Nominating Candidates
Campaigns
Campaign Financing
Elections and Voting
Campaigns and the Public Good
100
If no candidate gets a majority of the vote, some states hold a second election to allow voters to choose a winner.
What is Runoff Primary
100
Why is the effective use of media important to winning elections?
Candidates can reach more voters by using media.
100
U.S. political campaigns cannot receive direct contributions from these
Corporations
100
Suffrage
What is the right to vote
100
Motor-voter legislation
Makes voter registration easier
200
How are most candidates for U.S. office nominated?
Primary Elections
200
This president won the 1948 election because Whistle Stop campaigning.
Who is Harry Truman
200
The federal government places limits on campaign contributions to prevent
A person or group from having undue influence on candidates
200
Women won the right to vote with this
What is the Nineteenth Amendment
200
Some people say that candidates are so concerned with winning that they
Misinform Voters
300
Name two of the five ways that candidates are nominated.
Self-Announcement, Caucus, Convention, Petition, Primary Election
300
(T/F) Polling voters to find out which ideas they support can help candidates better target campaigns.
True
300
Name two things that candidates spend campaign money on to advertise.
Bumper stickers, campaign appearances, yard signs, direct mail, buttons, flyers, television advertising
300
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Set the legal voting age at 18
300
Why might one who feels alienated by politics not vote?
They feel that the individual's vote doesn't count
400
Type of primary that allows a registered voter to keep his or her party affiliation and still vote for candidates from any party
What is Open Primary
400
Name three types of media that may be used today in campaigning.
(answers may vary)
400
(T/F) The government provides public funding for congressional campaigns and limits spending
False
400
Name three of four requirements for voting
Age, citizenship, residence, registration status
400
Negative Campaigning
Points out flaws of the opposing candidates
500
What is a Nonpartisan Primary?
Type of primary in which all candidates are listed on the same ballot, despite their party affiliation.
500
What is Whistle Stop campaigning?
Candidates would stop along the way in small towns and address voters from the rear platform of a train.
500
In presidential campaigns, the ________ matches donations from political parties and PACs
Candidate
500
This gave African American men the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment
500
Critics of campaign advertising charge that an issue cannot
Be presented in 30 seconds
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