Political Parties and Voting

A ____ party is an association of voters with broad common interests who want to elect candidates that share those interests.

• minor

• popular

• political

• college

Political Party affiliation is often a result of

• Self Interest

• History

• Economics

• Incentives

While voters can choose between two major parties they can also vote

• for minor parties

• for split tickets

• for independents

• all of these

A platform is

• the official positions of a party on a number of issues

• is set in stone and never changes

• made of wood and steel

• is a real structure

A polling place is where all voters in a ________ go to cast their votes

• ward

• precinct

• district

• county

A split ticket means

• you are undecided who to vote for

• you voted for candidates from one party

• you voted for candidates from two or more parties

• you got pulled over for breaking more than one traffic law

A _________ ballot allows you to request a ballot in advance to mail in.

• apathy

• absentee

• plural

• split

Watchdog refers to the media role of

• barking at strangers.

• alerting people of dangers.

• being unfriendly to outsiders

• exposing government misconduct.

Left, Left Leaning, Center, Right Leaning and Right are examples of

• speaker settings

• media bias

• split tickets

• straight tickets

Often the most cost effective elections use _______ instead of majority

• electoral colleges

• plurality

• primaries

• general elections