Functions and 2 Party System
Third Party and Political Figures
Republican or Democrat
Role of Media
Electoral College
100
Political parties recruit and nominate _______.
What is candidates?
100
Main reason third parties form.
What is to introduce new ideas and/or press for a particular issue?
100
Liberal party.
What is the democratic party?
100
Define the media.
What is the press, radio, television, etc.?
100
The offices selected by the Electoral College.
What is the vice president and the president?
200
All political parties want ____________________.
What is "their candidate to win"?
200
President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
Conservative party.
What is the Republican Party?
200
Strategies for evaluating the media.
What is separating fact from opinion, detecting bias, evaluating sources, and identifying propaganda?
200
The way that the slate of electors is chosen.
What is by popular vote?
300
The system that characterizes the American political process.
What is two-party system?
300
The latest Republican president.
Who is George W. Bush?
300
Oldest political party.
What is the democratic party?
300
Media's role in elections.
What is identifying candidates, emphasizing issues, writing editorials, creating political cartoons, publishing op-ed pieces, and broadcasting different points of views?
300
The Electoral College is based on the _________ system.
What is the winner take all system?
400
List the similarities between parties.
What is organize to win elections, influence public policies, reflect both liberal and conservative views, define themselves in a way that wins majority support by appealing to the center?
400
The president that proposed the "New Deal" marking a milestone in Democratic accomplishments.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
The party that is the majority party in the General Assembly.
What is the Republican Party?
400
Define bias.
What is favoring one side over the other?
400
The number of electors is based on _______.
What is the state's congressional representation?
500
The place where party differences are stated.
What is party platforms?
500
Secretary of State during the Bush administration (woman).
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
500
GOP=
What is the Grand Old Party?
500
Most used media source.
What is internet/tv?
500
The winner take all system leads to what?
What is targeting of densely populated states?
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