREAK RULES (IF NO ONE GETS ENOUGH) | election goes to the house. The house election, every state gets one vote |
| 2000 BUSH V. GORE | Gore won popular vote by 500k votes but lost electoral vote by 5 votes. One electoral voter from D.C. didn't vote |
| 2016 TRUMP V. HILLARY | 2.9 M more p.v. but lost by over 50 electoral votes. Some electors did not vote |
| FAITHLESS ELECTORS: | Pledged to vote for someone but vote for someone else or not at all |
| ELECTORAL COLLEGE GOOD: | Prevents campaigning in only big states supports federal system by making states important historically, it has worked |
| ELECTORAL COLLEGE BAD: | "Faithless electors" Decrease voter turnout Most popular candidate can lose |
| WHAT UNFAIR RULE DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAVE? | gives states that weigh republican “bonus” delegates (gives more power) |
| 23RD AMENDMENT | gave DC 3 electoral votes |
| WINNER- TAKE- ALL | California has around 50 electoral votes for blue and Wyoming has 3 for red. If Wyoming is won, then the Republican delegate can get ALL those votes, which can be unfair |
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