Democrat or Republican
The party that is more likely to believe in freedom of religion.
Who are the Democrats?
The "magic number" of electoral votes needed to win the presidential election.
What is 270?
The rewriting of district lines to benefit the party in power for future voting.
What is gerrymandering?
If no presidential candidates win the majority of electoral votes, the victor will then be decided here.
What is the House of Representatives?
The political party that is more likely to oppose the Affordable Care Act.
What is the Republican Party?
This party is generally more in favor of changing the electoral college. Why?
Who are the Democrats? They lost in the 2000 and 2016 Presidential Elections while winning the popular vote.
The total number of electors.
What is 538?
In an electoral district these seats are completely secure. In other words, there's very little chance that they change hands to another party.
What are safe seats?
The article, section, and clause of the U.S. Constitution that outlines the process of electing a president through electoral college.
What is Article II, Section I, Clause II?
The decision-making game that illustrates why it might not always be so wise to act in one's own self interest.
What is the prisoner's dilemma?
This party is more concerned with the high tax rates that American businesses face.
What is the Republican Party?
The number of electors Pennsylvania had in the 2020 Presidential Election and the number they will have in 2024. Why did this change?
What is 20 and 19? They lost a member in the House of Representatives by losing population in the most recent census.
The system of government that gives equal power to the federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
The Constitutional Amendment that was created to separate the election of president and vice president. Each elector must choose one candidate for president and one for vice president.
What is the 12th Amendment?
The only two states not to use a "winner-take-all" system, or popular voting, to award all their electoral votes to a presidential candidate.
What are Nebraska and Maine? They use a "proportional representation" system to distribute their electoral votes to candidates.
This party wants to create pro-worker trade policies.
Who are the Democrats?
It's not a state, but it does have representation in congress. Therefore, it has three electoral votes.
What is Washington DC?
This agreement among states was created to ensure that the presidential candidate with the most votes wins the most electoral votes and the presidency.
What is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?
These consecutive presidential elections are primary examples of why the 12th amendment is necessary.
What are the 1796 and 1800 Presidential Elections between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
What's one main argument for why the electoral college should be kept?
It upholds federalism, smaller states get an equal voice, etc.
The political party that is more in favor of improving the public school system through taxpayer dollars.
Who are the Democrats?
Explain why every state (and Washington DC) has at least three electoral votes.
Each state gets two senators and a least one seat in the house. Electoral votes are based off of representation in Congress.
Explain why a Republican might not like the idea of proportional districts in Pennsylvania.
Due to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia overwhelmingly voting Democrat each election, the east and west portion of Pennsylvania would go to the Democratic candidate more often than not.
"A 2/3rds vote in both houses of Congress, followed by the ratification of 3/4ths of the states" would be required to do this.
What is amending the constitution?
Someone who is against the electoral college would probably prefer a change to these systems of voting. (What are some alternatives to our current system of voting?)
What are "ranked-system voting" or proportional voting?