govt test

Question 1

What are initiatives?

Answer 1

Allow citizens to propose legislation and submit it to popular vote.
most direct form of direct democracy

Question 2

what are referenda?

Answer 2

Allows the legislature to submit proposed legislation for popular approval.
run it by the people

Question 3

what are recall elections?

Answer 3

Allow citizens to remove someone from office.

Question 4

how many electoral votes are there?

Answer 4

538

Question 5

the least amount of electoral votes needed to win

Answer 5

270
this is the majority number that will win you the presidency

Question 6

most influential newspaper?

Answer 6

new york times

Question 7

what is important to consider when making reliable opinion polls

Answer 7

• proper question wording (as neutral as possible, avoid descriptive words)
• proper question sequencing
• get presidential approval of first question!!
• have an accurate sampling pool (make sure the pool isn’t unanimous on topics)
  -the way people are contacted
  -the margin of error is less than +/- 4%

Question 8

!!!continuous!!! surveys that enable a campaign to chart its daily rise and fall in popularity.

Answer 8

tracking polls

Question 9

what are exit polls

Answer 9

polls conducted at random voting places on election day

Question 10

600 people are given information on various topics in America and then given surveys/polls to answer

Answer 10

deliberative polls

Question 11

James Madison Fed 10 said what?

Answer 11

it mainly talked about factions overturning the government, saying that for this to not happen they needed a lot of different factions so they could fight with themselves instead

this can be transferred to the creation of interest groups so that no
one group could get hegemony over the other groups

Question 12

biggest interest group?

Answer 12

AARP

Question 13

open primaries

Answer 13

don’t declare yourself as any party
just show up and vote and do it all when you get there

Question 14

closed primaries

Answer 14

you can only vote in the party you declared yourself as before hand

Question 15

blanket primaries

Answer 15

you can jump around and pick different officials from each party

Question 16

Cajun / Jungle primaries

Answer 16

take everyone running into consideration and if someone receives majority votes then they win the office
if two people are tied then they do a run-off to see the winner

Question 17

run-off primaries

Answer 17

second time around but you can only vote if you voted in the primary for that party

Question 18

what is the Texas Two-Step and which party participated in it

Answer 18

The Democrats held a primary and caucus voting for the presidential nominee up until 2012

Question 19

In the U.S. House, reelection rates for incumbents are above what percent in most years?

Answer 19

90%

Question 20

Bush vs Gore Case

Answer 20

Bush won the machine count votes with 537 votes
When they did the hand count he won again but by a bigger margin difference
so the court demanded another hand recount - but because of time they just went with the machine count
they said this case was not be used as precedent for other cases

Question 21

2000 election results

Answer 21

Bush -271 electoral votes
- 30 states
Gore - 266 electoral votes
- 21 states
-won popular votes

barbara lett simmons - faithless elector

Question 22

what are the key states in the 2016 presidential election?

Answer 22

Hillary lost her blue wall states - Pennsylvania, California, Michigan
Faithless elector states - Hawaii, Texas, and Washington State

Question 23

what are the key states in the 2020 presidential election?

Answer 23

blue wall(wisconsin, pennsyvania, michigan), arizoina, and georgia

Question 24

Which president did reporters submit their questions to in writing recently

Answer 24

Herbert Hoover