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Vocabulary - Campaign Finance

Name ______________________________
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a _____ is a meeting to determine which candidate delegates from a state party will support.
_____ Funds provides money to qualifying presidential candidates from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, the amount of which is determined by the amount of contributions raised by the candidate.
_______ occurs when states decide to move their presidential primaries and caucuses to earlier in the nomination season in order to capitalize on media attention.
The Presidential Campaign Fund asks citizens to donate $3 from their ________ (three words) check to this fund which is then distributed to qualified candidates to subsidize their presidential campaigns.
The Federal Election _____ is a bipartisan body charged with administering campaign finance laws.
Selective ______ is the act of paying the most attention to things that one already agrees with or has a predisposition towards.
The Party ______ is the party’s statement of its goals and policies for the next four years.
A _____ is a party’s official endorsement of a candidate for office.
Presidential ______ are state-level elections to determine which candidate the state’s delegates will support.
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______ are delegates to the Democratic Party’s national convention who obtain their seats on the basis of their positions within the party structure.
_____ (two words) is the use of targeted mailings to prospective supporters, usually compiled from lists of those who have contributed to candidates and parties in the past.
The National Party ______ is a meeting of the delegates from each state to determine the party’s nominee for president and party platform.
______-Fraser Commission was a committee in the Democratic Party formed after the 1968 Democratic National Convention charged with recommending changes in party rules to promote more representation of women and minorities in the delegate selection process.
527 groups are ______ groups that seek to influence the political process but are not subject to contribution restrictions because they do not directly advocate the election of a particular candidate.
Campaign ___ is the way candidates use scarce resources to achieve the nomination or win office.
A ______ primary is a proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries systems who would replace these electoral methods with a nationwide primary held early in the election year.
A Political Action Committee (PAC) is a legal entity formed expressly for the purpose of contributing money to _____ and influencing electoral outcomes.
The Federal Election ______ (two words) was 1974 legislation designed to regulate campaign contributions and campaign expenditures.
_______ primaries have been proposed by critics of the caucuses and current presidential primaries to replace these electoral methods with a series of primaries held in each geographic region.
_____ (two words) is money raised by political parties for voter registration drives and the distribution of campaign material at the grass roots level, now banned at the national level.