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Obstacles to third party candidate success on the national level of politics include all of the following except

• state regulations on ballot access are challenging

• the complete inability to receive mass media coverage

• raising enough campaign funding is particularly difficult

• federal campaign finance laws set difficult conditions

Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding American political parties?

• The national party committee often contends with the free rider problem

• Political parties nominate candidate for government office

• The national chairperson uses direct lobbying strategies to sway candidates to support an issue

• The primary goal of a political party is to influence policymaking

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which had lifted them to unjust dominion. Towards the perservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts."   - George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

 

Someone arguing that Washington's message is coming true would point to which of the following events in American political history?

• The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold Act)

• The creation of the Federal Election Commission

• The Federal Election Campaign Act

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

Political Action Committees (PACs) allow unions and corporations to perform which of the following actions?

• Coordinate political activities not affiliated with a campaign

• Have a voice in government

• Sit down together to work out their differences

• Run their members for political office

The concept of critical elections is most closely associated with

• the electoral college process

• party realignment

• economic recession

• party realignment

In the landmark Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. FEC (2010), the holding in the case

• stated that political spending by corporations, associations, and labor unions is a form of free speech

• struck down the part of the BCRA that limited activities of PACs

• struck down the part of the Voting Rights Act that allowed the federal government to hold voter registration drives

• determined that congressional districts may not be gerrymandered

Which legislation aimed to regulate campaign finance by limiting individual contributions, creating public funding for presidential elections, and establishing disclosure requirements?

• McCain-Feingold Act

• Federal Elections Campaign Act

• Bipartisan Campaign-finance Reform Act

• Citizens United Act

The Bipartisan Campaign-finance Reform Act

• increased the individual campaign contribution limit to $2,000

• banned corporate campaign contributions

• banned soft money

• raised soft money limits to national political parties

Critics of the winner-take-all aspect of the Electoral College are most likely to make which of the following arguments?

• A state's presidential election results rarely mirror a state's congressional election results

• The winner-take-all system of the Electoral College drives presidential candidates to focus on winning states that are considered to be part of their party base

• The winner-take-all system of the Electoral College undermines the rights of states

• The winner-take-all system of the Electoral College encourages presidential candidates to focus their time and efforts disproportionately on battleground states with larger populations

Which of the following committees addresses a bill when the House and Senate both passes different versions of the same bill?

• A select committee

• A joint committee

• A conference committee

• A standing committee