Political Parties - American Government Chapter 9
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This is a practice quiz game aligned to Political Parties Chapter 9 of Abernathy American Government Textbook
Topics of this game:
- Usually a party leader or activist who is not pledged to a candidate based on the outcome of the state's primary or caucus.
- A trend in which candidates develop their own strategies and raise money with less influence from the party elite.
- Voting for candidates from different parties in the same election.
- An election system for choosing members of the legislature where the winner is the candidate who receives the most votes, even if the candidate does not receive a majority of the votes
- An election in which a state's voters choose delegates who support a presidential candidate for nomination or an election by a plurality vote to select a party's nominee for a seat in Congress.
- An organized group of party leaders, officeholders, and voters who work together to elect candidates to political office.
- Groups of voters who support a political party over time.
- A decision by a state to push its primary or caucus to a date as early in the election season as possible to gain more influence in the presidential nomination process.
- A process through which a state's eligible voters meet to select delegates to represent their preferences in the nomination process.
- A primary election in which all eligible voters may vote, regardless of their party affiliation.
- Voting for all of the candidates on the ballot from one political party is
- A system in which two political parties dominate politics, winning almost all elections.
- A person who acts as the voters' representative at a convention to select the party's nominee.
- A primary election in which only those who have registered as a member of a political party may vote
- The process through which political parties identify potential candidates.
- A trend since 1969, in which one party controls one or both houses of Congress and the president is from the opposing party.
- Which type of primary system encourages people who are undecided or independent voters to easily participate?
- On which of the following issues would Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders most likely find a point of agreement during their 2016 campaigns?
- Which state has the first caucus in the nation?
- Which of these is NOT true of party platforms?
