ELECTION SYSTEM
a person who is running for an office.
What is a candidate?
This document begins with the words, "We the People," and is the supreme law of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This president said: "Make America Great Again"
Who is Donald Trump?
a piece of paper listing the candidates running for office. This paper is used to cast a vote.
What is a ballot?
The pornstar who Donald Trump had an affair with, and was found guilty of paying off in a court case in New York City this year.
Who is Stormy Daniels?
The institution that makes the country's laws, and which is divided into the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is Congress?
The leader of the executive branch of the U.S. government.
Who is the President?
This president said: "Yes we can!"
Who is Barack Obama?
You do this before you can vote at an American election.
What is register to vote?
Donald Trump's vice president when he begins his new term.
Who is JD Vance?
A state where the outcome of the election is not certain before election day.
What is a swing state?
a major US political party. The symbol of the Party is the donkey. The first US President of the party was Andrew Jackson.
What is the Democratic Party?
This president said: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Levinsky"
Who is Bill Clinton?
a box in which votes are placed.
What is a ballot box?
He was Kamala Harris' candidate for vice president.
Who is Tim Walz?
An expression of how Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court respectively have the opportunity to limit each other’s power.
What are checks and balances?
This U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing slaves in Confederate states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This president said: "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
a vote for a third party candidate (who is not likely to win) that is meant to show displeasure with the mainstream candidates or parties.
What is a protest vote?
Donald Trump had great succes in motivating this minority group of people to vote for him.
Who are latinos?
A group of people who formally elect the president of the USA (their vote happens after the popular vote).
What is "The Electoral College"
The day the founding fathers sat down and wrote the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4, 1776?
This president said: "Mr. Gorbatjov, tear down this wall!"
Who is Ronald Reagan?
a person who campaigned for the right of women to vote. The 19th amendment (ratified in 1920) to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote.
What is a suffragette?
This is the Trump Campaign's slogan for their energy policy.
What is "Drill, baby, drill!"?