The Electoral College
This is who the electoral college empowers.
What is "the states?"
This is the constitutional freedom/amendment relevant to the Citizens United case.
What is the "freedom of speech/first amendment?"
Voting for Democrats no matter what.
What is "party-line voting?"
What ideology is associated with the Democratic Party and which ideology is associated with the Republican Party?
Democrat-liberal
Republican-conservative
If you support equality of opportunity, what is one policy you would support.
What is "affirmative action/civil rights act/voting rights act, etc"?
What is "obtain a majority of the electoral votes (270 or above)?
This is an independent expenditure.
What is "spending money to support a candidate without donating money directly to a candidate's campaign or working with their campaign?"
This is voting for whichever party promises to cut your taxes.
What is "rational choice voting?"
Name three beliefs associated with the liberal ideology.
What is "support for abortion, support for minimum wage, support for civil rights and social services, support for government spending to reduce poverty?"
If you support individualism, what do you believe the government's role should be in providing opportunities to the poor?
What is "the government should not take such actions?"
This is how you win a state's electoral votes.
What is "win a plurality of popular votes in the states?"
This is why the Supreme Court ruled independent expenditures are protected under the first amendment.
What is "they are an expression of political views or political speech or symbolic speech?"
Voting for a candidate based on their past support for abortion.
What is "retrospective voting?"
Name three beliefs associated with the conservative ideology.
What is "opposition to abortion, opposition to affirmative action, support government promotion of religion, support strong military, against government regulation of businesses/economy."
What would be an example of "rule of law" playing out in real life?
What is "a powerful elected official getting sent to jail for crimes?"
This is why Texas has 38 electoral votes.
What is "they send 36 people to the House of Reps and 2 people to the US Senate."
This is how the Citizens United ruling has negatively impacted democracy.
What is "allowed the wealthy to spend millions of dollars to influence elections?"
Voting for a candidate based on their promise to oppose abortion in the future.
What is "prospective voting?"
Name three demographic groups likely to lean conservative.
What are "whites, wealthy, men."
What would be an example of "limited government"?
The Supreme Court striking down the Gun Free School Act for
This is why the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections undermine the idea of one-man-one-vote.
What is "the candidate who won the electoral college did not win the most popular votes?"
You are a billionaire wishing to influence tax policy. This is how you can impact policy after the Citizens United ruling.
What is "set up a SuperPac, spend millions of dollars on advertisements promoting the tax policy, which will convince voters to support candidates supporting the tax policy, and elected officials to support it as well."
Name three demographic groups likely to lean liberal.
What are "women, highly educated, racial minorities."