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-Higher with those interested in politics.
- wealthy are more likely to vote; they believe the system works.
-young voters increasing, but still relatively low.
-whites vote more regularly that blacks.
-blacks vote more than hispanics. |
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-too busy
-difficulty in registering
-difficulty of absentee voting
-number of elections
-local, state and national level and use of primary elections for selection of candidates
-18 year olds are lesast likely to be registered to vote |
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| A voter's evaluation of the performance of the part in power |
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| A primary election in which only a party's registered voters are eligable to vote |
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| a primary in which party members, independents and sometimes members of the other party area allowed to vote |
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| An election that allows citizens to propose legislation and submit it to the state electorate for popular vote |
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| States are more likely to use primaries than caucuses |
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-more democratic
-more reporesentative
-rigorous test for the candidate |
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| -cacus participants more informed;more intereactive and informative |
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| -The head of a political campaign |
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| The communications director is responsible for a candidate's overall media strategy |
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| Representatives of Each state who cast the final ballot |
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| Total Number of Electors per State |
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| Equal to the number of Senators and representatives that states has in the US congress |
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| Electoral College history |
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| The result of a compromise between Congress vs direct polular election |
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435+100=535+3=358
270 electoral votes needed to win |
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tendency for voters to punish the president's party more severely in the 6th year of an 8 year presidency
-also occurs in midterm congressional elections, when president's party usually loses seats in midterms |
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| Advertising that attempts to counteract an anticipated attack from the opposition before the attack is lauched |
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| Rapid Response Techniques |
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| The formation of prompt and informed responses to changing events on the campaign battlefield |
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| citizens can log onto a candidate's website and engage in a nearly contemporaneous exchange of ideas with other supporters and with the candidate's internet team |
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Concluded that the government's interest in preventing political-party corruption overrides the free speech rights to which the parties would otherwise be entitled
-In other words the Supreme Court very narrowly upheld the BCRA measures restricting speech both in the form of political contributions (the soft-money ban) and in political advertising |
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| Bipartizan Campaign Reform Act 2002 |
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| Legislation that prohibits soft-money contributions to political parties and limits amounts individuals can give |
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| The virtually unregulated money funneled by individuals and political committees through state and local parties |
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