POS 100 test 2 set 3

According to a 2012 survey in your text, which of the following individuals is most likely to identify as a Republican?

Earning between $75,000 to $99,999, college degree, male, age between 42-53

The origins of today's Democratic Party is generally traced to the election of Andrew Jackson in

1828

. The best the Socialist Party has ever done in America was to capture 6 percent of the vote in the election of

1912

Nonparty groups that engaged in campaign advertising after 2007, but do not have to disclose their donors, are known as

501(c)4 social welfare organizations

In the 2008 presidential election

John McCain accepted public funds, but Barack Obama did not

One of the most convincing explanations for the two-party system in the United States lies in its use of

single winners chosen by a simple plurality of votes.

Studies of the 2010 midterm elections found that

tea party endorsements counted more in primary elections than in general elections

George Wallace's American Independence Party in 1968 could be considered an example of the formation of a

bolter party

Supers PACs have to

disclose there donors

During the 1970s, the Republican Party undertook

extensive organizational reforms to make it more effective in raising money and providing better support to its candidates.

The majoritarian model of democracy favors

voting as the primary means of participation

The current limit for individual contributions to a candidate in an election, as of 2011-2012, is

$2,500

The current limit for PAC contributions to candidates in an election is

$5,000

The South still casts many votes for Democrats because of the high proportion of

African Americans

Were not part of Roosevelt coalition

African Americans

Attitudes of most Americans towards political parties

Americans recognize the value of parties but distrust the existing ones

Beginning in 2010, corporations were free to fund ads directly advocating a candidate's election, due to the U.S. Supreme Court decision

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

consistent with the pluralist model of government?

Different parties control different branches of government

Historically, polls show public opinion in favor of keeping it

Is not a defense of the electoral college

The early Republicans (also known as the Democratic Republicans) were led by

Thomas Jefferson

Who said, "I am not a member of any organized political party —I am a Democrat"?

Will Rogers

Elections, as an institutional mechanism

bolster the power and authority of the state

A national survey in January 2012 found that people were most likely to say they "learned something" about the presidential campaign or candidates from

cable news.

From 1880 to 1920, no Republican presidential candidate

carried any state from the former Confederacy

Each state has one vote in the electoral college for

each of its representatives and senators

Third parties were the original policy advocates for

female suffrage, the graduated income tax, direct election of senators

Party machines—centralized party organizations at the local level that dominated politics by controlling local elections—declined because

government began to provide the social services that had been the basis of popular loyalty and support for the machines.

Surveys show today that approximately __________ of the American population today think that the United States needs a third party

over half

Early studies of Super PAC ads during the 2012 Republican nomination found that they

spent over 70 percent of their money on negative ads attacking other candidates

. The presidency supports the two-party system because

the presidency is a big enough political prize to induce parties to harbor uncomfortable coalitions of voters just to win the electoral vote and the presidential election.

The People's Party (or Populist Party) could at least brag that it was the first third party since 1860 to

win any electoral votes