Election Strategy and Voting Rules
Clue: This type of primary lets voters choose which party’s primary to participate in without being registered with that party.
Answer: What is an open primary?
Clue: This amendment protects freedom of petition.
Answer: What is the First Amendment?
Clue: This type of campaign money is regulated and given directly to candidates or party committees.
Answer: What is hard money?
Clue: This is the number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
Answer: What is 270?
Clue: This economic system is based on private ownership and profit.
Answer: What is capitalism?
Clue: This is the current officeholder running for reelection.
Answer: What is an incumbent?
Clue: This amendment requires direct election of U.S. senators by voters.
Answer: What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
Clue: This type of political spending is done without coordinating with a candidate’s campaign.
Answer: What is an independent expenditure?
Clue: These two states are the main exceptions to the winner-take-all system.
Answer: What are Maine and Nebraska?
Clue: This happens when supply is greater than demand at a given price.
Answer: What is a surplus?
Clue: This type of voting happens when a voter judges a candidate or party based on past performance.
Answer: What is retrospective voting?
Clue: This amendment changed the presidential election process by having electors vote separately for president and vice president.
Answer: What is the Twelfth Amendment?
Clue: This kind of organization may engage in political activity while avoiding the same public donor-disclosure rules as some other political groups.
Answer: What is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization?
Clue: This is an elector who does not vote for the candidate they were expected or pledged to support.
Answer: What is a faithless elector?
Clue: This is the economic policy area controlled mainly by Congress and the president through taxes and spending.
Answer: What is fiscal policy?
Clue: This type of voting happens when a voter judges a candidate based on what they expect the candidate to do in the future.
Answer: What is prospective voting?
Clue: This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Answer: What is the Fourth Amendment?
Clue: This Supreme Court case protected independent political spending by corporations and unions as a form of First Amendment speech.
Answer: What is Citizens United v. FEC?
Clue: If no vice-presidential candidate receives an electoral majority, this body chooses the vice president.
Answer: What is the Senate?
Clue: This type of tax charges everyone the same rate, regardless of income level.
Answer: What is a flat tax, or proportional tax?
Clue: This is one major reason a presidential candidate might choose a running mate from a different region, age group, gender, or ideological wing of the party.
Answer: What is balancing the ticket?
Clue: This amendment defines citizenship and requires states to provide equal protection under the law.
Answer: What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Clue: This Supreme Court case struck down aggregate limits on how much one person could give across many federal candidates and committees.
Answer: What is McCutcheon v. FEC?
Clue: This is one major criticism of the Electoral College because many voters in noncompetitive states receive less campaign attention.
Answer: What is the focus on swing states?
Clue: This economic problem means overall prices are falling, which can cause consumers to delay purchases and businesses to earn less.
Answer: What is deflation?