Government Terms

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At Large
Baiting
Bandwagon Effect
Beauty Contest
Beltway
Bipartisanship
Blue Dog Democrat
Campaign Spending Limitations
Canvassing
Caucus
Closed Primary
Coattails
Congressional District
Constituency
Dark Horse
Delegate
Divided Government
Elector
Electoral College
Entitlement
Exit Poll
Fat Cat
Federal Election Campaign Act
Federal Election Commission
Franchise
Front-runner
Frontloading
Gender Gap
Gerrymander
GOP
Grassroots
Hard Money
Incumbent
Initiative
Lame Duck
Libertarian Party
Liberal
The Left
Matching Funds
Midterm Election
Motor-Voter law
Majority/Minority Party
National Party Convention
Negative Ads
Nonpartisan
Open Primary
Partisan
Platform
Plurality
Political Action Committee
Polls
Pork Barrel
Precinct
Proportional Representation
Protest Vote
Public Funding
Push Polling
Redistricting
Referendum
Recall
Right Wing
Soft Money
Sound bite
Spin
Straight Ticket
Split Ticket
Stump Speech
Superdelegate
Super Tuesday
Swing Voter
Term limits
Third Party
Threshold
Ticket
Voting Rights Act of 1965
War Chest
Wedge Issue
Whip
Winner-take-all