Voting
How many votes does it take to win the Presidential Election?
what is 270 votes
How many Senators are in Congress?
What is 100 senators
How many electoral votes does California get?
What is 55 votes
How many electoral college votes are there?
What is 538 votes.
Major-party presidential nominations are now determined primarily by?
What is convention delegates selected in party primaries caucuses, and state conventions.
How old do you have to be to vote?
what is 18 years old
How many people are in the House Of Representatives?
What is 435
What are the states with the most electors votes?
What is California (55)
What is Texas (38)
What is New York (29)
What is Florida (29)
What is Illinois (20) and
What is Pennsylvania (20)
Established in Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, the Electoral College is the formal body which elects________________?
What is the President and the Vice President of the United States.
Typically, the three important tasks of the presidential convention are to pick the presidential candidate, ___________ and _______________?
What is to select the Vice President, and what is to write the party's platform.
On what day does voting take place?
What is the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
How many Representatives each state is entitled to no matter the size of the population?
What is each state is entitled to a least one (1) Representative no matter the population size.
What two states do not use the winner-take-all system?
What is Nebraska and what is Maine.
When was the electoral college created?
What is the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Infotainment refers to?
What is news shows dressed up with drama and entertainment to entice viewers to tune in.
What is Motor Voter Act?
What is legislation allowing citizens to register to vote at the same time they apply for a driver's licenses or other state benefits
In the case of a tie who determines the President?
What is the The House of Representatives
Who is in charge of drawing California congressional district boundaries?
What is regulating the electorate?
What is the process of setting rules that define who can vote and how difficult or easy it will be to cast a ballot in an election.
According to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the primary function of law is to?
What is provide security, order and predictability in life.
In the United States presidential election a _______ is a member of the United States Electoral College who does not vote for the presidential or vice presidential candidate for whom they had pledge to vote.
What is Faithless Elector
The statement that third parties are irrelevant in modern day politics is less accurate that in the past due to the _____ _____ victories of the 2010 midterm elections.
What is the Tea Party.
What is a swing voter?
What is a person who have not made up their minds at the start of the campaign.
What is the perception that an elections victory signals broad support for the winner's proposed policies.
How many electoral college votes did former President Obama get in the Presidential election of 2012?
What is 332 votes.