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POLS 101 1st Edition Lecture 20Outline of Last Lecture I. Voter TurnoutII. CampaignsOutline of Current Lecture I. 3 phases of electionsCurrent LectureI. 3 phases of Elections- 1. Early or Nomination Phase- Parties choose the candidate running for their party for a particular position. May include primary election or caucus. Picking delegates who will go to the national nominating convention. Iowa is a caucus state, values meeting potential candidates, politics very important. Some individuals may participate in caucus and not primary or other way around, caucus allows for variety of people to involve themselves. Possibly moving towards allowing more independents to vote in primary elections. The potential nominees know they have to appeal to the particular electorate that comes out in the primaries, normally more extreme or conservative or more liberal, than the later stages of the election process. A. In this very early stage the candidates are going to hire political consultants and have expertise that candidates will need to win. They are independent contractors and do not work for the parties. Political consultants may specialize in advertising, polls, or “get out the vote drives”, or create websites, or focus on social media. In the early nomination phases, a political consultant may do a benchmark poll for the candidate, very big expensive poll. Consultants interview a large number of people,going in depth to know what people think through lengthy individual interviews.B. First thing done in campaign, trying to get the public to recognize candidate’s name and the correlational reaction to the candidate. In early phase, candidates with money will be running ads already. Will test Ads based on a focus group’s These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.response. Consultants typically focus on a specific area, and tend to work for a specific type of candidate, may only work for one party’s candidate.C. PHASE 2- Convention Phase- At the convention, is where the nominee for a particular party is nominated officially to run for office. Conventions tend to be 3 or 4 days, and it is quite an honor to be chosen as a delegate to attend convention for your party. Speakers want delegates to come away from the convention revved up about the candidate, convention is about healing wound of fight during primary elections, may draft platform and voted on to be used for electorate campaign. Conventions are funded by parties, and receive some federal money.D. PHASE 3- LATE GENERAL ELECTION- After convention, general election campaign begins, have two major nominees of the parties trying to get good press coverage. Candidates always have particular message to portray, trying to keep on script to avoid saying something stupid. Trying to deliver message that ispredetermined. Media covers the general election campaign and are sometimes accused of “Horse Race Coverage”- how is this candidate doing, are they being received well, who is going to win. The problem with media “Horse Race Coverage” is that the public may not be informed of candidates platform only opinions of what the public thinks of the nominee. The “White Papers” are public information of the Candidates platform, media may not cover due to being too tedious and boring. “Pack Journalism”- follow around candidate for months along tour on bus or airplane, must still report like other reporters, allconverging on what is important, main stream media will produce very similar stories of


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