Examples of candidate in the following topics:
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- Issue voting can also be problematic when candidates' stances differ drastically from those of voters.
- Candidates are most often evaluated on their party affiliation and stances on prominent issues.
- Many candidates utilize demographic factors to appeal to voters.
- Other candidates appeal to voters through shared religious affiliations.
- Describe how and why candidates' personal characteristics can be relevant to an election campaign
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- Candidates run for office by orchestrating expensive campaigns designed to increase their appeal to the electorate.
- Candidates running for election to public office need to appeal to the electorate in order to acquire votes.
- In many elections, candidates are primarily differentiated by being either liberal or conservative.
- Therefore, access to monetary resources is an important trait for candidates to possess.
- Identify the reasons the electorate might be drawn to a particular candidate
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- Election candidates have often been determined before conventions, but are still formally declared as their party's official candidates at the conventions.
- These nominees then proceed to the presidential nominating conventions where a candidate will officially be determined.
- The presidential candidates of the two major political parties in the United States are formally confirmed during the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention.
- However, the presidential nominating conventions still serve as the official method of selecting presidential candidates.
- Bush and Dick Cheney were declared the official presidential and vice presidential candidates at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
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- For example, in the United States, presidential candidates must win a majority of votes as allocated by the electoral college, which depends upon the candidate winning the popular vote in individual states rather than in the nation at large.
- By contrast, in France a candidate must win over 50% of the popular vote to be elected to office.
- Super PACs generally support a candidate by attaining large contributions for expensive television ads.
- Since they are not directly tied to candidates, super PACs often produce attack ads, or negative ads against opposing candidates, that the primary parties would not explicitly endorse.
- Assess the costs and benefits -- to candidates and the public -- of the two party system
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- Third-party candidates exert influence by focusing the election on particular issues and taking votes away from major candidates.
- Third parties usually organize and mobilize around a single issue or position, putting pressure on candidates from major political parties to address these issues.
- For example, segregationist American Independent Party candidate George Wallace gained 13.5% of the popular vote in the 1968 election.
- Although it is unlikely that a third party candidate will ever garner a plurality of the vote, they can influence the election by taking votes away from a major party candidate.
- Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate, is accused of "stealing" votes away from Al Gore, a Democrat, in the 2000 election.
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- Voters often vote based on candidates' images or likeability .
- Candidate images are not entirely malleable.
- Images are easiest to create early in a campaign when many people may not know much about a candidate.
- The media's depictions of presidential candidates Republican George W.
- When people decide to vote based on candidates rather than party identification or political ideology, candidate image can be very important.
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- Nomination is the process through which political candidates are chose to campaign for election to office.
- Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for election to office.
- To nominate candidates, political parties hold primary elections.
- Primary elections are used to narrow the field of candidates for the general election.
- Describe the steps by which a candidate appears on the ballot in a general election
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- Campaigns seek to actively engage with the media in order to present a particular image of the candidate.
- Although people often assume that candidates are elected because of their policy positions, many presidential elections are won and lost based on likability of the candidate.
- Americans only "get to know" a candidate through the representation of the candidate in the media.
- This was particularly clear by then-candidate Senator Barack Obama's use of social media in the 2008 election.
- This practice has now become standard; Republican candidate Governor Mitt Romney also released an app in 2012.
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- Such connections play a vital role in allowing presidential candidates to maintain a base of supporters they can depend upon during elections.
- Aside from the process of nominating a presidential candidate, the DNC and RNC's roles in selecting candidates to run on the Democratic and Republican Party ticket is minimal.
- Once a presidential candidate is chosen from each respective party, the Democratic and Republican National Committees provide crucial candidate support and party-building activities.
- Candidate support activities range from collecting polling data to running ad campaigns.
- The DNC and RNC collect polling data to produce maps showing where candidates have leads in certain areas.
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- Eligibility requirements must be fulfilled to qualify for a government funding, and candidates who accept this funding are usually subject to spending limits.
- Election campaigns run by candidates, candidate committees, interest groups or political parties
- Grassroots fundraising is a method of fundraising used by or for political candidates.
- This method has grown in popularity with the emergence of the Internet and its use by US presidential candidates like Howard Dean and Ron Paul .
- Grassroots fundraising is a way of financing campaigns for candidates who don't have significant media exposure or candidates who are in opposition to the powerful lobby groups.