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Chapter 9: Nominations and Campaigns

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	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. is the way in which candidates attempt to manipulate money, media attention, and momentum to achieve the nomination.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A political party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years is called the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Before primaries existed, all state parties selected their delegates to the national convention in a meeting of state party leaders called a .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Critics of the present primary/caucus system have suggested holding a series of in which states in one time zone would vote one week and other time zones in other weeks.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Money raised at the grass-roots level for voter registration drives and the distribution of campaign materials is called .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Most people pay relatively little attention to campaigns because of their remarkable capacity for .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The administers the campaign finance laws and enforces compliance with their requirements.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The fact that states that vote late in the primary and caucus process are often irrelevant has led to an increase in the process so that more delegates are selected early in the nomination game.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The inclusion of to the Democratic national convention was designed to restore an element of peer review to the process.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The technique of involves locating potential supporters by sending information and a request for money to huge lists of people who have supported candidates of similar views in the past.

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