Section 1A
This is the system where a single political party controls the government.
What is a one-party system?
This is a person who runs for government Office.
What is a candidate?
The planning for each political party is done through a series of this.
What are committees?
Citizens may register as this kind of voter, which means that they are not members of a political party.
What are independent voters?
This is one of the people chosen from each state and the District of Columbia who formally select the president and vice president. The group of all the electors is called the electoral college.
What is an elector?
This is a group of citizens with similar views on public issues who work to put their ideas into effective government action.
What are political parties?
This is a system in which there are more than two strong political parties.
What is a multi-party system?
This is where voting takes place.
What is a polling place?
This type of candidate, one who does not belong to a political party can have his or her name printed on the general election ballot if enough supporters sign a petition.
What is an independent candidate?
This is the vote of the citizens of a country.
What is the popular vote?
This is the job to select candidates to run for political Office.
What is nomination?
This means that we have two main political parties.
What is a two-party system?
After winning the nomination of their party, presidential candidates who accept public financing _______ accept private contributions.
(you don't have to answer in a question on this one, just say can or can't)
Can't
1. This election takes place first and is usually held in the late spring or early summer. The election allows voters to choose the party candidates who will run in the later election.
2. In this election voters choose their leaders from the candidates offered by all the political parties.
1. What is the primary election?
2. What is the general election?
These are votes cast by electors for president and vice president.
What are electoral votes?
This is an agreement between two or more political parties to work together.
What is a coalition?
This is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so.
What is a third party?
These are the largest party committees.
What are national committees?
1. These are the two main types of primary elections.
2. In this type of primary election voters may vote for the candidates of either major party, whether or not the voters belong to that party.
3. In this type of primary election only those voters who are registered in a particular party can vote to choose the party’s candidates.
1. What are the open primary and closed primary?
2. What is the open primary?
3. What is the closed primary?
This is a statement of the party’s views and policies on important issues. It sets out the party’s program for actions to address the nation’s problems. Each part of it is called a plank.
What is a platform?
This refers to the range of differences in such political views between parties.
What is political spectrum?
This amendment changed the method of electing U.S. senators to allow them to be elected directly by voters.
What is the seventeenth amendment?
For elections, all counties, cities, and wards are divided into voting districts called this.
What are precincts?
This is a paper ballot that lists the names of the candidates. A voter marks his or her ballot in private.
What is a secret ballot?
These were the first two U.S. presidential nominees to face off in a nationally televised presidential debate.
Who were Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy?