Transcript Vocabulary from Night - Laurens County School District

Vocabulary from SSCG8
bias
• A favoring of one point of view
caucus
• A meeting of party leaders to discuss issues or
to choose candidates.
nominate
• Name candidates to run for public office
registration
• Process of signing up to be a voter
media
• Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and
the internet.
Independent voters
• People who do not support a particular
political party.
Political party
• An organization of citizens who wish to
influence and control government by getting
their members elected to office.
platform
• Statement of political party’s official stand on
major public issues.
canvass
• Go door to door handing out information and
asking people which candidate they support
Direct primary
• An election in which members of a political
party choose candidates to run for office in
the name of the party.
Split ticket
• Practice of voting for candidates of more than
one party on the same ballot.
incumbent
• Someone who already holds the office for
which he or she is running.
campaign
• A collection of all the efforts a candidate
makes to win an election.
precincts
• Voting Districts
propaganda
• A message that is meant to influence people’s
ideas, opinions, or actions in a certain way.
Democrats and Republicans
• 2 major political parties in the United States.