Political Party Vocab

A group of individuals with broad common interests who organize to nominate candidates for office, win elections, conduct government, and determine public policy

• Political Party
• presidential primary
• Political Action Committee (PAC)
• third party

A political party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years. The platform is drafted prior to the party convention by a committee whose members are chosen in rough proportion to each candidate's strength. It is the best formal statement of a party's beliefs.

• Party Platform
• electorate
• Suffrage
• disenfranchise

When the American people vote for the president of the United States. Elections are held the 1st Tuesday after the first Monday in November

• General Election
• lobby/lobbyist
• Political Party
• multi-party system

private organizations whose members share certain views and work to shape public policy

• Interest Group
• Bipartisan
• Suffrage
• third party

supported by two political parties

• Bipartisan
• disenfranchise
• Political Action Committee (PAC)
• Caucus

a term used to describe people who have no party affiliation

• Independents
• Suffrage
• Interest Group
• Caucus

A person who tries to persuade public officials to do those things that interest groups want them to do.

• lobby/lobbyist
• Independents
• General Election
• two-party system

A meeting of local party members before an election to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.

• Caucus
• multi-party system
• Bipartisan
• disenfranchise

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

• presidential primary
• electorate
• Independents
• multi-party system

a private group that raises and distributes funds for use in election campaigns

• Political Action Committee (PAC)
• Independents
• two-party system
• disenfranchise