Presidential Election Facts // History.com Flashcards
(22 cards)
When the founders drafted the constitution, they left out one very important detail: ____________?
How do we nominate the candidates for the presidency of the United States?
For ______ years, we’ve been winning it.
200
You might wonder why the ______ didn’t write into law the rules for how we might pick our _______.
(1) Founding fathers
(2) Party nominees
Why didn’t the founding fathers write into law the rules for how we might pick our party nominees?
The founding fathers had just broken away from the British political system which they saw as being corrupted by political parties.
The founding fathers wanted the very best men to be chosen based on their _________.
Qualifications.
Despite their best intentions, parties emerged in the first years of ___________. Those parties then began to shape who got ______ and who eventually became _______.
(1) American democracies
(2) Nominated
(3) President
Early on, only members of ______ and the _____ chose the nominees.
(1) Congress
(2) Senate
With the expansion of the right to ____ across America, it became necessary to enlist the support of _______ and _____ who would choose the _______ and ________.
(1) Vote
(2) Local party leaders
(3) Party bosses
(4) Party nominees
(5) Party conventions
At the convention, party bosses would meet in ______ filled rooms where they would decide who is going to be their ________.
(1) Smoke
(2) Parties nominee
There would be lots of ______ and quiet a bit or corruption.
Horse-trading
In the early _______ century, ___ and __ emerged.
(1) 20th
(2) Primaries
(3) Caucuses
The parties created _____ that allowed ordinary party members to be involved in the process of choosing their _________.
(1) Primaries
(2) Parties nominee
Today, to win the nomination of your party for the presidency, you have to win a series of ______ and ______.
(1) Primaries
(2) Caucuses
A ____ is an election that takes place in the individual ___ in which party members vote for their parties nominees.
(1) Primary
(2) States
Some states don’t have primaries, they have _____.
Caucuses
In a caucus, members of a particular party get together in a _____ or ______ and they talk about _________. Then they break off into individual groups and those groups get _____ and ____.
(1) Schoolhouse
(2) Individual’s home
(3) Support for a particular candidate
(4) Noted
(5) Counted
Candidates in a caucus or primary are awarded ______.
State party delegate
True or False: Just because the candidate wins the most votes in the primary and caucus process, does not mean he automatically becomes the parties candidate.
True
True or False: Delegates can switch their loyalty to another candidate.
True
In the _______, the ____ party decided they were going to __________ by having a group of delegates who were not ______ to their regular party memberships and these super delegates would come to the convention and if their was a chance of some sort of ______ and a _____, they would swing their support behind one candidate and it would allow a ______ to emerge for election day in ______.
(1) 1980’s
(2) Democratic
(3) Stabilize the System
(4) Beholden
(5) Chaos
(6) Split party
(7) Unified Party
(8) November
In the end, the nomination process may be chaotic but in other _______, the party leaders still choose their ____ for public office.
(1) Democracies
(2) Nominees
Only in ______ do the ordinary party members have a say in who their _______ is going to be.
(1) America
(2) Party nominee
