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What is a General Election
A national or state election is called this
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What are Opposing views?
the Practice of "conversion" involves a campaign attempting to win voters who have these kinds of opinions
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What is an Open Primary
aAprimary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party)
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What is campaign strategy?
The master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign
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What is a Closed primary
Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
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What is a PAC?
A funding organization used by corporations, unions, interest groups and powerful politicians to give money to many different campaigns.
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What is a Blanket Primary
Registered voters may vote for candidates from either party on the same primary ballot
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What is Activation?
One of the three goals of campaigns, this means to turn on the fence "just voters" into participating members of the campaign
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What is a Runoff primary
A second primary election held when no candidate wins a majority of the votes in the first primary
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What is selective perception?
The phenomenon that people often pay the most attention to things they already agree with and interpret them according to their own predispositions
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