Politics Exam 2 TEST
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- unlike some other countries, congress persons in the US are selected in districts that are defined
- geographically
- in the 1996 election, clinton recieved 3,250,000 votes and dole recieved 2,220,000 votes; this gave clinton
- all of the 33 electoral votes
- what is the typical interaction between lobbyists and policymakers
- presentation of info
- A closed primary is restriced to
- Party Identifiers
- The government body that normally has the duty of redistricti the legislature
- state legislature
- a primary election in which voters must declare their party affiliation before they see the primary ballot
- closed primary
- an organization that sponsers candidates for public office
- political party
- the american party system has featured
- competition of 2 dominant parties
- statements that the police are required to make to a person before that person is subject to custody questioning are known as
- miranda warnings
- lobbyists involve themselves in the congressional lawmaking process NOT in this way
- introducing the bill in the house and senate
- the first objective of campaign advertising is
- to ensure that a candidate has a high level of name recognition among voters
- the long-term prospects of the reform party are weak becuase
- the two party system is deeply ingrained
- the last major expansion of suffrage in the US involved the criterion of
- age
- political parties are distinguished from interest groups in US politics because
- interest group dont sponser candidates for office under their name
- most americans get their news from
- tv
- the decline in voter participation since 1950 can be attributed in large part to
- the belief that voting does little good
- the constitutional bases of the civil rights act of 1964 was
- the commerce clause, full faith and credit
- if no presidential candidate recieves a majority of the electoral college votes, the election is decided by
- the house of representatives
- at the presidential level, the electoral college system awards all of the states electoral votes to the candidate who
- wins a plurality of popular votes in the state
- if the us system of single-member districts with plurality voting were replaced with a system of proportional representation, one possible concequnce would be
- a movement towards a multi-party system
- it is rare to find an individual in the US who
- joins a political party and regularly pays dues
- presidential candidates are oficially nominated by
- delegates of the parties national convention
- in modern election campaigns, the largest amount of spending goes to
- tv and radio
- in order to win a plurality system, a candidate must have
- more votes than anyone else
- allows voters to select candidates for both parties simultaneously
- blanket primary
- james madison argues that liberty would be better protected in a larger republic because
- the diversity of interests in a larger republic would provide a protection of liberty
- the number of seats granted to each state in the house of representatives is
- reappointed every 10 years after the census
- since the present two part system was established, how many minor party candidates have been elected to the party
- none
- in the presidential election in the year 2004, who would become president if dan quayle got 22 million popular votes and 262 electoal votes and al gore got 20 million popular votes and 276 electoral votes
- gore
- why might the political party prefer a closed primary election to other types of primaries
- it helps ensure that candidates are chosen by people who share the goals and values of the party
- voters of one party choosing a weak opposition party candidate
- raiding
- if california has 49 members in the House of Representatives, how many electoral college members does california have
- 51
- the redrawing of district lines for partisan advantage
- gerrmandering
- the most important qualification for being a lobbyist is
- experience with washington and government operations
- the us constitution was specifically provided for
- no political parties
- typically, the political party organization in the US is
- dominated by a small inner circle composed of few loyal partisans
- the secret ballot was first used in
- Austrailia
- there is no presidential race
- an off year election
- new civil rights declare what the government
- must do for citizens or provide to them
- citizens tend to hold the strongest opintions about political issues that involve
- personal self interest
- in federalist #10 james madison advocated
- a system that inherently would control the effects of factions by allowing them to multiply
- a meeting of the party's supporters to choose delegates to attend subsequent meeting at which the party decisions are made
- caucus
- candidates for the presidency commonly concentrate their compaign
- in the most populated states
- political parties are least important in which branch of the government
- judicial
- presidential elections in missouri
- are pledged to the candidate who recieved the most votes in their state, but they may change their vote
- civil liberties declare what the government
- cannot do to citizens
- amicus briefs offer a fairly inexpensive way for interest groups to influence decision making in this branch
- judicial branch
- characteristics frequently associated with nonvoters are
- low education, low income, and being relatively young
- the people dont elect the president, they elect electors who vote on their behalf
- electoral college
- the effects of the twenty-sixth ammendment which enfranchised eighteen to twenty year olds, was to
- reduce the overall national voter turnout state
- This is NOT a way that nominations are decided
- general elections
- the style and tactics of contemporary presidential campaigns are controlled primarily by
- a candidate's personal campaign and organizations
- ask electorate to nominate, not public elections, party elections in which organization asks loyal followers who they want to vote in this private election
- direct primary
- the number of electoral votes to win the presidency
- 270
- the institution that has suffered the greatest loss of influence over the electoral process in the last forty years
- political party
- rights such as privacy, free press, and freedom of speech
- substantive rights
- a child born of an american living abroad
- has the right to american citizenship abroad
- which of the following would probably never attempt to achieve goals of a political nature- religious, labor related, environmentalists, consumer port.
- are all liable to lobby
- among democratic nations the US ranks where in the percentage of eligible population voting
- bottom
- examples of procedural rights include
- arrest for probable cause, protection from unreasonable search and seizure , right to a fair hearing