Texas Government

What party dominated Texas politics throughout most of the twentieth century

The most important role for political parties in Texas elections is to

State and local party organizations do all of the following EXCEPT

Why might parties at the state level have less power then that at the national level?

The process of __________ occurs throughout our early years, when parents, religious leaders, teachers and other influence out partisan identifications.

Texans are increasingly identifying themselves as

Which movement has had the largest impact on state legislative races in recent years?

Texas Democrats have been relegated to a minority status at the state level since

After 1994, Democrats controlled the Texas house until __________, but republicans held every statewide office.

The fastest-growing demographic group in Texas is __________, the majority of whom vote __________.

The main role of the precinct conventions is to select delegates to the __________ and possibly to submit resolution that may eventually become part of the party platform.

The Latino movement known as La Raza Unida occurred during the

The Dixiecrats abandoned the national Democratic Party in the 1948 presidential election over the issue of

Which of the following third-party movement had the most success in winning elections in the post World War II era?

Texas requires parties that did not get 5 percent of the vote in a previous statewide race to do all of the following EXCEPT

The latest new party formed in the United States in an election year was

The Libertarian Party can be considered

All the following are principals generally supported by the Tea Party movement EXCEPT

The Occupy movement is a political movement interested in limiting the influence of __________ in America

The __________ movement was a movement during the 1950's in which conservative Democrats in Texas supported Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower for the presidency because many of those conservative Democrats believed that the national Democratic Party had become too liberal.

The pattern beginning in the 1950's, of Texans voting for a republican president but sticking with conservative Democrats for state office is called

Although the democratic party dominated state politics for much of the twentieth century, by the 1950's it faced internal division between __________ and __________ Democrats.

By about the 1940's, a split between liberal and conservatives developed in the Democratic Party that focused on

The Democratic Party in the state shrank to become the minority party when

Conservative Democrats in Texas are also know as

When intraparty disputes split members into different groups, these groups are referred to as

Today, the Texas Democratic party's base is made up of all the following EXCEPT

One of the Republican Parties greatest weakness in Texas is its lack of support among

Which demographic group has the largest percentage share of voters in Texas

Latinos currently represent __________ percent of the Texas population

In Texas, primary elections are usually held in

Runoff primaries are generally held

The purpose of an __________ is to allow any registered voter to cast a ballot in either primary, but not both. There are no party restrictions.

What is the purpose of a primary election

The general election is held the first

Major state officials are elected in nonpresidential years because

In Texas, special elections are held for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to

Kinky Friedman and Carole Keeton Strayhorn ran for governor as __________ in 2006

For an independent candidate to get on the ballot in Texas, which requirement must they meet

Which statement concerning women's suffrage is correct

Texas was the first state in the South to

The poll tax disenfranchised

The poll tax was made illegal in federal elections in __________ but remained legal in state elections in Texas until __________.

The poll tax was made illegal in federal elections with the passing of the

What is the significance of the Supreme Court case Smith v. Allwright?

In __________ the U.S. Supreme court held that the state executive committees were acting as agents of the state and were discriminating in violation of the fourteenth amendment

The most important federal law involved in the expansion of the franchise in Texas was the

The voting rights act has been renewed several times since 1965, and new provisions have been added since then. For example,

Which of the following is NOT a requirement to vote in Texas

In what case did the Supreme Court rule that a key section of the voting rights act was unconstitutional, which affects a key provision requiring Texas to have its new districts approved by the U.S. department of justice

The Motor Voter act of 1993

Approximately what percentage of the state's voting age population is registered to vote

Highly partisan legislation passed in 2011 now requires Texans to

In Texas, the __________ Party usually experiences higher voter turnout than the __________ party

The two most important factors that determine whether someone votes are

In which of the following elections is voter turnout the highest

Early voting increases the polling period from 12 hours to

Early voting in Texas has been shown to produce __________ to voter turnout

The process of __________ involves recalculating how many congressional districts each state will receive based on the state's population

In Texas, __________ is/are responsible for redistricting

Redistricting in Texas occurs

The procedure by which certain states, sucha s Texas, are required to obtain approval every time they make changes to districts is called

Preclearance is required by the

__________ is the traditional start of the general election campaign in Texas.

All of the following are modern-day tactics for preventing certain groups from voting EXCEPT

In Texas elections, the __________ plays the largest role ib the running campaigns.

Campaigns attempt to reach voters through all of the following EXCEPT

There is no questions that __________ is/are important for candidates success in Texas.

Name recognition often gives __________ a distinct advantage ion Texas elections

The most costly item for most political campaigns is

__________ was the first Republican to hold the office of Texas governor sice the end of Reconstruction

One effects of the high cost of campaigns in Texas is that

The 8F croud was

Which of the following is NOT a description of an interest group?

Which of the following is the farmers interest group that influenced the writing of the Texas Constitution of 1876

What do interest groups want from policy makers

Interest groups are often powerful in staes

The practice of combining several indivduals campaign contributions into one larger contribution from a group in order to increase the group's impact is know as

The Texas Medical Association is best describe as what kind of interest group

Which of the following is the bet example of public interest groups

The largest and most effective public employee interest group in Texas is mad up of

Which of the following is NOT a common way for interest groups to gain access to politicans and policy makers

Which of the following groups have had notable political success by litigationg in Federal courts

One important way for interest groups to gain access to those in Texas government is to employ __________ as lobbyists

What was the problem Speaker Sam Rayburn identified with the "steak men" at the beginning of the twentieth century

Texas has __________ laws dealing with lobbying by former government officals

__________ was the former Texas Speaker of the House who was indicated for taking an illegal gift from a law firm that specialized in collecting delinquent taxes for local government

Scandals about the "streak men", Bo Piligrim, and Frib Lewis resulted in

Which interest is NOT represented in a list of the top interest groups in Texas

One major way for interest groups to promote the political interests of elected officials who support their viewpoints and oppose the interests of those who do NOT is engaged in

Which is NOT a reason for forming a political action committee

Which political action committee spend the least amount of money in Texas elections

A private group that raises and distributes funds for use in election campaigns is called a

Battleground Texas is the latest attempt by the Democratic Party to do all of the folowing EXCEPT

Texas trial lawyers frequently ally with

When individuals or interest groups take out ads concerning a campaign issue but do not tie them directly to any particular candidate it is called

Most political action committee spending in Texas represents

As in the U.S. Congress, most campaign contributiuons inTexas go to

If an interest group "gets on the late train," it means

Which U.S. Supreme Court case in 2009 created the oppurtunity for organizations that opposed powerful incumbents to NOT disclose their donors