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What are Entry Polls?
A poll you take before entering the voting stand.
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What is Watchdog?
A group that watches the government's moves and makes sure they convey the public interests.
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What is Soft Money?
A contribution that is not contributed to a certain candidate, therefore, avoids legal limitations.
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What is the First Amendment?
The amendment that allows you to have freedom of press and speech, etc.
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What is the Length of the Constitution?
This document has 7 articles
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What are Exit Polls?
A poll you take after exiting the voting stand.
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What is Horse Race Coverage?
They focus on the actual poll and the public perspective.
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What is PACS?
A political committee that raises money to defeat or promote a candidate. They have a limit on how much they can raise.
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What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote
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What is the Function of the Constitution?
Describes how the government operates and how it is structured.
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What is Popular Vote?
A vote is when the citizens of the US vote for a candidate.
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What is Agenda Setting and Cutting?
The media decides whether they want to talk about certain events or avoid certain events.
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What are Special Interest Groups?
A political group that focuses on a problem/concern in our world and promotes it to get attention.
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What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
The amendment outlaws rejecting people to vote based on race.
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What are the First Three Articles?
These articles outline our government branches.
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What is Electoral College?
A group of 538 people cast their votes for President. First to 270 wins
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What are Sound Bites?
30-second clip used online to convey a message of a speech.
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What is Super PACS?
A political committee that is not connected to one committee and raises money from businesses. They can raise an unlimited amount of money.
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What is the Fourth Amendment?
The amendment outlaws people going through your house for no reason.
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What is the Fourth Article
The state relations are described and outlined in this article.
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What is Primaries?
Where a voter states his preference for the candidate's party or candidate in general
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What is Media Bias?
When media platforms side more with one side than the other and it shows in their writing.
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What is FEC?
Sets and watches the laws applied to Presidental Elections. They oversee the financial side of the Presidental Elections.
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What is the Tenth Amendment?
The amendment reserves some powers to states.
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What is the Seventh Article?
The article has the main topic of Ratification.
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