Inhoud van mijn in 2008 verschenen boek De beste wint nooit. Het ABC van de Amerikaanse verkiezingen. Prompt won de beste, Barack Obama. Ik heb geen update gemaakt van de individuele items. Copyright Frans Verhagen.

Abortus

Absentee ballot

Accidental president

Administratie

Affirmative action

Appeasement

Appeasement

Armoede

Armoede

Authenticiteit

Authenticiteit

Balanced budget

Bandwagon

Big tent

Birther

Birther

Blogosphere

Bounce

Brokered convention

Bundler

Burnrate

Button

Buzzword

Buzzword

Camelot

Campagnefinanciering

Campagnes

Carpetbeggar

Caucus

Caucus

Cemetry vote

Christelijk rechts

Cliffhanger

Coattails

Comeback kid

Common core

Compassionate conservatism

Concessie/concession speech

Conservatief

Consultant

Contrast ads

Conventies

Corrupt bargain

Cross over vote

Culture wars

Dark horse

Debatten

Decent interval

Definiëren

Delegates

Democraat of Republikein?

Democratische Partij

Denktank

Derde weg

Dirty tricks

Divided government

Do nothing congress

Dog whistle messages

Draft candidate

Dynastieën

Electoral lock

Elfde gebod

Endorsement

Executive privilege

Exit polls

Expectations game

Family values

Federal Election Commission

Fire in the belly

Fireside chat

First mover advantage

Flip-flop

Flusher

Foot in mouth

Framing

Front porch-campagne

Front runner

Frontloading

Fundamentalisme

Fundamentalisme

Fysieke gesteldheid

Game changer

Geloof in de verkiezingen

GOP

Grass roots-politics

Guantanamo Bay

Hatchet man

Heartland

Hillary land

Homohuwelijk

Horse race

How does it play in Peoria?

Inauguratie

Incumbent

Infrastructuur

Inkomens ongelijkheid

Inkomensongelijkheid

Irak

Isolationisme

Israël

Kiescollege

Kiesmannen

Klimaat/milieu

Koch brothers

Landslide

Liberal

Libertarianism

Lobbying

Log Cabin

Log Cabin Republicans

Macht van de president

Mama Grisley

Mediamarkt

Medicaid en Medicare

Melt down

Message

Missouri bellweather

Mister president

Modder gooien

Mommy party/daddy party

Moralisten

Motor Voter Act

Negatieve campagne

Negatives

Neoconservatieven

Nominatie

Normalcy

NRA

Obama care

Obamacare

Off message

Oktober-verrassing

Onveilig

Opkomst

Opposition research (ook wel oppo research)

Over allochtonen en autochtonen

Pack journalism

Partijsymbolen

Peace and prosperity

Photo opportunity

Plank

Platform

Plutocratie

Politieke partijen

Popular vote

Populist

Pork Barrel

Primary (voorverkiezing)

Push poling

Putin

Ratings

Read my lips

Realignment

Republican Party

Retail-politiek

Robo calls

Rode en blauwe staten

Rode vs. Blauwe Staten: misleidend

Rolodex

Rookgevulde kamers

Rose Garden Strategy

Running mate

Schedulers

Scream of Dean

Signature issues

Sister Souljah Moment

Smell of magnolias

Soccer Mom

Social conservatives

Social issues

Social security

Soft money

Soundbite

Southern Strategy

Spin control

Spin doctor

Spreekvaardigheid

Stay on message

Straw poll

Stump speech

Super Tuesday

Surrogate

Surrogate

Swiftboating

Swing voters

Talkradio

Taxes/belastingen

Third party

Town hall meeting

Tracking polls

Triangulation

Verzorgingsstaat

Vetorecht

Vision Thing

Vuurwapens

Waffle

War Room

Wedge issue

Werkloosheid

Whistle Stop Tour

Willie Horton

Opiniepeilingen

You can fool all the people

Zeven dwergen

Zipper problem