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Leise Section 5 Test

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Closed Primary
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Front-Loaded Campaign
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Straight Ticket Voting
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Primary (especially New Hampshire)
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Split Ticket Voting
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Runoff Primary
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General Election
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Smith vs. Allwright (1944)
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Valence Issue
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Blanket Primary
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Soft Money
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Bush vs. Gore (2000)
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Buckley vs. Valeo
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Incumbent
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Caucus (especially Iowa)
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Federal Matching Funds
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Open Primary
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Campaign Spots
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Primary Election
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PAC/Political Action Committee
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A primary election in which voters may choose in which party to vote as they enter the polling place.
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Major Supreme Court case in which the 2000 presidential election was effectively resolved in favor of Bush.
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Voting for people in seperate political parties.
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An election held to choose which candidate will hold office in which all eligible voters vote at the same time.
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An issue about which the public is united and rival candidates or parties adopt similar positions in hopes that each will be thought to best represent those widely shared beliefs.
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An important Supreme Court decision with regard to voting rights and by eextension racial desegregation. It overturned the Democratic party's use of all-white primaries in Texas and other states.
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Votin for candidates of the same party for multiple positions.
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Commercials for campaigns and candidates.
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A group formed to raise and contribute money to the campaigns of candidates likely to advance the groups interests.
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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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A primary election in which voting is limited to already registered party members.
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Money supplied to campaign funds from public resources and administered by the Federal Election Committee.
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Those already holding public office. In Congressional elections, incumbents usually win due to advantages such as free mailings and travel at public expense.
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Funds obtained by political parties that are spent on party activities, such as get-out-the-vote drives but not on behalf of a specific candidate.
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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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A primary election in which each voter may vote for candidates from both parties.
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A second primary election held when no candidate wins a majority of the votes in the first primary.
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An election held to choose which candidates for office.
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In some states a type of primary election to select presidential candidates. Iowa holds the first caucus of the election season and dictates how well a candidate will do.
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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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Voting for a candidate because you favor his/her ideas for handling issues.
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Voting for a candidate because you like his/her past actions in office.
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The tendency for a popular political party leader to attract votes for other candidates of the same party in an election.
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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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Primary Elections in the southern states in which any non-white voter was prohibited from participating.
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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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Research done in order to discover damaging or detrimental information about somebody.
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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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During the presidential primary season there may be several groups of primaries in various regions falling on one or more Tuesdays. These groupingss are important because the weight of such a large, simultaneous vote tends to make or break nominees.
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An issue about which the public is divided and rival candidates or political parties adopt different policy positions.

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