| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Political Party | A group of people who share the same political thoughts who want to influence government in a certain way |
| Decentralized | How federalism influences the nature of political party structure (one word) |
| Win Elections | The basic goal of any political party is to: (two words) |
| National chairperson, national committee, national convention, congressional campaign committee | The four elements to the major parties at the NATIONAL level (4 items separated by commas) |
| Decentralized, fragmented, and disjointed | A phrase that describes the condition of our two strongest national political parties in terms of their organizational structure (three words w/commas, "and") |
| Party organization, party electorate, party in government | Three roles political party members may use (three items separated by commas) |
| Informer function | A party's job to educate loyal party supporters on the issues and the party's position on these issues |
| Government function | A party's job to take control of government to make policy decisions that favor their party's views |
| Bonding agent function | A party's job to keep a connection between voters and have qualified candidates who do what the people want (AKA unifying agent function) |
| Watchdog function | A party's job to keep an eye on the other party to report and publicize any mistakes (AKA loyal opposition function) |
| Caucus | A method in which people meet at local places to select delegates to vote at the state level. These delegates in turn select delegates to vote in the national convention |
| Direct primary | An intra-party election to pick candidates for the general election |
| Closed primary | In this method, a voter must be a registered party member who may only vote for candidates from their party |
| Open primary | In this method, any qualified voter may choose any party's ballot, regardless of which party they belong to. They may only vote in that one ballot. |
| Blanket primary | In this method, a voter receives a ballot with all nominees from all parties. The voter may vote for different parties for different positions on the ballot |
| Cross-voting | The process of voting for different parties for different positions on the ballot |
| Party raiding | When non-party members vote for a party's candidates (two words) |
| Proportional representation | Whatever proportion of votes a candidate receives in the primary election popular vote is the proportion of delegates the candidate receives at the national convention. |
| Plurality | A system in which the candidate that receives the most popular votes from the primary election receives ALL of that state's delegates at the national convention. (AKA winner-take-all) |
| Michael Steele | The Republican National Committee chairman. Also a fool. He's in da house though. |
| Tim Kaine | The Democratic National Committee chairman; misnamed Krause by Mr. Donovan |
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