Exam 3 - Pretest 8 Flashcards
When or how is the choice of a running mate usually made?
To balance the ticket geographically or ideologically
The two social characteristics with the strongest relation to voting are __________ and _________.
age; education
Which of the following can be said about the Electoral College?
It includes 538 electors.
A president must meet all EXCEPT which of the following requirements?
Be a resident of the District of Columbia
Which constitutional amendment made it unconstitutional to prevent a person from voting based on race?
Fifteenth
The voting age was reduced from twenty-one to eighteen by the __________.
Twenty-sixth Amendment
The pool of money collected from a $3 check-off on the federal income tax form for presidential campaign funding is called the __________.
Presidential Election Campaign Fund
The mainspring issue driving most electoral decisions seems to be _________ issues.
economic
__________ was the first state or territory to grant women the right to vote.
Wyoming
Experts who are hired by political candidates to give advice on the use of mass media are called media __________.
consultants
__________ unprecedented four elections to the presidency prompted the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Franklin Roosevelt’s
Jim Crow laws were created to do which of the following?
Limit African American voting
Which amendment provided women the right to vote?
Nineteenth Amendment
Candidates for president try to get as much _____ as possible during the campaign.
free television time
The __________ must decide the winner of a presidential election if no candidate wins a majority of the electoral votes.
House of Representatives
