Executive Branch

Which two states, although they have very few Electoral College votes, hold an extremely important influence over the process of choosing the American President with voting coming early in the primary/caucus season?

• New York & California
• South Carolina & New Mexico
• Florida & Texas
• Iowa & New Hampshire

In case the President is disabled, the way the Vice President becomes President is determined by the...

• 25th Amendment
• Original Constitution
• Congress
• Supreme Court

According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1974, which of these officers follows the Vice President in line of presidential succession?

• Speaker of the House
• President pro tempore of the Senate 
• Secretary of State 
• Secretary of Treasury

The Electoral College

• functions largely independently of the major political parties
• provide for a winner-take-all system of election in all 50 states
• requires that the candidate who receives a plurality of the votes (the most) will be elected to the office of president
• requires that a candidate receive a majority (270 electoral votes) to be elected president.

The people entitled to vote in a given election are known as

• Platform
• Electorate
• Representatives
• Congress

This presidential role shows the president as the main architect of a nation's public policies.

• Chief executive
• chief legislator
• chief of party
• commander in chief

This role shows the president as the representative of the people.

• Chief legislator 
• Chief diplomat
• Chief administrator
• Chief citizen

This role shows the president as the ceremonial head of the government.

• Chief of state
• Chief of party
• Chief executive
• Chief legislator 

Most of the Framers opposed choosing the President by popular vote because they...

• Did not think voters in such a large country would be able to learn enough about the candidates to make an informed decision.
• Feared there would be widespread fraud if a national vote was allowed
• Believed the average voter would choose not to vote
• They did not have the technology to count a national vote quickly

To say that the presidential primary season is now "front loaded" means that...

• Only successful candidates attract funding from party loyalists.
• Very few candidates now enter the early caucuses and primaries
• Only the most populous states determine who the parties' nominees will be
• The vast majority of the contests occur early in the process.