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Presidential Elections (General Elections (The Electorial College (There…

- - - - Pros and Cons of a Caucus
        
        Pros:
        It is more democratic and allows people to share their opinions with others.
        It also alows people to get more involved in government.
        
        Cons:
        It is a long proses that can take hours to finish, this can cause many people to not go. People might not feel comfortable sharing what candidate they support in public in front of their neighbor , family, and friends; this can also cause people to not want to go.
  - - - Pro:
        It is a small state
        It allows not as well know candidates gain momentum with their campagnes
        Advertising and office spaces aren’t as expensive compared to bigger states like California
      - Con:
        It isn’t a fair representation of our contry.
        The population is mostly white older people it is also a fairly religious state.
        It is a small state
  - - - Pros:
        It allows the party to have a say in the election and stay true to its fundamental values.
      - Cons:
        It is undemocratic to allow a group of people to decide who will get to be the next presidential candidate.
        It gives super delegates more power than the average citizen, violating the 1 person= 1 vote rule.
        It also breaks the idea of separated power.
- - - - It was right after the Watergate scandal
      - Congress had passed a law, the Federal Action Campagne Act to prevent another Watergate
        
        They set limits on how much money a person could give to a campaign. It also set limits on how much money the candidates themselfs could spend on their campaigns. It requried to report all contributions. This created the Federal Eletion Commission (FEC) to police this.
      - After the law was passed someone sued saying it was unconstitutional to limit money spent and contributed. They said that it was against the first amenment and that money is a form of speech.
        
        Decision: They said limits on contributions were good and that they helped protect against corruption. They said that limits on money spent by the cadidates campaign is not agaisht the first amendment. They said that outside groups could contribute however much money they wanted to spend. They said that when the outside groups (PACs) spent the money that they could only advertise the issues not the candidate. The court made a whole list of words that could not be included on their ads.
        
        The list of words that could not be included or "the magic words" were: vote for, support, elect, cast ballot for, Name for congress, vote against, defeat.
    - - This compleatly changed everything from the Buckley vs. Valeo.This case allowed outside groups including unions and corperations (Super PACs) to donate unlimited amounts of money to a campaign.
        
        A Super PAC is a political community whose primary purpose is to influence elections with outside federal contribution limits. This is from ritch people, unions, and corporations. The PACs are still not allowed to "coordinate" with the candidate.
        
        Thats how #McConneling became a thing.
- - - - The number 538 comes from Senators+Representatives
    - - Maine and Nebraska base their electorial votes on their congressional districts.
        Ex. Nebraska gets 5 electoral votes and 3 districts. The person who wins the majority gets one vote and then two bonus ones.
  - - - According to the twelth Amendment.
- - - - This is in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution
  - - - What should the timing be?
        If you are relatively unknown then you have to put everything into the early primaries.