12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

1. Analyze the origin, development, and role of political parties, noting those occasional periods in which there was only one major party or were more than two major parties.
2. Discuss the history of the nomination process for presidential candidates and the increasing importance of primaries in general elections.
3. Evaluate the roles of polls, campaign advertising, and the controversies over campaign funding.
4. Describe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process (e.g., voting, campaigning, lobbying, filing a legal challenge, demonstrating, petitioning, picketing, running for political office).
5. Discuss the features of direct democracy in numerous states (e.g., the process of referendums, recall elections).
6. Analyze trends in voter turnout; the causes and effects of reapportionment and redistricting, with special attention to spatial districting and the rights of minorities; and the function of the Electoral College.

DUE DATE: ON THE DAY OF THE TEST (AS ALWAYS)

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Section 1 The Nominating Process

Terms, People, and Events (8 of them, 1 point each)

Define each of these terms in your own words

• Nomination
• General Election
• Caucus
• Direct primary
• Closed primary
• Open primary
• Blanket primary
• Runoff primary

Section Summary (3 points per section)

List each heading or subheading on your paper and write at least two sentences summarizing each one of them.

• Importance of Nomination
• Self-Announcement
• Caucus
• Convention
• Direct Primary
• Nomination by Petition

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Section 2 Elections

Terms, People, and Events (3 of them, 1 point each)

Define each of these terms in your own words

• Coattail effect
• Precinct
• Polling place

Section Summary (3 points per section)

List each heading or subheading on your paper and write at least two sentences summarizing each one of them.

• Administration of Elections
• Extent of Federal control
• When Elections are held
• The Ballot
• Australian Ballot
• Office-Group Ballot
• Party-Column Ballot
• Voting Machines and Innovations

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Section 3: Money and the Election Process

Terms, People, and Events (1 of them, 1 point each)

Define each of these terms in your own words

• Political Action Committee

Section Summary (3 points per section)

List each heading or subheading on your paper and write at least two sentences summarizing each one of them.

• Campaign Spending Amounts
• Sources of Campaign Funding
• Why people give
• Regulating Campaign Finance
• Federal election commission
• Disclosure requirements
• The Limits
• Presidential Campaigns