Mastery Check CE 5A and CE 5B Retake

The image shown demonstrates what role of the political parties during the election process in action?

• Recruit and nominate candidates for office.

• Educate the electorate about campaign issues.

• Monitor the actions of officeholders.

• Determining a particular candidate that the media should support.

What important role do third parties play in our two-party political system?

• Often win the elections in which they participate.

• Identify the major party candidate the voters should support.

• Introduce new ideas on a particular issue that can be adopted into a major party platform.

• Raise large sums of money in support of the other party candidates.

What would someone find within the party platform of the Republican Party?

• A listing of officials running for office for the Republican Party.

• The views the party has on important issues during a campaign.

• Means of donating money to support the candidates running for office.

• Ways in which the Republican Party is similar to the Democratic Party.

Candidates typically target individuals with these political views as they can be difference makers in who wins the election.

• Liberal

• Conservative

• Moderate

• Libertarian

The most important role played by political parties in the election process is?

• Identifying to the media what candidates they should support.

• Helping to get candidates they support with views similar to their platform elected to office.

• Educating the electorate about the important issues of the campaign.

• Monitoring what actions the candidate for the other party is performing.

The role of a poster such as the one shown during an election is to?

• Educate the voter about campaign issues.

• Recruit and nominate candidates for office.

• Show support for the candidate of the other political party.

• Monitor the actions of officeholders.

Select the group that you would expect to be primarily focused on one issue during their campaign.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are similar in all of the following ways EXCEPT

• They have organized and hold chapters at the local, state, and national levels.

• They influence public policy such as new laws with their views.

• They attempt to appeal to the political center through their ideas.

• They hold similar views on important issues during a campaign.

Which of the following is NOT a reason why political parties exist?

• to make it easier for voters to form groups that vote in certain ways

• to facilitate policy making by allowing politicians with similar views to work together

• to deal with the problem of politicians' ambition by controlling their self-interest

• to divide the country into two large groups to simplify elections

Why might a voter choose a candidate from a political party they usually do not support?

• Because the candidate's views on specific issues align more closely with their own

• Because they are required to vote for candidates from multiple parties

• Because political parties do not matter in elections

• Because they made a mistake on their ballot