Exam 9: Political Parties

In 1994

Which statement about party identification in the United States is MOST accurate?

Voters who prefer third-party candidates but vote for the major-party candidate whom they regard as the "lesser of two evils" are engaged in

Women in the United States are ________ the ________ Party.

Party activists are ________ likely to contribute time to party affairs and ________ likely to hold more extreme views than the party's rank-and-file voters.

Soft money was made illegal as a result of the

The New Deal coalition was severely strained and ultimately broken apart by the

________ are independent, nonprofit groups that receive and distribute funds to influence the nomination, election, and/or defeat of a candidate.

At any given time in American politics, how many parties have tended to dominate politics?

Under federal election law, only

A party's ________ contains its philosophy, principles, and policy positions.

Which of the following groups was NOT part of the New Deal coalition?

From the end of the Civil War to the 1890s, the ________ Party was the party of the North, while the ________ Party was the party of the South.