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nomination
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the choosing of candidates within each party
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self-nomination
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announcing one's desire to run for public office; the most common way of becoming a candidate in the early 1800s
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ballot
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the card or other object on which voters indicate their choices in the election
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petition
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a formal request to be listed on the ballot
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write-in candidate
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someone who will campaign without being listed on the ballot and who will ask voters to write his/her name on the ballot on election day
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caucuses
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conferences held by the two major parties in which the party leaders decided (secretly) who the candidates would be
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nominating convention
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an official meeting of a political party in which candidates and delegates are chosen
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Delegates
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persons sent to a higher-level convention to represent the people of a geographical area
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Direct Primary
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an election held within each party to pick candidates for the general election
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closed primary
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an election in which only party members vote to choose that party's candidates, and they vote only in the primary of their own party
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open primary
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a direct primary in which voters can vote for a party's candidates regardless of whether they belong to the party
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blanket primary
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a different version of the open primary; in which each voter receives a single large ballot listing each party's candidates for each nomination, and voters could choose candidates from different parties
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pluarlity
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more votes than any other candidate; this must be won to be declared the winner of an election
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nonpartisan elections
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elections in which candidates do not run under party labels
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campaign manager
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the person that coordinates and plans the campaign strategy
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political consultant
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the person that devises a campaign strategy, creates a campaign theme, and manages the image building of the candidate
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image building
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the use of public and private polls to mold the candidate's image to meet the particular needs of the campaign
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tracking polls
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polls taken almost every day to find out how well the candidates are competing for votes
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negative campaign advertising
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advertising attempts that try to discredit an opposing candidate in the eyes of the voters
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soft money
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a loophole; contributions made to political parties, instead of to that party's particular candidate
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loopholes
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legal ways of evading certain legal requirements
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general election
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a regularly scheduled election in which voters choose who will hold many public offices
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special election
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held when an issue must be deicided before the next general election
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Australian Ballot
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the method of voting introduced in 1888; it has four features: (1) ballot is printed by election officials at public expense (2) ballot listed the names of all the candidates in an election (3) ballot was distributed only at the polling places to qualified voters (4) the actual voting was done in secret
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Office-group ballot
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a form of the Australian Ballot in which all candidates for each office are listed together
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Party-column ballot
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a form of the Australian Ballot which lists candidates under party labels
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electoral college
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a group of persons, called electors, who officially elect the president and vice president
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electors
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those who serve on the electoral college
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popular vote
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the vote of the people (not the vote of the electoral college)
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