practice quiz 3 Flashcards
Today, in national elections, most campaign tasks are handled by
paid professionals.
A meeting of party members designed to select candidates and propose policies is called
a caucus.
Primary elections were first mandated
in 1903 in Wisconsin.
Superdelegates are
party leaders or elected officials who are given the right to vote at the party’s national convention.
The number of eligible voters who cast ballots on Election Day is referred to as the
voter turnout.
Every two years ________ House seats are up for election, and ________ in the Senate.
435/a third.
As detailed in the Constitution, the formal requirements for the office of senator include that he or she must be
a resident of the state from which elected.
A secret ballot prepared, distributed, and tabulated by government officials at public expense is known as the
Australian ballot.
State and national candidates are typically nominated through a
primary election.
Reforms to the Federal Election Campaign Act in 1974 did NOT
provide public funding for congressional elections.
One criticism of media coverage of campaigns is that too much attention is focused on:
The horse race.
A major development in the run-up to the 2010 elections was the growth of the ______ movement.
Tea Party
Soft money refers to
campaign contributions to political parties that escaped limits of federal or state election law.
The number of members each state will have in the Electoral College
equals that state’s number of senators plus its number of representatives.
The process in which more and more states move their primaries into the first months of the year is known as
front-loading.
Redistricting is often a highly partisan and contentious activity because it can change the number of House seats each party wins in a state. The party in control of the state legislature can design districts so as to protect its incumbents and increase its House seats. The party in power can obtain more seats by having small but usually safe majorities in several districts and cramming large numbers of the other party’s voters into just a few districts. This is achieved through a process known as:
Gerrymandering
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 banned
soft money contributions to national parties.
The number of political action committees (PACs)
grew significantly after 1976 but has leveled off since the 1990s.
When a district’s boundaries are redrawn to maximize the political advantage of a party or racial group, this is called
gerrymandering.
A committee set up by and representing a corporation, labor union, or special interest group to raise campaign donations is a
political action committee.
Soft money refers to (2)
campaign contributions to political parties
One of the reasons that campaigns no longer depend on political parties is
that fewer people identify with them.
The ______ limited the amount that candidates could spend on their own campaigns, a limit later ruled unconstitutional.
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971
The job of a political consultant may include all of the following EXCEPT
nominating a candidate for office.
State and national candidates are typically nominated through a (2)
primary elections and caucus
When the top two candidates in a primary compete in another primary for a majority of votes, it is called
a run-off primary.
In Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court
ruled that it was unconstitutional to restrict in any way the amount congressional candidates could spend on their own behalf.
The series of acts passed by Congress in an attempt to limit and regulate the size and sources of contributions and expenditures in political campaigns are known as the
corrupt practices acts.
Advertising paid for by interest groups that support or oppose a candidate (or a candidate’s position on an issue) without mentioning voting or elections is called
issue advocacy advertising.
This attack ad was designed for the 1964 election campaign of Democratic president Lyndon Johnson. It exploited the fear that Johnson’s Republican opponent, Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona, was willing to use nuclear weapons.
The Daisy ad.
Presidential nominees are selected by both major parties through:
Caucuses and primaries.
The minimum number of electoral votes a presidential candidate needs to be elected:
270
Independent expenditures by special interests are
unregulated political expenditures by PACs, organizations, and individuals that are not coordinated with candidate campaigns or political parties.
State and national candidates are typically nominated through a
primary elections and caucus
Reapportionment is
the allocation of seats in the House to each state after each census.
The selection of electors is governed by
state laws.
Money given to the political parties for get-out-the-vote drives, party-building activities, and issue advertising that is not subject to contribution limits.
Soft money
Candidates who accept federal financing for presidential general elections
Under the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC,
The organizations that came to be known as “527s”
