Voting Amendments
What Amendment prevents the right to vote from being denied based on race, color or servitude?
15th Amendment
What is Party Line Voting?
Voting for all candidates from one political to all offices.
What is the general election?
The election for president.
What does a PAC stand for?
A Political Action Committee.
What is the Bandwagon effect?
What Amendment extends the right to vote to all sexes?
19th Amendment
What is a Voting Bloc?
A demographic group of people who reliably vote in a noticeable pattern.
What is a open primary?
Anyone can vote in either election regardless of how you are registered. (Only 1 vote)
What does the electoral college do?
Each state runs it's own election. The winner of the popular vote get's all of the state's electoral votes.
What is Political Analysis Reporting?
Explanations on news topics by experts to help others understand complex topics.
Fill in the blank: The 24th Amendment outlaws _________
Poll Taxes
What is the Retrospective model of voting?
Voting based off of the recent past of a canidate.
Individual people take part in the _______ vote.
Popular
What is Hard Money?
Money that is subject for FEC regulations.
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What did the 26th Amendment change in voting rights?
Lowered the legal voting age to 18.
What is the Incumbency Advantage Phenomenon?
The person who currently holds a position is more likely to win in a upcoming election.
What type of primary election does the state of Maryland hold?
A closed election.
What is a iron triangle?
The relationship between Congress, Bureaucracy and Interest Groups.
Which Supreme Court case allowed for the creation of SuperPACs?
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
What event caused the implementation of the 26th Amendment?
The Vietnam War
Rational Choice
The state of Idaho holds what type of primary?
It does not, it holds a Caucus.
What is a Rank and File member?
The ordinary members of an organization.
The x intercepts of this equation on the interval 0<=θ <2π (2 pi)...
y = 3cos(3/2x - π/3)
π = pi
x = 5π /9
x= 11π /9
x= 17π /9