Political Caucus

1. Politicians participate in negative campaigning in order to turn off voters against the competing politicians. Negative campaigning works by putting out negative advertisements that deals with a politician’s personality, opinion, or record. With this intention, politicians especially participate in negative campaigning because it is more impactful than positive campaigning; voters are more easily turned off by negative comments rather than a politician's views because of party loyalty and other factors. On the other hand, negative campaigning can backlash on the politician depending on the portrayal of the advertisement and lack of effort on the politician’s own campaign. Negative campaigning was birthed in the Election of 1800 when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams would accuse each other of malicious content. As a result, this form of campaigning has been effective for many years to come and is continued in today’s politician’s campaign.

The difference between a primary and a caucus is a caucus is a get-together of local voters who make an overall decision of which delegates to select for campaign conventions. Contrastingly, a primary consists of a cooperation of all the voters in a state to secretly vote for their supporting delegates. Furthermore, caucuses are arranged by either the state or a political party at a specific location and time; caucuses are often decided by hand-raising or division into groups. Uniquely, caucuses allow people to express their opinion openly and registered voters count as a larger population of a caucus. Notably, a primary resembles the primary election as it regards secret ballots; additionally, a primary can either be open or closed. A closed primary is forced to vote for their registered political party while an open primary is allowed to vote for a political regardless of their registered political party