Transcript Presidential Candidates

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Fabulous Friday
October 23
In your notebook, complete the following:
Write today’s date
Label this assignment: Opening Activity
Make a list of steps that shows how a
president gets elected from the primary
election to the votes being cast by the
electoral college. 263-265
Today’s Agenda
• Opening Activity
• Where’s Waldo quiz.
• Study.com video w/quick write
• Vocabulary to define and write 2 questions for each term – p. 185 TB
• Guided Notes
Winning Office
-Elections have 2 important
parts
1. Nomination Process•
Win the primaries
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Win the party’s nomination at a
political convention
2. Campaigning•
getting people to vote or be
interested in your candidate.
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Advertising yourself
Incumbent- running for the
position you currently hold…
Benefits?
Nominating Process
-Caucus
-a meeting of party leaders to decide who will
run. (name candidates)
-State Convention that provides a place for
party members (u and me) to hear speeches
and vote for people we think would be good
delegates to the National Convention
-Convention
meeting of party representatives (delegates)
to name candidates
A national nominating convention is
held by each political party, is usually
televised
--Primary Elections
-special election where party members/voters
to determine candidates
Primary Elections
-Open Primary
-primary where any
voter can help chose
candidates
-Closed Primary
-primary where only
party members are allowed
to vote
-Closed are most often
used to protect
the party’s nominees
Presidential Candidates
-selected by a combination of all
three nominating processes
1. -caucuses – usually held in secret
2. -primaries
3. -National convention
Endorsements
-using a famous person to support a
candidate
**Main type of propaganda**
Having the current president
support/recommend you
People are likely to listen if famous
singers or stars tell them to vote
a certain way.
Advertising
-using the media to campaign
-
primary method of campaigning
-negative advertising
(mudslinging/name calling)
-- Process of using
advertisements that focus
on the faults and
shortcomings of your
opponent rather than your
goals
Canvassing
-person to person campaigning
meet the candidates- door to door
-Going on the ”campaign trail” -when
a politician travels meeting people. 1
to 1.
Other Methods
-symbolism
-generalizations
-bandwagon
Public Funding
-Presidential Candidates get
government funding for their
campaigns
-equal funding-each candidate gets =
amount from govt
-Party can spend extra on behalf of
candidates…almost limitless
The FECA (Federal Election
Campaign Act) created the
Presidential Election Campaign
Fund. You can check a box on your
federal tax return and contribute
$3 of your taxes to the election
fund which the US Treasury
distributes to eligible candidates.
To be eligible, a presidential candidate trying to win a party’s
nomination for president must first raise at least $5000 private
contributions in each of 20 states.
The candidate then can receive up to a certain amount in
matching public funds.
To receive public funds, candidates must agree to limit their
spending in nomination campaigns.
After winning the nomination of their party, presidential
candidates who accept public financing cannot accept private
contributions. Their campaigns must be paid for only with the
public funds they receive.
Public Funding
-Presidential Candidates get
government funding for their
campaigns
-equal funding
-Party can spend extra on behalf of
candidates
Private Funding
-private funding is limited in most
cases
-candidate can spend any amount
of their own money
-me and you can donate $1,000 to
candidate
-PAC-- Groups that are formed in
order to raise money for
candidates running for office--they are limited to a $5,000
donation to an individual candidate
-campaign finance reformFederal Election Campaign Act to
limit political contributions, later
replaced with the Bipartisan
Campaign Reform Act, 2002
The BCRA requires every political candidate in
federal elections to report the name of each person
who contributes $200 or more in a year.
The law limits individual contributions to candidates
to $2100 for primary elections and another $2100
for general elections.
Individuals & groups can make unlimited
contributions for advertisements about issues that
are not part of a federal candidate’s campaign. These
contributions are called “soft money” contributions.