Review Political Parties

All of the following are true of third parties except

• Increase the options for voters to pick from
• Win national elections frequently
• put important issues out for discussion
• can spoil an election by taking votes from one of the two major parties

Super PAC's were creating following

• President Obama signing an executive order
• Congress signing them into law
• A supreme court ruling, Roe V Wad
• A supreme court ruling, Citizens United vs FEC

In order to win the presidency

• the candidate must earn 1/2 of the states nomination
• the candidate must win the popular vote
• the candidate must win 270 electoral college votes
• the candidate must be selected by the house or represenatives

All of the following are purposes of political parties in the U.S. EXCEPT

• protest when the other parties when the presidency
• help run campaigns
•  to serve as a watchdog on the party in control of the 
• encourage citzens' to get out and vote

Primaries and caucuses use different methods but both serve the same goal of

• electing national delegates
• selecting the states elector
• selecting supreme court justices
• selecting political party candidates

^{"Winner-take-all" system is best described as}

• the winner in a statewide election will earn all electoral votes 
• the state can split the electors between the top two candidates
• the winner of the primary election will win the general election
• the winner of the presidency will take all the power of the executive branch

Shifting away from both major parties - a rise in independents

• party dealignment
• party realignment
• critical election
• independent expenditure

holding primaries early in the election cycle to get more media attention

• frontloading
• backloading
• media loading
• open primary

Type of elections in the United States

• plurality - winner take all
• plurality - proportional representation
• majority - winner take all
• majority - proportional

a major, lasting shift in a party coaltion

• party dealignment
• electoral earthquake
• coalition realignment
• party realignment