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Political Parties
Electoral College
Elections
Voters and Voting Rights
Candidates and Campaigns
100
This is a group of people with broad common interests who organize to win elections
What is a political party?
100
Total number of electoral votes
What is 538?
100
Election Day, 2012
What is Tuesday, November 6?
100
suffrage
What is the right to vote?
100
The incumbent running for President
Who is Barack Obama?
200
A political system that has more than two dominant political parties
What is mulitparty system
200
The state that has the most electoral votes
What is California?
200
provided a new system of campaign financing
What is Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971?
200
Legistlation that abolished literacy tests
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
200
Candidates for president and vice president are called the party's:
What is ticket?
300
a third party that focuses exclusively on one major economic, social or moral issue
What is single-issue party?
300
The individuals who are selected to cast a ballot for the Electoral College
What is an elector?
300
Groups that support political candidates through campaign contributions
What are PACs (political action committees)
300
Ratified in 1920
What is the 19th Amendent (women's right to vote)?
300
responsible for the organization and leadership of a campaign
What is a campaign manager?
400
Under this system, no matter how many candidates compete, only one will win
What is single-member district or winner take all
400
The number of electoral votes a presidental candidate needs to win the election
What is 270?
400
The type of election where only members of a political party can vote
What is a closed primary?
400
voters that are caught between issues
What are cross-pressured voters
400
When a candidate has a campaign ad that features him/her in front of an American flag
What is transfer?
500
when several officials are elected to represent voters in an area
What is proportional representation
500
The place and year the Electoral College was created
Constitutional Convention; Philadelphia 1787
500
Private meetings held to choose party candidates
What is a caucus?
500
The FOUR requirements for voting in Minnesota
What is 18 years old, US citizen, living in MN for 20 days, have any felony conviction record discharged, expired, or completed
500
The names of the 2 major party candidates running for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat
Who is Amy Klobachar and Kurt Bills