Expansion of Voting
The 15th Amendment granted voting rights to these people.
Who are African American men?
This is how the number of electors is determined in each state.
What is the number of House members plus 2 (the number of Senators)?
This group decides the rules for campaign funding
What is the Federal Elections Commission?
Name four of the major sources of media coverage
TV, Internet, Radio, Newspaper, Social Media, Podcasts
This is the constitutional clause for Citizens United v. FEC.
What is Freedom of Speech - 1st Amendment
The 19th Amendment granted voting rights to these people.
Who are women?
This aspect of the Electoral College leads some people to question its democratically representative quality and keeps the two party system solidly in place.
What is the winner-take-all system?
After the primary election, the next election is called this.
What is the general election?
This refers to the role of the media that decides which stories get reported on and how.
What is agenda setting?
This is what the Federal Election Campaign Act limited.
The 24th Amendment outlawed these restrictions on voting.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
The Electoral College was a compromise that helped ratify the Constitution. Name another compromise during the Constitutional Convention.
3/5ths
Connecticut/Great
Importation of slaves
People who vote based on how a member of Congress has voted in the past is most likely adhering to this theory of voting behavior.
What is retrospective voting?
Name two of the four major types of linkage institutions
Voting/elections, Political Parties, Interest Groups, the Media
This is the loophole and type of money that was used to raise massive amounts of money for campaigns in the 1990s.
What is soft money which meant that people and corporations could donate unlimited amounts of money to the political parties?
The 26th amendment granted these people the right to vote.
Who are people who are 18 years old?
These two states do not use the Winner-Take-All system, but instead distribute their electoral votes proportionally.
What are Nebraska and Maine?
Name two advantages that incumbents have when it comes to elections.
What are: constituent work, projects for their district, name recognition, direct mail/franking privilege, fundraising?
Most political scientists agree that U.S. media is most biased toward this
profit
This is the type of "money" that is now allowed because of Citizens United, where people and corporations can donate unlimited amounts to shell corporations that don't have to disclose donors.
What is "dark money?"
The 17th amendment also expanded voting rights in this way.
What is direct election of Senators?
The House votes. Each state gets one vote.
People who do not think that their vote matters and therefore do not participate in the government much have low levels of this.
What is political efficacy?
The media in the U.S. is different than other countries in this way.
Citizens United overturned this law that was passed in the early 2000s to try to combat the influence of soft money.
What is the McCain Feingold / Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act?