Government Chap 10 Vocabulary

A great majority of votes for one side

• Landslide

• Winner take all system

• Elector

• Third party candidate

Compensation is something given or received as an equivalent for services.

• True

• False

The order in which officials fill the office of president in case of a vacancy.

• presidential occurrence

• presidential succession

• presidential tribunal

• presidential college

a member of a political party chosen in each state to formally elect the president and vice president.

• electoral college

• electoral university

• elector

• elector college

the institution that is composed of a set of electors who are chosen to elect a president and vice president into office every four years.

• compensation

• presidential succession

• electoral college

• caucus

the candidate who receives the most popular votes in a given state wins all the electoral votes for that state.

• cumulative balance

• addition and subtraction

• red tape

• winner take all system

a political action committee:

• the director of the National Security Council (NSC)

• someone who represents a political party that is neither Democratic or Republican

• organization formed to collect money and provide financial support for political candidates

• independent regulatory agency created by congress to enforce federal election laws

the federal election commission is an organization formed to collect money and provide financial support for political candidates.

• True

• False

an event held before an election where members of the party go to the polls and vote on which candidate they want to see earn their party's nomination

• primary

• secondary

• tertiary

• quarternary

an event held before an election where members of a political party delegates to send to the national party convention, where they will also vote to nominate a candidate

• primary

• caucus

• convention

• electoral college