ce5 vocab

a tilt to favor one side of an issue

• PAC

• platform

• bias

official statement of a political party's stand on issues

• platform

• bias

• PAC

organized effort by a candidate to win an election

• nomination

• campaign

• platform

to name a candidate to run for office

• campaign

• nominate

• candidate

organizations that raise money for a candidate

• PAC

• 2-party system

• moderates

democrat and republican

• PAC

• platforms

• two-party system

group that elects the president and the VP

• electoral university

• electoral college

• electricity

all forms of communication

• media

• PAC

• political spectrum

imaginary line of political views between democrats and republicans

• interest group

• political spectrum

• interest group

rarely win elections; focus on new issues

• democrat

• republican

• third party