Electoral College
What kind of states do candidates campaign most in?
What are swing states?
What agency enforces campaign finance laws for United States federal elections?
What is the Federal Election Commission?
What is government action based on firm allegiance to a political party?
What is partisanship?
Which amendment expanded the right to vote to include women?
What is the 19th Amendment?
What are the people that help cast in the vote for us called in the Electoral College?
What are electors?
What was the ruling for Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission?
What is "The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations."?
In an election, what is the number of votes that the leading candidate obtains over the next highest candidate?
What is plurality?
What is voting based on what a citizen believes is in their own best interest?
What is rational choice voting?
What are swing states?
What are states that have similar support for both parties and could easily impact the election?
Why are super PACs important for successful campaigns?
What is receiving unlimited contributions?
What are 3 functions of a political party?
What are picking candidates, running campaigns, making voting simpler, creating policy positions, and coordinating policy-making at different levels? (Any 3 of these)
What is voting by casting ballots for members of one political party for all offices on the ballot?
What is party-line voting?
Which state has the most electoral votes, and how many?
What is California with 55 votes?
How much money can Political Action Committees donate to individual candidates?
What is $5,000?
The most influential and powerful members of a political party are most likely found:
A. in party precincts.
B. at the state party level.
C. among party volunteers.
D. inside the national party.
What is "inside the national party"/D?
What is the term used to describe the confidence that an individual can make effective political change?
What is political efficacy?
What is one presidential candidate that has won the popular vote but lost the electoral college?
Who are Grover Cleveland, Samuel Tilden, or AI Gore?
What does the term “soft money” mean in the context of elections?
What are contributions made outside the limits and prohibitions of federal law with no requirement on where it is spent?
Which group is at the bottom of a political party's organizational structure and is most likely to be working within communities to reach voters and perform essential tasks?
A. volunteers
B. local county organizations
C. state parties
D. national parties
What are volunteers/A?
What are the efforts by political parties to encourage their members to vote?