US Elections

 

Categorization Activity

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US Elections Terminology: Categorization Activity

 

 

Instructions:

Cut out the strips below and photocopy or draw on the board the three categories.  Divide participants into groups and ask them to place the terms into the correct category (note: some of the terms might fit into more than one category; as long as the students can justify the category they chose, this is fine). 

 

 

Voters and Demographics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candidates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Campaign Trail (election process)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yellow Dog Democrat

 

 

Spin (Doctor)

 

Soccer Mom

 

 

Beauty Contest

 

 

 

Rolls Royce Republican

 

 

Push polling

 

 

 

Barnstorm or Whistlestop

 

 

NASCAR Dad

 

 

 

Coattail Effect

 

 

Boll weevil

 

 

 

Dark Horse

 

 

Swing voter

 

 

 

Gender Gap

 

 

Baby Kisser

 

 

 

‘Baiting’ an opponent

 

 

Bandwagon Effect

 

 

 

Pork Barrel

 

 

Sound Bite

 

 

 

Fat Cat

 

 

 

Backlash

 

 

 

Reagan Democrat

 

 

Ticket splitters

 

 

 

Blue Dog Democrat

 

 

Front Runner

 

 

 

Click here for possible answers.

 

 

 

 

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