CHMS CE5a, b Political Parties

Select EACH of the following functions of political parties.

• Helping candidates win elections

• Educating the electorate about campaign issues

• Recruiting and nominating candidates

• Helping candidates lose elections

The citizens who are eligible to vote in an elections are called the ____________.

• We the people

• electorate

• unregistered voters

When you keep officeholders accountable by watching how they vote once elected you are ___________

• monitoring their actions

• recruiting and nominating

• helping them win

• doing nothing

Which of the following is NOT a similarity between political parties?

• Define themselves by appealing to the political center

• Organize to win elections

• Reflect both liberal and conservative views

• stated in the party's platform

Where would you look to find the differences between political parties?

• the political center

• there are no differences

• party platform

Which group introduces new ideas but rarely win elections?

• democrats

• republicans

• third parties

• political center

A dynamic speaker organizes a "Global Warming Party" and steals votes from the two major parties. Her party would be considered a(n) _____________.

• third party

• major party

• threat to win the election

• waste of time

Select the TWO major parties in the United States.

• Independents

• Republicans

• Third Parties

• Democrats

Which item would most likely appear on a platform for a party in favor of educational spending?

• funding roads and bridges

• funding the military

• building more schools

• cutting taxes

Which political party controls both the executive branch and the Senate of the U.S. legislative branch?

• democrats

• independents

• republicans

• neither party has control