unit 2

official endorsement of candidates for office by a political party

• national party convention

• campaign strategy

• nomination

• caucus

requires states to permit people to register to vote when they apply for a driver’s license

change in voting behavior

switching parties because of a presidential candidate or election

• realigning elections

• dealigning elections

voters abandon all political parties (resulting from a presidential candidate or election)

• realigning elections

• dealigning elections

looking at candidate’s work in former job to determine vote

• retrospective voting

• prospective voting

• party line voting

• policy voting

does not require voters to align with a certain political party in order to participate

• open primary

• closed primary

• party-line primary

• national convention

direct primary in which only persons meeting tests of party membership may vote

• closed primary

• open primary

• party-line primary

• midterm

imagining what a candidate would do in the future

• prospective voting

• retrospective voting

• party line voting

• policy voting

supreme power within parties

meets every 4 years to nominate a presidential and VP candidate

• campaign strategy

• superdelegates

• presidential primaries

• national party convention

campaign types: master game plan candidates lay out to guid electoral campaigns

• nomination campaign

• election campaign

• presidential campaign

• superelegation campaign