| A | B |
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| campaign | The organized effort to get a candidate elected. |
| political party | A group of people who share many of the same ideas about how the government should work. |
| platform | The principles and ideas that a candidate and his or her party feels are most important. |
| exit poll | A survey taken of voters as they leave the polls on Election Day to give early information about how they voted. |
| poll | The place where people go to vote in an election; the collecting and counting of votes in an election. |
| electoral college | The group of people chosen by the voters, called electors, who directly vote for the president of the United States. |
| mudslinging | Using abusive tactics (accusations and insults), especially in a political election. |
| popular vote | choice of the people in an election (ordinary voters). |
| 15 | New Jersey's # of electoral votes |
| 270 | the number of electoral votes a candidate needs to win |
| "winner take all" | a system where the candidate who wins the popular vote in a state wins all of that state's electoral votes. |
