Parties, Voting, & Elections

What is voting "straight party ticket"

• Voting straight party ticket is the practice of voting for all candidates from one political party.
• Voting based on individual issues rather than party affiliation
• Voting for a single candidate regardless of party
• Voting for candidates from multiple parties

What is "hard money" in a political campaign?

• Hard money is regulated political donations subject to contribution limits.
• Hard money refers to unregulated donations without limits.
• Hard money is funding that is only available to large corporations.
• Hard money is a type of currency used in international trade.

Which of these statements concerning political candidates is true?

• Due to the large amount of information on the Internet, a candidate’s qualifications have become more important while the importance of image has decreased.

• During the past 100 years, there has been little change in the importance of either a candidate’s image or qualifications.

• Due to the media, the importance of a candidate’s image has increased in recent years.

• The importance of a candidate’s image has decreased due to greater candidate exposure. in the media.

Because of challenges in registering to vote, one idea to increase turnout is to

• have a national voter registration system.

• require all citizens to have a voter ID card.

• require all citizens to register to vote.

• make voter registration a privilege rather than a requirement.

Requiring a literacy test before allowing a person to vote was discriminatory because

• it meant that voters had to own property.

• the requirement was not applied equally to all people.

• 
  the test was given only to women.

• 
  it violated the Twenty-sixth Amendment.

The Twenty-sixth Amendment greatly increased the number of Americans eligible to vote by

• eliminating discriminatory voting laws.

• passing grandfather clauses.

• lowering the voting age to 18.

• 
  requiring voters to pass a literacy test.

A farmer is most likely to be concerned with issues such as crop subsidies because

• 
  crop subsidies are not controversial.

• 
  the issue is subject to a referendum.

• farmers usually vote a straight party ticket.

• this issue directly affects the farmer.

Requiring a photo ID has been shown to most heavily reduce voting among which group(s)?

• poor and minorities

• Republicans

• the middle and working class

• 
  the wealthy

What propaganda technique is a candidate using if she says people should support her because the vast majority of people think she is the best candidate?

• 
  appeal to authority

• 
  appeal to fear

• bandwagon

• glittering generality

People who support regulation to limit campaign spending believe that this will

• 
  encourage legislative referendums.

• reduce the number of candidates.

• reduce corruption.

• support free speech.