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Voting

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The Electoral College has 538
a)
Electors
b)
Janitors 
c)
Custodians 
d)
Delegates
2.
There are 3 Electors from the District of Columbia to the 
a)
Supreme Court
b)
Legislature
c)
Electoral College
d)
Senate
3.
The minimum number of electors needed to become president is 
a)
271
b)
270
c)
538
d)
435
4.
100 Electors are figured from the number of  ---
a)
Representatives to the House
b)
Senators
c)
the 3 electors from the 23rd Amendment
d)
House of Representatives 
5.
435 are added to the total number of electors because that is the number of ---
a)
House Representatives 
b)
Senators
c)
of 3 from the District of Columbia 
d)
The House of Representatives 
6.
Harm-Caring, Fairness, Authority, Loyalty, and Sanctity
a)
Moral dimension on the political ideology test of Haidt
b)
fantasies
c)
moral dimensions in social psychology
d)
developmental strangeness
7.
He thought that the dispersion of power among the states under the Constitution would be the greatest safegurad against faction. 
a)
George Washington
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
James Monroe
d)
James Madison
8.
The oldest form of nominating was --- and it is still with us today.
a)
caucus 
b)
caucus and conventions
c)
caucus, primary elections and convention
d)
the self announcement in the newspaper.
9.
The 23rd Amendment added 
a)
the 3 delegates from the District of Columbia
b)
House of Representatives 
c)
Senators
d)
Representatives from the House 
10.
After caucus the next is: 
a)
self announcement
b)
caucus and convention
11.
After self-announcement in the newspaper the oldest form of presidential nomination is ---
a)
caucus and convention
b)
caucus
c)
caucus, convention, and primary
12.
What we have today for presidential nomination is
a)
convention
b)
caucus, primary, and convention
c)
caucus
13.
In the Electoral College there are --- total electors
a)
538
b)
435
c)
100
d)
3
14.
Republican test as --- than Democrats.
a)
more intelligent
b)
less intelligent
15.
On the moral dimension of Harm-Caring --- score a little higher than ---.
a)
Liberals, Conservatives
b)
Conservatives, Liberals
16.
States cannot have fewer than 3 Electors
a)
true dat
b)
false dat
c)
by brain hurts
d)
oh yeah, dat's right, but the minimum is 6
17.
Entrepreneurs, church goers, married people with children give 
a)
used clothes to chimpanzees 
b)
less money to charity
c)
significantly more of their of their own money to charity
18.
Entrepreneurs vote
a)
Democrat
b)
Republican 
19.
Well-informed voters  
a)
are against government intervention in the economy
b)
favor government intervention in the economy
20.
Uninformed voters tend to support 
a)
government intervention and socialism
b)
the Red Socks
21.
It takes --- Electoral Votes to become president of the United States of America. 
a)
435
b)
268
c)
270
d)
103
22.
Used taxpayer money to deliver projects to the western states that delivered worker votes for the Democrats.
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
George H W Bush
c)
George W Bush hulu
George W Bush
d)
Bill Clinton
23.
Who did Bill Clinton win the presidency with 42% of the vote. 
a)
Ross Perot took votes away from George HW Bush 
b)
Howard Taft and Theodore Rooseveltsplit the Republican vote. 
24.
The closest electoral college vote was the election of 
a)
George W Bush
b)
George H.W. Bush
25.
Woodrow Wilson won the presidency with 41% of the vote because:
a)
Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft split the Republican vote 
b)
Ross Perot took votes away from George HW Bush
26.
Republicans 
a)
give more of their own money to charity 
b)
demonstrate ignorance of economics 
27.
People who are ignorant of economics
a)
favor government intervention in the economy
b)
oppose government intervention in the economy 
28.
This is not one of the dimensions in John Haidt's moral dimensions of political ideology
a)
Harm-Caring
b)
Fairness, Authority
c)
Loyalty, Sancitiy
d)
violence 
29.
--- vote more consistently than ---
a)
women, men
b)
men, women
30.
--- vote more consistently than ---
a)
College education, less education
b)
Less education, college educated
31.
Republicans measure --- than than Democrats.
a)
more
b)
less
32.
--- vote more consistently than ---
a)
Younger people, older people
b)
Older people, younger people
33.
White Catholics
a)
Republic voters
b)
Slightly Republic voters 
c)
Democratic voters
d)
Slightly Democratic vote
34.
Non-white Catholics 
a)
Republican voters
b)
Slightly Republican voters
c)
Democratic voters
d)
Slightly Democratic voters
35.
Evangelical Christians  
a)
Republicans
b)
slightly Democratic
c)
Democrats
d)
slightly Republicans 
36.
Mainline Protestants
a)
slightly Democratic
b)
Democrats 
c)
slightly Republicans 
37.
News Media, journalists, entertainers, government unions 
a)
strong Republicans
b)
strong Democrats 
38.
Africans-Americans, trials lawyers, and university employees vote 
a)
Republican
b)
Democrat
39.
Entrepreneurs, people who go to church weekly, married people with children are skeptical of government, give more the charity and---
a)
vote Republican
b)
vote Democrat
40.
This is
a)
Capitol Hill
b)
the White House
c)
the Supreme Court building
d)
Pentagon
41.
This is
a)
the White House
b)
Capitol Hill
c)
Pentagon
d)
the Supreme Court Building
42.
This is
a)
the Supreme Court Building
b)
the Pentagon
c)
the White House
d)
Capitol Hill
43.
This is
a)
the FBI building
b)
Capitol Hill
c)
the White House
d)
the Pentagon
44.
Regardless of population or geographic size each state 
a)
gets three elector because of the number 3
b)
gets three electors because each state has two senators and on House Representative
c)
gets as many electors as they can affrod
d)
gets free turkeys on Thanksgiving
45.
This is a NOT a social contract theorist 
a)
Thomas Hobbs
b)
John Locke
c)
Woodrow Wilson
46.
The enforcement arm of the Democratic Party before the 1960 was
a)
the Ku Klux Klan
b)
the FBI
47.
The South became more Republican as it became less 
a)
Libertarian
b)
racist
48.
If a king rules with the authority of God, but through a bible that everyone can read.
a)
Medieval Divine RIght
b)
Absolutist Divine Right
c)
Unitary
d)
Confederation
49.
Centralized Authority with regional governments as administrative division of the centralized authority
a)
confederation
b)
monarchy
c)
federation
d)
unitary
50.
Almost all of the authority is decentralized 
a)
monarchy
b)
unitary
c)
confederation
d)
federation