Nomination Process
Elections
Finance
The Ballot
Did you know? (T/F)
100
A group of like-minded persons who meet to choose candidates for office.
What is a caucus?
100
Occurs when a strong candidate running for an office at the top of the ballot helps attract voters to other candidates on the party's ticket.
What is the coattail effect?
100
The Commission that administers federal campaign finance laws.
What is the Federal Election Commission?
100
The device by which a voter registers a choice in an election.
What is the ballot?
100
Sneeze travels out of your nose at over 100mph.
What is true?
200
The political arm of a special interest group that seeks to influence the outcome of elections.
What is a political action committee? (PAC)
200
A voting district.
What is a precinct?
200
This is the most expensive part of campaigning.
What is media time?
200
This ballot is also called the Indiana Ballot and encourages straight ticket voting.
What is the Party-Column ballot?
200
States with the highest rates of gun ownership have the highest rates of suicide.
What is true?
300
An election held within a political party at which the voters choose candidates who will appear on the ballot in an upcoming general election.
What is a direct primary?
300
Where the voters who live in a precinct actually vote.
What is a polling-place?
300
These are the major sources of campaign contributions in American politics.
What are private contributions and public treasury?
300
After a nomination, candidates face in in this election.
What is a general election?
300
You will shed over 50lbs of skin in your lifetime.
What is false. 40 lbs
400
An election held in some states when a candidate does not carry a majority in the primary.
What is a runoff primary?
400
This helps voters prepare for an election.
What is a sample ballot?
400
These two senators came up with campaign finance reform.
Who are John McCain and Russ Feingold?
400
The date of most elections.
What is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November?
400
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
What is true?
500
The naming of those who will seek office.
What is a nomination?
500
Name two benefits of voting machines.
Reduces fraud, counting errors, speeds up voting process, eliminates manual vote counting...
500
The amount of money spent on recent presidential elections.
What is $1 billion?
500
Is most election law state law or federal law.
What is State Law?
500
The world's largest amphibian.
What is a giant salamander?
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