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GRAB BAG
100
A group of citizens with shared views on public matters and which works together to turn their views into government action.
What is a political party
100
Where most voters go to vote.
What is a polling place?
100
A paper ballot listing candidates and marked in private by voters.
What is a secret ballot?
100
The vote of the country's citizens.
What is the popular vote?
100
The main party system in the United States, which is made up of Democrats and Republicans.
What is the two party system?
200
The range of political views held by two or more political parties.
What is a political spectrum?
200
A location within a precinct where voting takes place?
What is a polling place?
200
Voters from any party choose candidates for the general election.
What is in an open primary?
200
A person chosen by each state to select the president and vice president.
What is an elector?
200
One of the most important rights held by U.S. citizens.
What is the right to vote?
300
The ruling that is most likely to outlaw parties with an opposing point of view.
What is a one-party system?
300
They plan what their party must do to achieve it's goals.
What are committees?
300
Voters who are not members of a political party.
What are independent voters?
300
A statement of a political party's views on important issues and policies.
What is a platform?
300
A voter who has some qualities of both parties.
What is a moderate?
400
Leaders from different parties in a multiparty system might form this type of group in order to cooperate and govern together.
What is a coalition?
400
There the party will nominate its candidates for president and vice-president.
What is the National Convention?
400
Voters of a specific party choose candidates for the general election.
What is a closed primary?
400
The votes cast by the electoral college.
What are electoral votes?
400
Two presidential candidates from third parties that took votes away from the Democrat and Republican candidates.
Who were Theodore Roosevelt and Ross Perot?
500
The way a political party chooses the person it wishes to run for office.
What is nominate?
500
They exist for one simple reason: to help elect their own candidates.
What are political parties?
500
Allows voters to elect leaders for all political parties.
What is a general election?
500
A part of a political party's platform that includes ideas for dealing with specific issues or policies?
What is a plank?
500
The country that the secret ballot originated.
What is Australia?