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Question

Okay so i just almost finished my work but there are a few words I still can't find:

Campaign Spots, Prospective Voting, Retrospective Voting, "Front-Loading" Nomination Process, "Winner-Take-All" Primaries, Opposition Research

Any of these would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

US Campaigns/Elections (Vocabulary)

Spot advertisement - a fifteen-,thirty-, or sixty-second television campaign commercial that permits a candidate's message to be delivered to a target audience.

spots - short television ads, more information about candidate.

Prospective voting - voting based on the imagined future performance of a candidate.

Retrospective voting - voting based on the past performance of a candidate.  

frontloading - when candidates place an emphasis on winning the early primaries to gain momentum (especially in Iowa and New Hampshire).

front-end strategy - movement of primaries to the beginning of the primary schedule, makes states more important in choosing a candidate.

Winner-take-all system - a system in which all of a state's presidential nominating delegates are awarded to the candidate who wins the most votes, while runners-up receive no delegates.