Quiz 12 & 13

Roughly what percentage of Americans rarely or never vote?

If you wanted to improve voter turnout, which of the following would you suggest?

What is one reason why incumbents have the advantage in elections?

Making campaign contributions is a form of ____.

If you are competing for you party's nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives, you must first participate in a(n) ____ election.

Which of the following do some consider to be a problem with the Electoral College?

Which of the following is a criticism of early voting?

Which of the following is true about young citizens?

Voters who select a candidate based on the candidate's policy promises are making ____ judgments.

When a citizen votes for candidates from different parties in the same election, he or she is ____.

According to political scientists, which of the following has historically been the most successful mobilizer of Americans to vote?

Why has there been a growing use of recall elections in recent years?

A(n)____ is the process by which citizens propose legislation or constitutional amendments through the petition process followed by a popular vote.

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowered the voting age to eighteen?

If a state legislator wanted to avoid political accountability for a controversial proposal, you might suggest holding a(n) ____.

How do elections aid democracy?

What is front-loading?

Why are some people concerned about electronic voting?

How many electoral votes are needed to be elected president?

A majority of the ____ selects the president of the United States.

Nonprofit, tax-exempt groups that can spend no more than half of their money on campaign politics are not required to disclose the names of contributors are called ____.

The first negative campaigning at the presidential level was in 1980.

The nomination campaign may begin years before the actual election.

Candidates rarely make appearance on comedy shows such as Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show because the public does not take these outlets seriously.

Total PAC spending has increased every year since PAC's were created in 1972.

If a small newspaper writes an incendiary expose about a candidate, the person on the campaign staff who most needs to be made aware of it is the communications director.

Why do campaigns hire consultants?

Nomination campaigns ____.

The person in the campaign who is closest to the candidate and who makes the essential day-to-day decisions is the ____.

The national political party is prohibited from giving more than $2600 to any given candidate per election.

One difference between the primary election campaign and the general election campaign is the party of a candidate's opponents.

The brief, clever quotes that candidates hope will be replayed after media events are known as ____.

The ____ is the bureaucratic agency in the charge of monitoring federal campaign activity.

Who measures public opinion for a campaign?

One of the most basic methods of canvassing is ____.

Even though a candidate may not approve of negative ads, what is one reason he or she might agree to run them?

Republican candidates tend to accentuate their most conservative ideas in the primary and then attempt to appear more moderate during the general election.

"Spin" is when a campaign puts forward the most favorable possible interpretation for their candidate on any circumstance occurring in the campaign.

Which of the following is a strategy that campaigns frequently use when attempting to control media coverage?

Candidates can give as much money toward their own campaigns as they wish