Chapter 9

Question 1

About how many elected officials are there?

Answer 1

Half a Million

Question 2

Which campaign is for the worlds most powerful office?

Answer 2

Presidency

Question 3

What is believed to be the cure for problems with democracy?

Answer 3

More democracy

Question 4

What is the mater plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign to achieve party’s nomination

Answer 4

Campaigning strategy

Question 5

What is a party’s official endorsement of a candidate for office

Answer 5

A nomination

Question 6

Success in the nomination game requires what?

Answer 6

Money, media attention, and momentum

Question 7

What are the supreme power within each of the parties?

Answer 7

National Party Convention

Question 8

How often do National Party Convention meet to nominate presidential and Vice presidential candidates and write the party’s platform?

Answer 8

Every 4 years

Question 9

What is the goal of the nomination game?

Answer 9

To win the support of the majority delegates at the national party convention.

Question 10

What was the commission formed at the 1968 Democratic Convention in response to demands for reform by minority’s groups who sought better representation?

Answer 10

McGovern-Fraser Commision

Question 11

What are national party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the National Party Convention

Answer 11

Superdelegates

Question 12

Mehta are elections in which state voters go to polls to express their preference and vote

Answer 12

Presidential Primaries

Question 13

What are states holding primaries early in the calendar to capitalize on media attention

Answer 13

Freeloading

Question 14

Does money play to big role in the caucuses and primaries

Answer 14

Yes

Question 15

Does our system give to much power to the media

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

What is the idea of holding primaries to select party nominees?

Answer 16

National Primaries

Question 17

Primaries would be held in seperate regions, groups of states would be a region, oppose form our one national primary

Answer 17

Regional primary

Question 18

In 1974 congress passed what act to tighten reporting requirements for contributions and to limit overall expenditures?

Answer 18

Federal Election Campaign Act

Question 19

This act also created what commission?

Answer 19

Federal Election Commission

Question 20

What is the six member bipartisan agency to administer and enforce campaign finance laws?

Answer 20

Federal Election Commission

Question 21

Can contribute up to 250$ per candidate

Answer 21

250$

Question 22

What are funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reform?

Answer 22

Political Action Committees

Question 23

Who banned soft money and increased individual contribution from $1000 to $2000

Answer 23

McCain- Feingold act of 2002

Question 24

Who demonstrated that incumbents do worse when they spend more money, unless they pace tough challengers

Answer 24

Gary Jacobson

Question 25

About how many people voted in the presidential election in 2008

Answer 25

125 million

Question 26

What are groups believing that ones political participation makes a difference?

Answer 26

Political Efficacy

Question 27

People with ________ than avergage education level have ________ voting rates

Answer 27

Higher,higher

Question 28

When voting racial minorities are usually?

Answer 28

Underrepresented

Question 29

Do women and male have higher voting rates

Answer 29

Women

Question 30

What is the idea that the winning candidates has a mandate from the people to carry out the policies he/she promised during the campaign?

Answer 30

Mandate theory of elections

Question 31

What vote ultimately determines the outcome of the presidential election?

Answer 31

Electoral College