The Electoral College. (Part of Final)

Question 1

How many representatives are there in the house?

Answer 1

435

Question 2

How many senators are there?

Answer 2

100

Question 3

True or false, representative and senators are electors?

Answer 3

False

Question 4

How many electoral votes does DC get?

Answer 4

3

Question 5

How many electoral votes are there?

Answer 5

538

Question 6

How many electoral votes does the President need to win?

Answer 6

270/538

Question 7

What is the winner takes all method?

Answer 7

The winner from the state (in votes), takes all of the electoral votes

Question 8

Which two states use the district by district system?

Answer 8

Maine and Nebraska

Question 9

What happens if there’s a tie or no clear majority?

Answer 9

The vote goes to the house

Question 10

What happens if a vote goes to the house?

Answer 10

Each state gets one vote, and the representatives have to agree on that vote between the top three candidates

Question 11

Does DC get a vote in the house?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

What happens if there’s a tie in the house?

Answer 12

It goes to the senate

Question 13

What is a delegate?

Answer 13

Someone who is picked to represent one way

Question 14

What is a trustee?

Answer 14

Someone who chooses when the state doesn’t know

Question 15

What is a partisan?

Answer 15

Someone who votes with their party

Question 16

What happened in the election of 1800?

Answer 16

Jefferson and Burr tied, and Adams was in third place.

• The house picked Jefferson
• Led to the 12th amendment

Question 17

What happened in the election of 1824?

Answer 17

Jackson won the popular vote and the electoral college vote, but not the majority

• House gave the presidency to John Quincy Adams
• The speaker of the house helped to sway the vote, and got appointed secretary of state once Adams was in office

Question 18

What happened in the election of 1876?

Answer 18

Tilden won the popular vote and the majority of the electoral college

• Republicans appointed a committee to look into fraud
• This reversed the decision in fraud states, so Hayes won the electoral college
• Hayes took office and ended reconstruction, which benefited Tilden’s party

Question 19

What happened in the election of 1884?

Answer 19

Cleveland won the popular vote and the electoral college

Question 20

What happened in the election of 1888?

Answer 20

Cleveland won the popular vote but not the electoral college

Question 21

Why didn’t Cleveland win the electoral college vote of 1888?

Answer 21

• A Republican member of Congress decided they would work directly against the President
• He pretended to be an ex - British subject and wrote a letter to Britain’s ambassador
• Ambassador wrote back to say that Britain supported Cleveland
• The letter (“Murchison Letter”) was printed in New York were there were large populations of Irish
• The New York electoral college vote would have made the difference

Question 22

What happened in the election of 1893?

Answer 22

Cleveland won the popular vote and the electoral college vote

Question 23

What happened in the election of 2000?

Answer 23

Bush vs. Gore

• All comes down to Florida
• The butterfly ballot
• Nater and the spoiler effect
  
  • – Nater takes away votes from someone on the left side of the spectrum
• Couldn’t recognize voter intent
  
  • – Double votes
  • – Hanging chads
    
    • Democrats challenged some counties for a recount
    • • The Supreme Court said that the recount violated the equal protection clause

Question 24

Who was the only president to win 100% of the electoral college votes?

Answer 24

George Washington

Question 25

What percentage of the electoral college votes did Monroe get?

Answer 25

99.5%

Question 26

What percentage of the votes did FDR have?

Answer 26

57.4% (1936)

Question 27

What percentage of the votes did Nixon have?

Answer 27

66.5%

Question 28

Which elections came down to one vote?

Answer 28

2000 and 2004