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Cause Lobbyist -:- A person who works for an organization that tracks and promotes an issue Closed Primary -:- A nominating election in which only voters belonging to that party may participate Contract Lobbyists -:- Lobbyists who work for different causes for different clients Crossover...

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POLS 207 TAMU Questions and Answers
| Latest Update
Cause Lobbyist

✓ -:- A person who works for an organization that tracks and promotes an issue




Closed Primary

✓ -:- A nominating election in which only voters belonging to that party may

participate




Contract Lobbyists

✓ -:- Lobbyists who work for different causes for different clients




Crossover voting

✓ -:- Voting by a member of one party in another party's primary, process is not

allowed in all states




Factional splits or Factions

✓ -:- Groups that struggle to control the message within a party; for example, a

party may be split into competing regional factions.




General Elections

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✓ -:- decisive elections in which all registered voters cast ballots for their preferred

candidates for a political office




Nonpartisan Ballots

✓ -:- ballots that do not list candidates by political party; still often used in local

elections




Open Primary

✓ -:- A nominating election that is open to all registered voters regardless of their

party affiliations




Party Conventions

✓ -:- meetings of party delegates called to nominate candidates for office and

establish party agendas




Political or Party Machine

✓ -:- Political organizations controlled by small numbers of people and run for

partisan ends. In the 19th and 20th centuries, these organizations controlled party

nominations for public office and rewarded supporters with government jobs and

contracts.




Runoff Primary


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✓ -:- an election held if no one wins a majority in the main primary




Super PACs

✓ -:- political action committees established to make independent expenditures




Apportionment

✓ -:- The allotting of districts according to population shifts. The number of

congressional districts that a state has may be reapportioned every 10 years,

following the national census.




Caucus

✓ -:- all the members of a party within a legislative chamber




Coalition Building

✓ -:- the alliance of special interest groups with the purpose of achieving the same

goal using both direct lobbying and grassroots lobbying




Committee

✓ -:- A group of legislators who have the formal task of considering and writing

bills in a particular issue area.




Constituent Service

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