Elephants & Donkeys
The acronym "G.O.P." stands for...
What is Grand Ole Party?
Zachary Taylor won the 1848 election with 1,361,394 votes. He would have had one more, but this happened...
What is he didn't vote for himself?
The name of a member of the U.S. Electoral College who does not vote for the presidential or vice-presidential candidates they pledged to support, instead voting for someone else or abstaining...
What is a Faithless Elector?
According to Article I of the U.S. Constitution, this is the minimum age requirement to serve in the U.S. Senate.
What is 30?
The only non-state where the residents can casts ballots in presidential elections.
The donkey is a symbol of the Democratic Party because of this president/candidate...
Who was Andrew Jackson – one of the founders of the Democratic party? He was called a “jackass” by his opponents and … he embraced it.
This President was the first one born in a hospital.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The Electoral College was one of the largest compromises of this early American governance event.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
According to Article I of the U.S. Constitution, this is the minimum age requirement to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives
What is 25?
This Constitutional Amendment ensured women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
The KKK, which arose almost immediately after the Civil War was comprised almost completely of members of this party.
What are Southern white Democrats?
This presidential candidate had the the biggest margin of victory.
Who was James Monroe during the Era of Good Feelings?
If no presidential candidate receives 270 electoral votes during an election, this group determines who will be president.
Who is the House of Representatives?
THis Senator was the longest serving Senator in history- over 50 years.
Who is Robert Byrd (WV)
Election Day is the first Tuesday after November 1. This date was set to encourage voting because...
What is allowing more rural/agrarian citizens enough time to travel? (Early November is far enough away from both the harvest and harsh winter weather to avoid interfering with big agricultural obligations.)
This Republican symbol is an elephant because ...
What is due to Civil War Slang?
The image first appeared during the 1860s. The phrase "seeing the elephant" was common Civil War slang among soldiers meaning to experience combat
This was the worst finish in history for an incumbent president running for reelection was...
Who was William Howard Taft in 1912, with 23.2 percent of the popular vote.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the election handily as Taft split the Republican vote with former President Theodore Roosevelt, who ran as the standard bearer for the Bull Moose Party.
You know a presidential candidate needs 270 electoral college votes to win the Presidency. This is the number of total electoral college votes that are are up for grabs
What is 538?
Members of Congress commute between their office buildings and the legislative chambers via open air...
What is subway?
This was the year was the voting age lowered from 21 to 18.
Name the Amendment.
When was 1971?
What is the 26th Amendment?
Both political symbols (as well as Santa Claus and Uncle Sam) were popularized, and given their modern forms, by the same maverick cartoonist named...
Bonsu - Name the publication this cartoonist worked for?
Who is Thomas Nast?
What is Harpers Bazaar?
This newspaper famously went to press with the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" in the 1948 presidential election.
What is the Chicago Daily Tribune?
Name the two states that do not award electors in a 'winner take all' format.
What are Maine and Nebraska?
Both states allocate votes proportionally by congressional district.
Since 1965, a specific desk on the Republican side of the Senate floor is designated as this desk. By tradition, whichever Senator sits there is responsible for keeping it fully stocked
What is the Candy Desk?
Often stocked with local treats from their home state—for any member to grab during long debate
The name of the piece of legislation that outlaws racial discrimination in voting
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This enshrined the rights of the 14th and 15th Amendments for all Americans.