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| Political Parties | 1. An organization of citizens who wish to influence an control government by getting their members elected to office. |
| Recruiting and Nominating Candidates | 2. This function of political parties involves seek qualified people to run for political office. |
| Monitoring the Actions of Officeholders | 3. This function of political parties involves serving as “watchdogs” in government. A political party is always looking to gain an advantage over its opponents. |
| Helping Candidates Win Elections | 4. This function of political parties involves working together to get a person elected to office. This includes fund raising, advertising, creating campaign literature, and holding speaking tours. |
| Educating the Electorate | 5. This function of political parties includes communicating the parties’ position on issues. This can be done through speeches, pamphlets, the Internet, and press releases (television, radio, and news papers). |
| Party Platform | 6. Differences between political parties are found here. |
| Third Parties | 7.This organization often introduces new ideas and revolves around a political personality. |
| Politcal Center | 8.Political parties try to appeal here to win majority support. |
| Liberal and Conservative Views | 9.Political Parties these two types of views. |
| Fact and Opinion | 10. When evaluating campaign sources, educated voter separate these two things. |
| Mass Media | 11.The role of this group is to identify candidates, emphasize selected issues, write editorials, and broadcasted different points of view. |
| Fund Raisers | 12. In order to run for political office, many candidates are required to conduct this type of activities. |
| Wealthy | 13. These people have an advantage when running for political office. |
| Campaign Finance Reform | 14. The rising cost to run for political office has led to this type of change. |
| Register | 15. Citizens must do this 22 days before an election to vote in Virginia. |
| President and Vice President | 16. The Electoral College process is used to select these two people. |
| Popular Vote | 17. A slate of electors for each state is chosen by… |
| Winner Takes All | 18. Most states have this type of system to appoint electoral votes. |
| Congressional Representation | 19. The number of electors of each state is based on the size of the state’s… |
| Population | 20. Congressional Representation for each states is based on the state’ |
| Two Party | 21. The requirement for a majority vote to win the electoral College favors this type of system. |
