Exam 8: Campaigns and Elections

The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate,such as his or her strengths,weaknesses,background,experience,and visibility,is known as __________.

If you were a Democrat running for president,what rationale would you advance for skipping the Iowa caucuses and concentrating your time and money in New Hampshire?

Which candidate in 2000 lost the Electoral College vote and did not become president?

Which of the following could have a serious impact on whether a close presidential election could actually be decided on Election Day?

An election with no incumbent running is called __________.

What are electors? Discuss the ways they are currently selected in the United States.

To win their parties' nominations,presidential candidates __________.

Which of the following would be a likely disadvantage of regional primaries in the nomination of presidential candidates?

As a candidate for the __________ Party,you would expect to receive a number of delegates proportional to the number of votes you won in a primary.

What states did the Democratic National Committee attempt to punish in 2008 for moving their primaries to January?

If no candidate gets a majority of the Electoral College vote for vice president,__________.

What role do individual citizens play in elections? How will new technologies likely affect citizens' involvement in elections in the future?

All states limit the terms of state legislators.

Supreme Court decisions in 2010 and 2014 __________ the effects of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in reducing the influence of money in campaigns.

Barack Obama's successful campaigns for president in 2008 and 2012 resulted in __________ in both elections.

What steps did the Democratic Party take to ensure more diversity among delegates to conventions?

If you were a campaign manager and determined that your party was experiencing a backlash against immigration policies,what would be your strategy?

As a candidate for election in today's campaigns,you could expect to take off the time between the convention and Labor Day to rest up for the rest of the campaign.

In the early years of the United States,suffrage was a right for __________.

How does a party's success in congressional elections correspond to the party of presidential candidates and sitting presidents?