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WorksheetsUS GOV UNIT 2 REVIEW
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
What does the Mass Media target?
The Largest Audience
The smallest audience
Small towns
The White House
How has the internet impacted politics?
The public has access to more information
It hasnt
Politics have impacted the internet
Golf is more relevent
T or F: Voter turnout is higher in the general election than in the primaries IS a true statement concerning voter turnout
True
False
Buckley v. Valeo was a Supreme Court Case that determined what?
Candidates are allowed to insight riots
Candidates cant use propaganda
no limits could be placed on the amount of his or her own money a candidate spends in an election
Taco Tuesday is now everyday
Do Democrats and Republicans receive competition from third parties?
Yes
No
What is The Federal Election Commission?
A small office that monitors voter fraud
the bureaucratic agency in charge of monitoring campaign activity.
A convention about the constitution
A front organization
Midterm Elections elect how much of the senators?
All of them
Three Tenths
Nine Eighths
One third
T or F: The winner of a popular vote can still fail to be elected is a problem presented by the Electoral College.
False
True
T or F: 35 percent of Americans rarely or never vote
True
False
What is the Electoral Collage responsible for?
Monitoring voter fraud
Committing Voter Fraud
electing the president of the United States
Eating Hamburgers
What is front-loading?
A machine that loads dump trucks
The ability to make balloon animals
The urge to commit voter fraud
the tendency of states to choose an early date on the nomination calendar
Who does the current system for electing members to Congress favor?
Partisans
Third-Parties
Democrats
Republicans
What is Initiative?
Finding the current president guilty of something and kicking him out
Becoming President by cheating
Being first
the name of the process by which citizens propose legislation or constitutional amendments, through petition followed by popular vote
Married voters today are most likely to identify as what?
Anarchists
Democrat
Republican
Predators
Super Delegates are used by who more than others?
Green Party
Republicans
Democrats
The president
minor parties facilitate what?
democracy in the United States by bringing more citizens into the political process with issue awareness
Evolution
Anarchy
Revolutionary wars
black, female, from the Northeast is a voter profiles that most strongly suggests that an individual will identify with what party?
No party
Democratic
Green
Republican
What is one of the various ways in which parties contribute to democratic governance?
running candidates
Firing Lobbyists
Becoming President
Giving out free food
The margin of error is?
How polls remain relevant
a measure of the accuracy of a public opinion poll.
The number of fraudulent votes
The measure of inaccuracy in a poll
What are Straw Polls?
Figuring out how Straws feel about being inside turtles noses
The way new foods are approved for human consumption
Scientific Surveys to gauge new laws
Unscientific surveys used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues
In terms of politics, what is "Realignment"?
Changing sides
the requirement that members of a party vote together
Believing in a different god
Changing your gender
T or F: Women now represents a majority of the electorate because they are a majority of the population
False
True
