Chapter 14- Political Parties Quiz Review

Recruitment is best described as:

the process through which political parties identify potential candidates.

Which scenario is MOST likely to anger a supporter of the Tea Party movement?

A massive federal spending bill that also lowers taxes is passed

If fiscal conservatives, social liberals, or free traders clash with the Republican Party as a result of Trump's victory in 2016, which is MOST likely to occur in the near future?

A political realignment.

Because of intense political polarization in recent decades, which scenario was MOST likely, given the context of the 2016 general presidential election?

A voter casts his or her ballot against Trump rather than for Clinton.

Which of the following is MOST likely a Reagan Democrat in the 1980s?

A white factory worker a t the General Mills plant outside Chicago, Illinois

How were Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush similar as candidates for president?

Both courted religious voters.

Which of the following is NOT a phase of a political campaign?

Candidates are sworn into office.

In 2016, the Republicans took back the White House and Donald Trump was elected president. The House continued to be controlled by Republicans and Paul Ryan was speaker of the House. Vice President Mike Pence was not the president of the senate, officially, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell really had the power in that Republican-controlled body. You've been a loyal servant to the Republican Party and now want to be party chairperson. With whom do you cozy up the most?

Donald Trump.

Cory was a mainstream Democratic politician in 2016, one who knew the value of not disrupting the entrenched power of the Democratic Party. A senator from New Jersey, he was MOST likely to support which candidate in the 2016 election?

Hillary Clinton

Which scenario describes a challenge MOST likely to be encountered by a political party leader?

I got this one wrong.

In which voter is party identification strongest?

Juana, who voted for a Republican in nine of the last ten presidential elections

New York is a closed -primary state. All the following people are registered voters in New York: Pedro, a Democrat; Melissa, a Republican; Jada, a Libertarian; and Abdul, a Socialist. Who can vote in the New York Democratic primary?

Pedro only.

_____ set many of the rules governing the party nomination process.

State and federal laws

_____ differentiates an open primary from a closed primary.

The party affiliation of voters.

Which does NOT explain why the Democratic Party may be in trouble after 2016?

The party is divided over supporting Trump or not supporting him.

Which did Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders NOT share in common during the 2016 presidential election?

Their styles and messages.

According to political scientist V. O. Key Jr., which is NOT a role political parties play in a representative democracy?

They supply soldiers to the American armed services.

A critical election is:

a major national election that signals a change in the balance between two parties.

A party platform is best described as:

a set of positions and policy objectives that members of a political party agree to.

A political party unites people with shared goals of all the following types EXCEPT _____ goals.

financial

Parties help their candidates by doing all the following EXCEPT:

managing polling places.

A registered independent can vote in a(n) _________ primary.

open

MOST often, a political party is challenged by:

oppositional political parties.

Parties seek to build a(n)________________________ consisting of voters who will continue to support the party's policies and, more important, vote for the party's candidates.

party coalition

To win the party's nomination, especially for president, a candidate needs the support of _____ the MOST.

party delegates

Over a long period of time, depending on which party or parties control Congress and the presidency and how long they have done so, the United States can be described as being either in a(n) _____ or in a(n) _____.

party era, era of divided government.

Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992 by:

prodding his party toward the ideological center.

In the 1930s, African Americans abandoned the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, to vote in increasing numbers for the Democrats. This change BEST exemplified the concept of:

realignment.

Voting for candidates from different parties in the same election is known as __________________.

split-ticket voting.

In a given election area (a county, a congressional district, a state, etc.), a high amount of _____ directly correlates with high degrees of _____.

straight -ticket voting, party identification.

Donald Trump was the first U.S. president:

without prior military or political experience.