200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt Primaries Other Methods of Nomination Campaigns & Elections The Electoral College Campaign Finance

This is a preliminary election used by parties to choose candidates to compete in a general election. 100 points

What is a primary? 100 points

This is a type of primary or election in which candidates do not identify with a party. 200 points

What is a nonpartisan primary/election? 200 points

This is a type of primary where any registered voter can cast a ballot, but they must pick one party’s primary to vote in. 300 points

What is an open primary? 300 points

This is a type of primary where voters are allowed to split their ticket. 400 points

What is a blanket primary? 400 points

This refers to the tendency of states to push their presidential primaries further and further up the calendar in an attempt to have greater influence on the nomination. 500 points

What is frontloading? 500 points

This is the oldest and most basic method of nomination. 100 points

What is self- announcement? 100 points

This method of nomination is often used at the local level. 200 points

What is a petition? 200 points

This is a meeting of like-minded people who choose candidates to run in a general election. 300 points

What is a caucus? 300 points

This takes place after the nomination process and involves candidates of different parties running against each other to find out who wins an office. 400 points

What is the general election? 400 points

This method of nomination consists of voters electing delegates to represent them at a large gathering where a nominee is chosen. 500 points

What is a convention? 500 points

This type of campaign ad features the use of statistics to contrast between candidates. 100 points

What is card stacking? 100 points

This is when voters cast a ballot before Election Day. 200 points

What is absentee voting? 200 points

This is the standardized ballot form used in nearly all US elections since 1900? 300 points

What is the Australian ballot? 300 points

VIDEO CLUE The following campaign ad falls into this type. watch?v=tB3BNgdfEkI 400 points

What is glittering generalities? 400 points

As of now, voting machines have transitioned from using punch-card ballots to using these. 500 points

What are touch screens? 500 points

If a candidate wins the popular vote in a state, he or she wins all of these from that state. 100 points

What are electoral votes? 100 points

200 points The framers created the Electoral College for these three main reasons.

What are representation, fear, and knowledge? 200 points

A candidate must win this many electoral votes to win the presidency. 300 points

What is 270? 300 points

This state is worth the most electoral votes. 400 points

What is California? 400 points

These states are the only ones NOT to award all their electoral votes to the statewide winner. 500 points

What are Maine and Nebraska? 500 points

These are outside groups that raise and spend money on behalf of candidates. 100 points

What are political action committees (PACs) ? 100 points

This is the regulatory agency that makes sure campaign finance rules are being followed. 200 points

What is the Federal Election Commission (FEC)? 200 points

This was used as a loophole around campaign finance laws until the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 banned it. 300 points

What is soft money? 300 points

This is a term for a grant of money. 400 points

What is a subsidy? 400 points

This was the first major piece of legislation to deal with campaign finance. 500 points

What is the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)? 500 points