U.S. Government
The three branches of the U.S. Government
The age you must be in order to register to vote in the United States
18
The three Republican candidates running for President in 2020 (as of November)
Donald Trump
Joe Walsh
William Weld
“If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are, and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”
Joe Biden
An election prior to the general election in which voters select the candidates who will run on each party's ticket
Primary Election (Primaries)
Together, the House of Representatives and the Senate form this
Congress
The number of Democratic candidates running for President in 2020
18
“I believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind … where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel pride, not shame.”
Cory Booker
A group of persons called "electors," selected by the voters in each state, that officially elects the president and vice president
The Electoral College
Made up of 435 members serving two-year terms
The House of Representatives
A vote cast by someone who is unable to attend the official polling station to which the voter is normally allocated (also referred to as mail ballot)
Absentee Ballot
The candidate who has run for President twice before, and whose main issues include:
Restoring America’s standing on the global stage;
Strengthening economic protections for low-income workers in industries like manufacturing and fast food.
Joe Biden
“It’s time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government, and that includes a woman at the top.”
Elizabeth Warren
The number of electors in each state is equal to ___
That state's number of representatives in both houses of Congress
Made up of 100 members serving rotating 6-year terms
The Senate
For Primary Elections - the day you can declare a party if you are unaffiliated
The day of the Primary Election
Elected to Senate in 2012, this candidate is a former Harvard law professor who wants to bring “big, structural change,” with the goal of tilting power toward working people and away from big corporations and the rich
Elizabeth Warren
“I believe our country wants and needs some leadership that provides a vision of the country in which everyone could see themselves.”
Kamala Harris
Private meeting run by a political party at the county, district, or precinct level
Caucus
Three positions that the president can appoint
Cabinet officials, White House staff and Supreme Court justices
The New York State Voter Identification Requirements
This candidate favors fiscal restraint, free trade and moderate immigration reform, and has endorsed steps to legalize marijuana
William Weld
“We’ve got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit, to be president and it stuns me that nobody stepped up.”
Joe Walsh
State with the most Electoral College votes
California (55)