Monday 11/26/2012
1. Nominating procedure
1st self-announcement you say you’re running
a. Caucus like minded people choose a candidate
b. Convention party holds a meeting to choose a candidate
c. Direct primary
d. Petition mostly at the local level
2. Types of primaries
a. Direct
b. Closed
c. Open
Differences between open and closed
Closed prevents 1 party from raiding
Closed helps make candidates more responsive
Closed helps make voters more thoughtful
Open don’t have to make party preference known
Open doesn’t exclude independents
3. People’s arguments against primaries
a. Makes elections too long
b. Bed sheet ballots
c. Expensive
d. Divisive
e. Uninformed voters
4. Fighting Bob Lafollette called for ending the caucus and convention system direct
primary.
Students will get into groups and perform a skit that describes their assigned method of
the nomination method
Tuesday 11/29/2011
Suppose you and a group of your friends are trying to decide what to do on a Saturday
night. Some want to go to a party and other want to go to the movies. How do you
resolve the issue
1. Feds control national elections more now and time and dates
Tuesday after the first Monday
2. State control most election stuff
a. Absentee voting
3. Coattail effect
Strong candidate brings everyone on the ballot in his/her party along
4. Where do we vote
a. Precincts
b. Polling places
5. How do we cast the ballot
a. Australian
b. The office-group ballot
c. Party column ballot
d. Sample ballot
e. Bed sheet ballot
f. Voting machines
g. Vote by mail
h. Online voting
.
Wednesday 11/30
Suppose that you need a lot of money in a short amount of time. What would you be
willing to do in return for a large donation from a wealth person?
Where does the money for elections come from?
Sources of money
Personal
Private donations
Public donations
PACS
Subsidies
10 How do we regulate political spending and finance?
FECA
Watergate
Buckley v Valeo
Federal Election Commission
Disclosure requirements
Limits on contributions
Limits on PACs
Limits on expenditures
Public funding
Loopholes
Soft money
Independent campaign spending
Issue ads
Write an editorial either criticizing or supporting the role of money in the electoral
process. The editorial should include a discussion of FEC regulations. It should also
make
recommendations for additional government regulation or deregulation of campaign
finance
reform.
Thursday 12/1/2011
Does congress have the power to regulate spending in State elections?
Read page 203 and do decide for yourself.
1. Why is the Buckley cas struck down a law regulating federal compaign
contributions?
2. What were the conflicting interests in the Nixon case?
3. What interests in the Nixon case tends to be favored.
4. Write a brief expressing your opinion as to how the case should be decided.
Friday 12/2/2011
Do chapter review on page 204 Practicing the Vocab and reviewing Main Ideas