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