Elections Vocabulary List
Absentee Ballot

Activists

Apportionment

Ballot box stuffing

Ballot Proposition

Bandwagon

Bias

Bipartisan

Boondoggle

Budget

Cabinet

Campaign spending limits

Canvas

Coattails

Congressional District

Conservative

Constituent

Convention

Dark Horse

Debate

Declare

Delegate

Democratic Party

Direct Primary\

Electoral College

Electronic voting

Entitlement

Exit Poll

Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)

Federal Election Commission

Front-runner

Gerrymander

GOP

Grass Roots

Green Party

Hard money

Incumbent

Independent

Lame Duck

Landslide

Left

Left wing

Liberal

Libertarian Party

Lobbyist
Machine

Majority party

Matching funds

Midterm election

Motor-Voter law

Mudslinging

Negative Ads

Nominee

Nonpartisan

Open Primary

Partisan

Platform

Plurality

Political Action committee (PAC)

�Politics make strange bedfellows�

Poll

Porkbarrell

Precinct

Progressive

Propaganda

Quorum

Reagan Democrat

Recount

Redistricting

Referendum

Reform Party

Registration

Republican Party

Right wing

Runoff election

Soft money

Sound bite

Special interests

Spin

Spit ticket

Straight ticket

Strategy

Straw vote

Straw poll

Stump speech

Suffrage

Super delegate 

Swing voter

Tally

Term
Term limits

Territory

Third party

�Throw your hat in the ring�

Ticket

Uncommitted delegate

�Vote with your feet�  voter turnout

Voting rights act of 1065

Wedge issue 

Whistle stop
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