Chapter 10

Question 1

Patronage

Answer 1

when individuals who supported a candidate for public office are rewarded with public jobs, appointments, and gov contracts

Question 2

political party

Answer 2

any group, however loosely organized, seeking to elect governmental office holders under a given label

Question 3

chronic minority

Answer 3

a group that rarely wins elections or achieves majority status and thus sees few reasons to become actively engaged in politics

Question 4

party organizations (temporary)

Answer 4

temporary-gathering of ordinary party members, such as primaries, caucuses, and conventions

Question 5

party organizations (permanent)

Answer 5

the party officials selected by the temporary organizations to conduct party business between primaries, caucuses, and conventions

Question 6

precint chairs

Answer 6

selected by party members in each voting precinct by majority vote

Question 7

county chairs

Answer 7

county-selected by countywide vote

Both manage local affairs of their party for the next two years

Question 8

party platform

Answer 8

document that spells out issue stances of party
written and approved at the party conventions
each individual issue is called a plank

Question 9

state executive committee

Answer 9

carries on the activities of the party between party conventions
consists of 62 members (1 male, 1 female from 31 senatorial districts)
selected at the state party convention

Question 10

republican dominance in today’s Texas

Answer 10

1961 -John Tower (U.S. Senate when LBJ became VP)
1978 - William Clements (governor)
Republican domination by 2000

Question 11

Texas one-party history

Answer 11

shifted from dem to repub in 40 years

Question 12

responsible party model

Answer 12

each has a firm and consistent set of specific policies with a coherent and distinct ideology, presents voters with clear choices

Question 13

electoral competition party model

Answer 13

parties move to the center of the political spectrum to attempt to win more votes

Question 14

P(olitically skill-less)appy o’daniel or Wilbert Lee O’Daniel

Answer 14

• born in ohio moved to TX in 1925
• won democratic election (golden rule and ten commandments) in 1938
• won w/no run-off and gen election by 97%
• won re-election even though he was hated

Question 15

runoff primary

Answer 15

primary that occurs if no nominee receives the required majority of the votes in the primary; the top two finishers face off in a second primary to determine the nominee for the general election

Question 16

conventions(caucuses)

Answer 16

meetings at which party members participate in a range of party business (such as elect delegates)

Question 17

delegates

Answer 17

elected to attend their party’s conventions that are held later at the county or Texas senatorial district level

Question 18

state party chair

Answer 18

individual selected at the state party convention to head the state executive committee (one must be male, other female)

Question 19

delegate allocation(1)

Answer 19

process by which party rules designate how many of the state’s delegates to the national party convention will be pledged to vote for a specific candidate or will attend as undecided

Question 20

delegate allocation (2)

Answer 20

126 votes (56%) are based off of the proportion of the votes they received in each of the 31 district primaries

Question 21

delegate allocation (3)

Answer 21

less than 15% gets no allocation

Question 22

delegate allocation (4)

Answer 22

67 (29%) delegate votes are allocated to how many of the party attended the precinct level convention and signed in for their candidate (Texas Two Step)

Question 23

delegate allocation (5)

Answer 23

35 votes are the super delegates (elected officials and party leaders who get invited to the national convention without going through the selection process required of ordinary democrats)