Ch.11 Caiou Dowds

Question 1

Barack Obama

Answer 1

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to be elected to the presidency and previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois

Question 2

critical elections

Answer 2

a term from political science and political history describing a dramatic change in the political system. Scholars frequently apply the term to American elections and occasionally to other countries.

Question 3

delegate

Answer 3

a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.

Question 4

Donald J. Trump

Answer 4

Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens

Question 5

Hilary R. Clinton

Answer 5

American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and as the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

Question 6

national convention

Answer 6

The National Convention was the first government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly. Created after the great insurrection of 10 August 1792, it was the first French government organized as a republic, abandoning the monarchy altogether.

Question 7

National Party Platform

Answer 7

A political party platform or program is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public’s support and votes about complicated topics or issues.

Question 8

Party identification

Answer 8

Party identification refers to the political party with which an individual identifies. Party identification is affiliation with a political party. Party identification is typically determined by the political party that an individual most commonly supports (by voting or other means).

Question 9

partisan polarization

Answer 9

Political polarization refers to the cases in which an individual’s stance on a given issue, policy, or person is more likely to be strictly defined by their identification with a particular political party (e.g., Democrat or Republican) or ideology (e.g., liberal or conservative).

Question 10

Party realignment

Answer 10

United States is when the balance of power between a country’s political parties changes greatly. Their electoral coalitions (the groups of people who vote for them) change dramatically. Sometimes, this happens when political parties die out or are created.

Question 11

political machine

Answer 11

a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.

Question 12

Political party

Answer 12

a group of voters organized to support certain public policies. The aim of a political party is to elect officials who will try to carry out the party’s policies. A political party offers candidates for public office.

Question 13

proportional representation

Answer 13

an electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them.

Question 14

secular realignment

Answer 14

An election that signals a party realignment through voter polarization around new issues. Term. Secular Realignment. Definition. the gradual rearrangement of party coalitions, based more on demographic shifts than on shocks to the political system.

Question 15

Superdelegate

Answer 15

(in the Democratic Party) an unelected delegate who is free to support any candidate for the presidential nomination at the party’s national convention.

Question 16

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 16

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had been elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams from 1797 to 1801

Question 17

Winner-take-all system

Answer 17

The District of Columbia and 48 states have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state’s Electoral votes.

Question 18

candidate centered election

Answer 18

Voting became candidate centered, and so parties as mechanisms for understanding candidates, campaigns, and election became less relevant. A series of technological, institutional, legal, and cultural shifts diminished their once central function as the organizers and inclusive mobiliz- ers of American elections.