Media and Elections Terms

a group of citizens with similar ideas on how the country should be run
Example: Democrats and Republicans

• Political Party
• candidates
• Election Day
• ballot

a contest on Election Day in November in which candidates are elected to office

• General Election
• Election Day
• Constitution 
• candidate

a list of candidates and proposals that citizens use to cast a secret vote

• candidate
• General Election
• campaign
• ballot

a person who is running for an elected position or competing for a job

• candidate
• Election Day
• campaign
• democracy

What is a caucus?

• A caucus is when people from a district get together and discuss who they want to be their canidate. Then they vote - out loud - the winner in that vote gets that district.

• What ever political party does not have a sitting President (and they have not served two terms) decides who will be their choice to run for President.

• A caucus is just what it sounds like - the first (primary) election before the Presidential election.

• A caucus is like an election - people for their choice to be the candidate for President.

Has a President ever been elected who did not win the popular vote?

• No

• Yes

prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• Comparison

• Bias

• Favoritism

• Ethnocentrism

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content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page

• Ads

• Click Bait

• Popups

• Phishing Bait

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Echo chamber can best be described as a metaphor to describe...

• A place online where our ideas and beliefs get repeated to us based on our selection of content

• A place on social media where we only produce similar content

• The values and ideas we were brought up to have

• The idea that you should vote for the candidate your family votes for

Mark the benefits to social media FOR the public during elections.

• Allows voters to understand a candidate's stances (positions)

• Can take away attention from an issue

• Makes news

• Provides additional resources and information about an election and candidate