Political Campaigns and Elections in the U.S.
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- The group that tends to be overrepresented in the electorate is young voters age 18-24.
- When a political party has a strong presidential candidate, they would prefer the party-column ballot.
- A major function of the mass media is conducting elections.
- In presidential debates the incumbent has more to gain than the challenger
- Women voters are more supportive of extending rights to gay men and lesbians.
- Internet polling is problematic because many Americans don't go online
- The era of Good Feeling was from 1810-1819
- The early democratic party was uniformly hostile toward African-Americans
- Republicans have been known as the party of business and self-reliance.
- Most of the president's nominees for federal judicial positions are chosen on a partisan basis.
- Candidates for U.S senate must be a resident from the state elected and 30 years of age.
- Candidates for public office are likely to be lawyers
- The goal of the political campaign is to win the election.
- The goal of the political campaign is to provide competition that will allow the most qualified candidate to be elected.
- Most PAC contributions go to the challenger.
- Voting by mail greatly reduces the possibility of voter fraud.
- The cost of campaigning has been driven up by the need to purchase billboard advertisement.
- One of the major tactics of paid-for political announcements is to use positive advertisement.
- Most of the media in the United States are private, for profit corporate enterprises.
- When we say the media helps set the public agenda, we mean the media identifies issues that merit attention.
- Spin refers to
- Voter turnout for local elections is
- For a political action committee to be legitimate, it must
- most political consultants
- People who choose to run for office can be divided into two groups:
- One of the largest obstacles for potential presidential candidates is
- a major reason for the two-party system is the election based on
- The party in government is
- the party in the electorate is
- the first partisan political division in the United States was between
