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Barack H. Obama
Who won the 2008 presidential election?
100
shellacking
What was Pres. Obama's phrase for the 2010 election outcome that Democrats experienced?
100
The Life of Julia
What was the controversial infographic produced by the Obama campaign in 2012?
100
GOTV
What is the abbreviated name for Get-Out-the-Vote efforts to increase turnout?
100
Ted Cruz
Who was judged most-conservative candidate in the Republican nomination contest?
200
1960
What was the last year before 2008 in which a northern liberal won the presidency?
200
Enthusiasm Gap
What phenomenon kept pollsters from confidently predicting the 2010 congressional elections?
200
Benghazi
Where was an American embassy attacked during the 2012 presidential campaign?
200
peace and prosperity
What widely held goals stopped being associated with the Democratic Party?
200
independents
What voting group helped the candidacies of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump?
300
Hillary Clinton
Who was the frontrunner Obama beat to win the 2008 Democratic primary?
300
honeymoon period
What does a president enjoy in the days immediately after taking office?
300
spatial models
What approach to understanding voting focuses entirely on ideology?
300
the ground game
What is the name for a party's or campaign's effort to mobilize supporters instead of swing votes?
300
African-American Democrats
What voting group played the greatest role giving Hillary Clinton the Democratic nomination?
400
Guantanamo Bay
Which prison facility did candidate Obama promise to close if became president?
400
midterm loss
What does the president's party suffer two years after taking the White House?
400
47% comments
What statement by GOP candidate Romney caused a controversy that may have hurt his campaign?
400
the gender gap
What is the difference between how much men support a political party and how much women support it?
400
superdelegates
Who are the Democratic convention delegates not selected by the voters?
500
Filibuster-proof majority
What did Democrats have in the Senate after Sen. Arlen Specter left the GOP?
500
Likely voters
What do pre-election polls need to estimate before they can forecast election outcomes?
500
retrospective voting
What is the term for when voters decide based on past conditions or performance?
500
Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Who became Sen. Majority Leader as a result of the 2014 elections?
500
free trade and trade agreements
Opposition to what policy united both Donald Trump on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left?