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Chapter 9 Nominations and Campaigns
Directions Read all of Chapter 9. Answer the following questions.
1.
Describe campaigns for the Presidency today.
The Nomination Game
2.
nomination –
3.
campaign strategy-
Deciding to Run
4.
How did Walter Mondale describe running for President?
5.
How long do campaigns last in most industrialized countries and how long in the
United States?
Competing for Delegates
6.
What is the goal of the nomination game?
7.
national party convention-
8.
How do parties choose their delegates to the national convention?
The Caucus Road
9.
caucus-
10.
Describe caucuses of the past.
11.
Describe caucuses today.
12.
Who holds the first caucus and why is the first caucus significant?
The Primary Road
13.
presidential primaries-
14.
Why were primaries introduced?
15.
When did primaries increase and why did they increase?
16.
Why did the McGovern commission form?
17.
McGovern-Fraser commission-
18.
What was the result of the McGovern Fraser Commission?

19.
superdelegates
20.
Why did Democrats institute superdelegates?
21.
Why is the New Hampshire primary important?
22.
frontloading –
23.
Democrats require all states to use what in delegate selection?
24.
Republicans have what requirements in delegate selection?
Evaluating the Primary and Caucus system
25.
Identify and describe five criticisms of the primary/cacus system.
The Convention Send Off
26.
national primary –
27. regional primary –
28. Describe the conventions.
29. party platform -
30. When is the vice presidential nominee selected?
The Campaign Game/Organizing the Campaign
31. Identify and describe three steps in organizing a campaign.
Money and Campaigning (pages 282-292)
32. What were two goals of the Federal Election Campaign Act-
33. Federal Election Campaign Act-
34. Outline major provisions of Federal Election Campaign Act:
1) Federal Election Commission (FEC)-
2) Presidential Election Campaign Fund-
3) Matching funds-
4) Soft money -
5)
“Hard money” contributions are limited to how much per person?

35.McCain Feingold Act–
36.
Identify three things that the McCain Feingold Act did -
37.
Buckley v. Valeo-
38.
Political Action Committee (PAC)
39.
How and why have PACs proliferated?
40.
PAC hard money contributions are limited to what?
41.
Most PAC contributions go to who?
42.
Critics of the PAC system worry that what? What is the evidence of this concern?
43.
What is the evidence that campaigns are too expensive?
44.
“Why it matters” How much money was “required” to be raised in 2004 to be competitive?