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308 Chapter 9 | Elections If no candidate receives a majority of the electoral college votes, the members of the House of Repres ...

Electoral campaigns 309 Electoral campaigns This section explores the campaign process and what candidates do to convince people ...

310 WHAT DO THE FACTS S AY? 65% 60 55 50 45 40 –2 0 Change in Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) before an Election 1980 (Carter) ...

Electoral campaigns 311 to scandal. But Lamb, who took moderate positions on issues such as gun control, was widely regarded as ...

312 Chapter 9 | Elections Before the Campaign While in Office Most sitting House members, senators, and presidents work througho ...

Electoral campaigns 313 a strong opponent, he or she will have enough money to run an aggressive campaign. Second, successful fu ...

314 Chapter 9 | Elections or to amnesty for undocumented immigrants might be a winning electoral strategy— just as support for t ...

Electoral campaigns 315 A candidate’s issue positions as described in his or her platform help mobilize supporters and attract v ...

316 Chapter 9 | Elections and taking positions, and always raising campaign funds—which is part of the reason they are so likely ...

Electoral campaigns 317 they have an absentee ballot) is a relatively efficient use of candidates’ resources. Given that most pe ...

318 Chapter 9 | Elections run a story about the candidate and the race. Of course, attack ads often fail because they are too ou ...

319 Much like the “Daisy” ad, modern campaign ads are short, with arresting images that often use photomontages and bold text to ...

320 Chapter 9 | Elections Do Campaign Ads Work? One critical question about campaign advertising is whether the ads work—whether ...

Individual Candidates National Party Committees State, District, and Local Parties PACs Limit on Total Contributions Individuals ...

322 Chapter 9 | Elections A second distinction in campaign finance laws is between hard money, meaning contributions to a candid ...

Electoral campaigns 323 TA B L E 4 Candidate, P a r t y, a n d Interest-Group Election Fund-Raising, 2016–2018 Candidates and ...

324 Chapter 9 | Elections When you look at campaign finance data, the first thing you will see is that it is easy to find which ...

Take a Stand 325 Is There Too Much Money in Politics? Campaign finance regulations place restrictions on what Americans can do t ...