| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Coattail effect | the effect of astrong candidate running for an office at the top of a ballot helping to attract voters to other candidates on the party's ticket |
| Electorate | all of the people entitled to vote in a given election |
| Gender gap | measurable differences between the partisan chocies of men and women today |
| gerrymanderig | the drawing of electoral district lines to the advantage party or group |
| Hard Money | Campaign money that is subject to regulating by the Federal Election Committee |
| Incumbent | The current office holder |
| Independents | people who do not have party affliations |
| Injunction | a court orders that force or limits the performance of some act by private individual or by a public official |
| Major Parties | in american politics the republican and democratic parties |
| Nonpartsian election | elections in which candidates are not identified by party labels |
| Off year election | Congressional election that occurs between presidential elcetion years |
| Partisanship | Goverment action based on firm allegiance to a political party |
| Party in Power | In american politics the party inpower is the party that controls the executive branch of government |
| Political action committee | politcal extension of special intrest groups that have a major stake in polictal policy |
| Political efficacy | One own influence on or effectivemess in politics |
| Political party | a group of persons who seek to control government through winning elections and holding public office |
| Political socialization | process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions |
| poll tax | a special tax demanded by the states as a condition of voting |
| preclearance | mandated by the voting rights act of 1965 the prior approval by the justice department of changes to or new election laws by certain staes |
| registration | procedure of voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting |
| Soft money | money given to state and local party organization for voting related activites |
| straight ticket voting | practice of voting for candidates of only one party in an election |
| subsidy | a grant of money usually from a government |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| ward | a unit into which cities are often divided for the election of city council members |
| convention | nominees are chosen from delegates selected by a series of conventions from local to national |
| precincts | a voting district supervised by an election board that makes certain only qualified voters cast ballots in the precinct |
| Nominate candidates | the major function of political parties is to select candidates and present them to the voters |
| split ticket voting | voting for candidates of different parties for different offices in the same election |
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