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People who become members of interest groups in response to material incentives join __________ .
What is to receive direct economic benefits
100
The __________ Party is a left-of-center pro-environmental party that is generally hostile to globalization.
What is Green
100
An organized refusal to purchase a particular product or to deal with a particular business as a form of pressure or protest is known as __________.
What is a boycott
100
The 2008 Democratic primary contest was fought between Barack Obama and __________
What is Hillary Rodham Clinton
100
Dealignment occurs when __________.
What is loyalties and long-term party commitment decline
200
Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy share the similarity that they
What is became president without a majority of the popular vote
200
When groups of voters grow large enough and change the partisan balance in a state, __________ occurs
What is tipping
200
The process by which people acquire political beliefs and attitudes is known as __________.
What is political socialization
200
The writers of the Constitution allowed __________ to decide who should vote
What is the states
200
Voting exclusively for the candidates of one party is known as __________.
What is straight-ticket voting
300
The manner in which members of the electoral college are selected by each state is currently governed by __________.
What is state laws
300
__________ sees political struggle as the pitting of different groups against each other to reach a compromise.
What is Pluralism
300
A situation in which one party controls a state governorship and the other controls the state legislature is known as __________.
What is a divided government
300
By 2007, the number of African American elected officials was estimated to number more than __________
What is 9,500
300
In 2012, the presidential campaigns spent about __________.
What is $2 billion
400
A winner-take-all system is also known as a __________ voting system
What is plurality
400
A party leader or elected official who is given the right to vote at the national convention is called a(n)
What is super delegate
400
Which of the following statements is true concerning party support?
What is Data from recent elections suggest that America’s rich and superrich elite are shifting to the Democratic Party.
400
Potential voters are most interested in __________.
What is national elections, when a presidential choice is involved
400
In cases where no presidential candidate receives a majority of the electoral college vote, __________.
What is the election is decided in the U.S. House of Representatives
500
Which statement about geographic region and political preference is correct?
What is Democrats have an advantage in 29 states and the District of Columbia
500
Under Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic Party ___________.
What is endorsed the idea that government should become involved in the economy
500
Efforts to restrict lobbying, such as the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, have been a challenge because __________.
What is lobbyists often find loopholes in lobbying legislation
500
According to poll data, __________.
What is in the last two presidential elections less than 10 percent of voters in pro-Bush counties earned over $100,000
500
Legislation to reform the regulation of federal lobbying in 1995 resulted in the _________.
What is registration of persons who spend more than 20 percent of their working time lobbying Congress or the executive branch