The State of the Union
The number of electoral votes that Pennsylvania gets.
What is 16?
When whoever gets the most votes wins!
What is the popular vote?
Every state has two of these.
What are senators?
What is 1816?
True or False: A vote in Texas is worth more than a vote in Vermont because Texas is bigger.
What is false?
What is a swing state?
The colors that represents the two main political parties.
What are red and blue?
It is made up of delegates from each state, based off of their population.
What is the House of Representatives?
The amount of times in the last 20 years that the popular vote loser has won the presidency.
What is twice?
The amount of electoral votes a candidate needs to win the presidency.
What is 270?
What is 21?
The biggest defenders of the electoral college.
What are those who benefit from it (white southerners)?
It's made up of delegates from each state.
What is the Electoral College?
When the North and the South decided on a clause establishing enslaved people counting as only a fraction of a person.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush, Donald Trump
What are presidents that have won the election without winning the popular vote?
The reason why Texas gets more representatives than a state like Vermont.
What is its larger population?
When Americans vote for President, they are actually voting for __________.
What is who the STATE will vote for?
The year that replacing the electoral college passed through the House of Representatives.
The state where Donald Trump won over 4 million votes, but Hillary Clinton still won all 55 votes.
What is California?
A state where the margin is <5%.
What is a swing state?
The amount of money spent in campaigning in Florida in 2016.
What is $127 million?
The names of the parties of the blue and red states.
What are the Democrats and Republicans?
The meaning of the letters "D-MA" next to Senator Elizabeth Warren's name.
What is her party and state (Democrat-Massachusetts)?
What is 51%?
Many of the 2020 swing states were Republican ___________.
What are strongholds?