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| convention | Large meeting where a political party chooses its candidates. |
| candidate | A person who is chosen to run for a political office. |
| incumbent | The person who is in a political office already. |
| efficacy | A good feeling about something because it works for you. |
| political efficacy | A good feeling about voting because it works for you. |
| partisan | Feelings or beliefs that go with a certain political PARTY. |
| non-partisan | Not being connected with a particular political PARTY. |
| PAC | Political Action Committee that supports candidates that will help its members. |
| constituents | Another name for voters. |
| "Winner Takes All" | If a candidate wins, he gets all the elctoral votes of that state. |
| electoral college | Group of people from each state who cast their electoral votes. |
| political party | A group of people who try to get their candidate elected so they can run the country. |
| direct primary | An election to pick the candidates who will run for each party. |
| closed primary | A nominating election where you can only vote for your parties candidates. |
| open primary | A nominating election where you can vote for any parties candidates. |
| caucus | A meeting where a group of people picks a parties candidates. |
| split ticket voting | Dividing your votes up between the candidates from different parties. |
| straight ticket voting | Giving all your votes to only one party. |
| nominate | To pick someone to run for office. |
| Congress | The lawmaking branch of our national government. |
| 270 | The number of electoral votes needed to have a majority |
