State Capitals (for fun)
Alabama
Montgormery
This is is how we refer to the process by which the United States elects the President, even though that term does not appear in the U.S. Constitution. In this process, the States (which includes the District of Columbia just for this process) elect the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
This is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of many events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.
Media Bias
This is a strategy used to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.
Voter Suppression
New York
Albany
This President was one of the reasons there was a shift in political ideology between Democrats and Republicans during the 1930s
Who is FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
This is the selection of a state's electors for the Electoral College are awarded on this basis. Voters do not vote directly for electors, but instead vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidate team for which the electors are pledged.
What is the Winner-takes-all-system
This is a process that seeks to verify sometimes factual information, in order to promote the veracity and correctness of reporting.
Fact-Checking
This is the process whereby citizens register with election officials in order to become eligible to vote.
Voter Registration
Washington
Olympia
Which political party would most likely be associated with LGBTQ rights as apart of their platform?
What is New Democratic Party?
This is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C
what is the popular vote
These are interactive digitally-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation or sharing/exchange of information, ideas, career interests, and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
Social Media
This was a series of segregation laws enacted as early as the 1890s, primarily in the southern and border states. It included laws like literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause.
Jim Crow Laws
Idaho
Boise
This political party believes in supporting big businesses and entrepreneurship
What is the Republican Party?
This is the number of electoral votes that is awarded to the winner of a presidential election
What is 270
This is false or misleading information presented as news. It often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue.
Fake News
This is a federal law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. The act was passed in 1965 with the intent of enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Columbia
This party supports and encourages individual freedoms and equality of opportunity for all people. It favors multiculturalism as well as free trade.
What is the Libertarian Party?
This is what happens when the president does not win 270 votes in an election.
the House chooses one of the top three presidential electoral vote-winners as the president, while the Senate chooses one of the top two vice-presidential electoral vote-winners as vice president.
This is when the media acts as a watchdog to check the leaders in the Federal Government.
What is Holding Government officials accountable
This requires voters to present a form of identification to cast a ballot. Those who argue that this constitutes voter suppression cite claims that such laws disproportionately affect low-income, minority, and disabled populations who are less likely to have a form of identification that fits state requirements.
Voter Id Laws