Interest Groups
Though not the wealthiest, this interest group is one of the most powerful.
What is the NRA?
Voters from these two states are the first to vote for their party's Presidential candidate.
What are Iowa and New Hampshire?
This President said, "Fellas. I need 11,000 votes. Gimme a break."
Who is President Trump?
There are six Amendments about voting. The first addressed this concern. (topic, not #)
What is racism, or denying vote based on race?
One of the specific ways states in the South prevented Black people from voting during the Jim Crow era.
What are literacy tests or poll taxes?
This court case opened the gates to more campaign funding by corporations.
What is Citizens United v. FEC? (or "Citizens United")
This position oversees voting.
What is Secretary of State?
No more smoke-filled backroom shenanigans: political parties now make presidents compete in these.
What are primaries?
License plates in this area of the country read "no taxation without representation."
What is Washington, D.C.?
This longtime member of the House of Representatives supported the Freedom to Vote Act, which failed in a 50-50 vote.
Who is John Lewis?
Interest groups form this, when they work with Congressional committees and parts of the federal bureaucracy.
What is an iron triangle?
Revealing my opinion: I'm a fan of this recent change that Brattleboro, VT made to its voting system.
What is 16-year-olds can vote?
After this Texas President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, many voters in the South switched from voting consistently Democratic to consistently Republican.
Who is President Lyndon Johnson?
"Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" was the call to action as U.S. citizens called for lowering the voting age in this Amendment.
What is the 26th?
This group grew significantly during the Jim Crow era, from about 1890 to the 1960s.
What is the KKK?
This group can raise unlimited funds for an independent organization to support a candidate.
What is a Super Pac?
In part because Article 1, Section 8 granted the federal government the power to establish this; while in 2021 Vermont became the 7th state in the country to institute this. (two answers)
What is the post office, and mail-in voting?
Who says bipartisaship isn't possible? In 1984, this president won every single state except Minnesota.
Who is Reagan?
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once said that because of this Amendment, "you can trace the decline of so-called states’ rights throughout the rest of the 20th century.”
What is the 17th?
(The 17th took away state legislators' power to appoint U.S. Senators. They're now elected by popular vote.)
Some say this Supreme Court decision abolished the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is Shelby v. Holder? (or "Shelby") (must say in italics)
"BLANK is to BLANK, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires," wrote Madison in Federalist 10.
What is liberty is to faction?
The reason President Biden did not appear on the primary ballot in New Hampshire on January 23.
What is Democrats, and Biden, wanted South Carolina to be first? (can't accept "NH too white")
Because the Democratic Party supported two candidates (a Democrat and a Progressive), this 20th-century Republican President won the popular vote by a 25.2-point margin, one of the largest ever.
Who is Coolidge?
The specific topics of each of the six voting amendments.
15, can't deny vote based on race; 17, popular vote for Senators; 19, women's right to vote; 23, D.C. residents can vote for President; 24, no poll taxes; 26, lower age to 18
In this year that the 15th Amendment was ratified, Mississippi elected to the Senate Hiram Revels, the first Black Senator in American history.
What is 1870?