Lecture 4 Partie 1

Question 1

How much does a presidential term long?

Answer 1

A term : 4 years

Question 2

How many times you can become president in the us?

Answer 2

A president can only serve 2 times

Question 3

What does it require to become president of the us?

Answer 3

The candidate must be a natural born citizen
He must be at least 35 years old
He must have been a resident in the us for at least 14 years

Question 4

What is a swing state?

Answer 4

A state in which the Democratic and Republicans candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election.

Question 5

What is the purpose of a primary?

Answer 5

The party members vote for the best candidate to represent them in the general election

Question 6

What is the purpose of a caucus?

Answer 6

Party members select the beat candidate through a series of discussions and votes

Question 7

What is the purpose of the caucusea and primaries? And when does it happen?

Answer 7

Primaries and caucuses are ment to chose a candidate from each party, it is organized from February to June (4 mouths)

Question 8

Before the party members chose a candidate, what is there?

Answer 8

The campaign : candidates from each political party campaign through the country to win the favor of their party members.

Question 9

What is are the national party conventions? And when do they happen?

Answer 9

From July to August there are gigantic m national meeting for both parties.
Each party have it’s own convention which last about 4 days.
The purpose is that the delegates confirm the results of the primaries, they select a nominee.

Question 10

What is announced exactly in the national party conventions?

Answer 10

The presidential candidates and it’s runnig mate

Question 11

What is a running mate and who chooses him?

Answer 11

The president chooses a running mate which means a vice-president

Question 12

How do we call the combination of the president and the vice president?

Answer 12

“The tickets”

Question 13

What is the other purpose of the national conventions?

Answer 13

It is to present the program also called “the plateform”

Question 14

How do people follow conventions?

Answer 14

They are broadcast on TV, media events, everything is followed on TV.

Question 15

What are the post election campaign and when do they happen?

Answer 15

From August to November the president travel across the country to present their ideas and convince voters they are also national debates with the other party.

Question 16

What’s the role of the media in the post convention campaign?

Answer 16

The media plays an important role : president pay adds that tend to be negative to the other party. That is extremely expansive.

Question 17

When does the election day (also called general election) happen?

Answer 17

The Tuesday following the first Monday of November in years divisible by 4.

Question 18

How do we also call the election day?

Answer 18

The general election or also “the popular vote”

Question 19

How do the votes work in the us ?

Answer 19

Regular people vote for the party list of electors (liste de grands electeurs) that said they will vote for a candidate.
Indirect elections.

Question 20

How are the votes counted in the general election?

Answer 20

They count how many voters (in the party list of electors) the popular vote is counted separately on each state.

Question 21

Does the populae vote determine who wins?

Answer 21

No, the final election is decided indirectly : it’s the electoral college who determine who wins.

Question 22

What is the electoral college and when does it takes place?

Answer 22

It takes place in December. Each elector has one vote following the general election and the candidate
Who wins more than half of the votes (270) is elected.

Question 23

How does the electoral college system works?

Answer 23

Each state gets a certain number of of elector based on it’s representation in the Congress.

Question 24

When are the president and vice president inaugurated?

Answer 24

In January

Question 25

How much are there electoral votes?

Answer 25

538

Question 26

What are the 3 branches of the US government ?

Answer 26

The Legislative branch - makes laws
The Executive branch - execute laws
The Judicial branch - interprets laws

Question 27

What provides the separation of power ?

Answer 27

The Constitution.

Question 28

What is there in the legislative branch?

Answer 28

CONGRESS
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Senate House of representatives

Question 29

What is there in the executive branch?

Answer 29

PRESIDENT
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Vice-president Cabinet

Question 30

What is there in the judicial branch?

Answer 30

The Supreme Court and the other federal courts

Question 31

What do we have to know about house of representatives’ elections?

Answer 31

• There are elections every 2 years
• One can be elected as long as he wants and can
• Elections take place in November
• They are chosen with primary elections
• One has to be at least 25 years old
• One must have been a citizen of the us for at least 7 years and still live in it

Question 32

What do we have to know about the senate’s elections?

Answer 32

• Senators are elected every 6 years (but 1/3 of Senate change every 2 years)
• The elections take place in November.
• They are chosen in primary elections
• One has to be at least 30 years
• US Citizenship for at least 9 years
• Live in the state they represent at the momwnt of the elections.

Question 33

What are the mid term elections?

Answer 33

They take place in the middle of the president term.

Question 34

How much are there senators?

Answer 34

100

Question 35

How much are there representatives?

Answer 35

435

Question 36

What is the mid-term election?

Answer 36

The mid-term election take place in the middle of the president’s term. All the 435 representatives change and 1/3 of the Senate too.

Question 37

What happened to Trump in the mid term elections?

Answer 37

Trump is a Republican, he uses to have a majority of Republican in the Congress but in 2018 in changed and it switched to a majority of Democrats.