CHP 7 8 9 test

The _____ consists of the political party leaders who direct party business during the four years between the national party conventions.

Nat party commitee

The 501c's ability to hide its contributors created a new campaign-finance issue. Which of the following best describes the views of Republicans?

Republicans argued that donors needed the right to remain anonymous so that they would not have to fear retribution.

Identify a true statement about third parties in American politics.

They have brought many political issues to the public's attention.

12. Unlike super political action committees, 527 committees:

a. were prohibited from directly supporting or opposing a specific candidate.

Which of the following is true of primary elections?

b. Candidates who win general elections contest in primary elections.

18. Which of the following statements is true of a direct primary?

b. The elections that nominate candidates for Congress are almost always direct primaries.

24. The United States has a two-party system which means that:

b. the two major parties—the Democrats and the Republicans—dominate national politics.

are party conventions held at the local level that elect delegates to conventions at the county or congressional district level.

caucuses

7. Sampling error is the

d. difference between what the poll shows and what the results would have been if everyone in the relevant population had been interviewed.

In 2004, President George W. Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, pioneered a new campaign technique known as

microtargeting

Splinter parties that develop out of a split within a major party are also known as

personality

bull moose party is

personality party

By the mid-1850s, the Whig coalition had fallen apart, and most northern Whigs were absorbed into the new _____, which opposed the extension of slavery into new territories.

republican

25. Beginning with the presidential elections of 2000, the term red state has been used to describe a state in the United States whose citizens primarily vote for

republican party

Which of the following statements is true of the winner-take-all system?

In this system, the candidate who receives the largest popular vote in a state is credited with all that state's electoral votes.

32. Which of the following statements is true of a special election?

It is used to fill vacancies that occur by reason of death.

22. Identify a provision that resulted from the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.

It removed restrictions on the amount that could be spent on mass media advertising.

encourage the development of commerce and manufacturing.

The Federalists supported a strong central government that would

Which of the following statements is true of an indirect primary?

Voters choose delegates, who in turn choose candidates to represent their party.

State party organizations are built around a central committee and a chairperson.

Which of the following statements is true of state organizations?

elector is

citizen who votes

The Democratic Party balances the competing interests of its members by:

d. adopting a view broad enough to encompass the opinions of all the party members.

A person selected to represent the people of one geographic area at a party convention is known as a ____.

delegate

Which of the following is a result of The Great Depression?

e. The minority (opposition) party emerged as the majority party.

According to some lawyers, a 501(c)4 organization could make limited contributions directly to a candidate's campaign:

e. without revealing the identities of its donors.

In most states, the _____ provides the list of registered voters and makes certain that only qualified voters cast ballots. a. super political action committee

election board

populist also called

peoples party

good poll

1500-2000

To be elected as the president, a candidate needs a minimum of__________votes.

270

vp serves

4 years

Which of the following public positions is chosen by voters during a national general election?

The position of the president

To run a successful campaign, which of the following is a responsibility of the campaign staff?

To persuade the voters to go to the polls

In the context of the act of moving up the primaries of certain states, which of the following was a fear harbored by many Americans?

a. Long-shot candidates would no longer be able to propel themselves into serious contention by doing well in small early-voting states.

43. Jeffersonian Republicans believed that the nation's welfare would be best served if:

a. it was ruled by its wealthiest and best-educated citizens.

19. In a semiclosed primary, _____.

a. voters are allowed to register with a party on Election Day

When the Citizens United decision was handed down, a flood of corporate cash was expected to enter the political system. The ruling did result in more corporate and union spending, but far less than anticipated because__________.

a. many companies were reluctant to take stands that might alienate a large number of customers

Between elections, candidates depend on active party members to:

all

Party activists

are party members who help to organize and oversee party functions and planning during and between campaigns, and may even become candidates for office.

The__________is a secret ballot that is prepared, distributed, and counted by government officials at public expense

australia

For a given poll, a professional polling firm states that it has "95 percent confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is plus or minus four percentage points." What is the firm trying to say by claiming "95 percent confidence"?

b. There is a 5 percent chance that the poll is off by four points or more.

Which of the following statements is true of recent political fund-raising efforts?

c. One of the defining characteristics of Barack Obama's fund-raising campaign was its decentralization.

48. Which of the following statements is true of the history of American political parties?

c. Two major political factions were formed in America even before the Constitution was ratified.

Which of the following functions is performed at the national conventions?

c. Writing a party platform

In self-nomination, the most common way to become a candidate for a local government post, a candidate _____.

c. files a petition to be listed on the ballot

Which of the following statements is true of a house effect?

c. A firm with a house effect is not always wrong.

