11.2 - Nominations

For all state-wide elections, what kind of primary does CA use today?

• Closed Primary

• Blanket Primary

• Open Primary

• Top Two Candidates Open Primary

Match the following terms with their defintion:

• Nonpartisan Elections

• Regularly scheduled elections at which the final selection is made for officeholders

• Platform

• Usually for school boards and municipal offices and no party labels are identified

• General Elections

• Not a fan of the caucus system and did away with it

• Nomination

• The plan and agenda, hopes/expectations of the party

• Andrew Jackson

• The naming of those who will seek office

Match the following kind of primary with its description:

• Open Primary

• Crossover primary, any qualified voter can vote

• Runoff Primary

• Every person gets the same ballot and vote on the same candidates, regardless of party

• Blanket

• If no one wins a majority, they run the top 2 vote getters a few weeks later

• Closed orimaryt

• A nominating election one in which only declared party members can vote

• Direct Primary

• Intraparty election, held first to pick the candidate for the general election

Match the following description with the nominating device

• Caucus

• Group of like-minded people who meet to select candidate for elections

• Convention

• What is used today and because it is less divisive

• Primary

• Party's members meet in local caucus to pick local candidates and elect delegates to represent at national meetings

Match the following criticism with the correct form of nominating one for public office

• Convention

• Voter turnout is low and costs are high

• Caucus

• For the elite and less for the common man

• Primary

• Party bosses manipulated the process, like in Cook County, Illinois

True or False: The presidential primary is the only way we elect a president and is not part of a bigger process?

• True

• False

What is the oldest form of the nomination process in running for elected office?

• Self-announcement

• Runoff primary

• Direct primary

• General election

True or False: The self-announcement for office because one lost the regular party nomination has happened a few times in the history of the US? But, none of them have won office.

• True

• False

Which state adopted the first blanket party law?

• California

• Alaska

• Hawaii

• Washington

This kind of nominating process can mostly be found at the local level of politics?

• Petition

• Write-in

• Mob rule

• Primary