2. Which of the following statements best defines a straw poll?

c. A nonscientific poll in which there is no way to ensure that the opinions expressed are representative of the larger population

Beginning in 1800, the Federalists and Jefferson's Republicans held _____ to nominate candidates for president and vice president.

caucuses

In a blanket primary, voters _____.

could choose the candidates of more than one party

The _____ evaluates the claims of national party convention delegates to be the legitimate representatives of their states.

credentials

23. Which of the following statements is true of the procedure of voting for governors in the majority of U.S. states?

d. It takes place on a statewide, winner-take-all basis.

46. Which of the following statements is true of American politics?

d. Minor parties have found it extremely difficult to compete with the major parties for votes.

A single-member district:

d. is where voters elect one member from their district to the House of Representatives and to their state legislature.

31. One of the most important duties of the national party committee includes:

d. planning how to support the party's candidate in the next presidential election.

40. After the 2010 elections, many of the new Republican members of Congress were pledged to:

d. the Tea Party philosophy of no-compromise conservatism.

The first step to winning an election is:

d. the nomination process.

Which of the following is a limitation of the convention system that was used to nominate political party candidates?

e. Convention delegates were rarely chosen by a vote of the party's local members.

In the context of elections, which of the following is true of the ground game

e. It emphasizes the importance of making human contact with target voters.

What happens if no presidential candidate receives the required number of electoral votes required to become president?

e. The House of Representatives chooses among the top three candidates

Which of the following statements is true of a general election?

even number years

29. In the context of the structure of American political parties, both major American political parties:

fragmented decenteralized

All of the following affect the outcome of polls EXCEPT

house effects

Complications for telephone poll takers include:

increase cell phone

In the 1890s, the Populists—the People's Party—advocated _____ as a way of lessening the debts of farmers in the west and south

inflation

realignment

is a process in which the popular support for and relative strength of the political parties shift and the parties are reestablished with different coalitions of supporters

The Free Soil Party organized in 1848 to oppose the expansion of slavery into the western territories is an example of

issue-oriented

14. Each state in the United States has as many electoral votes as__________.

it has senators and representatives

By the end of George Washington's eight years in office, political divisions among the nation's leaders had solidified into political parties. One such political party was _____.

jeffs repubs

Which of the following are the only states to be exceptions to the winner-take-all system?

maine and nebraska

To be elected, a presidential candidate must receive

more than 1/2 of 538

A ____ candidate is one in which voters write the candidate's name on the ballot.

party nominated

In the context of politics,__________is a system of rewarding the party faithful and workers with government jobs or contracts.

patronage

_____ are representatives from each political party who are allowed to monitor voting places to make sure that the election is run fairly.

poll watchers

A sample in which each person within the entire population being polled has an equal chance of being chosen is a _____ sample.

random

Grand old party

republicans

1. In survey research, a group of people typical of the general population is called _____.

sample

A general election is a regularly scheduled election to choose__________.

senators

In the context of the second realignment in American history, the Democrats appealed to:

small farmers

The structure of each political party's national organization includes four major elements:

the national convention, the national committee, the national chairperson, and the congressional campaign committees.

45. _____ in his Farewell Address said that the "spirit of party . . . agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection."

washington

Polling firms respond to the difficulties of obtaining a body of respondents that truly reflects the population at large by:

weighting

The growing detachment of voters from both major political parties is known as _____.

Dealignment

Which of the following statements is true of the national party committee?

Each state elects a number of delegates to the national party committee.

Which of the following instances of the 1930s was referred to as the New Deal?

FDR Great depression programs

16. Which of the following statements is true of a semiopen primary?

Voters request the ballot for the party of their choice, either the Democratic ballot or the Republican ballot.

The true result of a poll is .

a range

Which of the following best describes soft money?

a. It refers to the campaign contributions that are not regulated by federal law.

27. In the context of American political parties, the party in government helps to organize the government's agenda by:

a. coaxing and convincing its own party members in office to vote for its policies.

In 1832, the National Republicans and the Democratic Party settled on a new method of choosing candidates for president and vice president called the

a. national nominating convention

5. Which of the following is true of contemporary polling techniques?

a. A satisfactory sample can be obtained by phone polling.

4. Electors are selected during each presidential election year by _____.

b. the states' political parties

28. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002:

banned soft money at the national level and regulated campaign ads paid for by interest groups.

10. In the 2012 election, many major polling firms

c. overestimated Republican turnout.

The election of 1932 brought Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency and the__________back to power at the national level.

democrats

Tipping can happen due to:

education and occupations

. The party in the electorate consists:

of all the people who describe themselves as Democrats or Republicans.