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| show | more decentralized
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| In most states, candidates for office are chosen by | show 🗑
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| show | party leaders
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| What role do political parties play in the lives of most Americans? | show 🗑
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| The Founders saw political parties as | show 🗑
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| The first organized political party in American history was | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| Some were so distraught by the election of Thomas Jefferson that they | show 🗑
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| The Federalist Party could not compete effectively in national elections because | show 🗑
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| show | from the bottom up
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| Prior to 1824, presidential candidates were nominated by | show 🗑
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| National party conventions were developed as a reform of | show 🗑
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| show | progressives
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| Procedures such as the initiative and the referendum arose as efforts to give | show 🗑
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| show | 5
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| show | 1865, 1896, and 1932.
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| show | slavery and economics
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| The elections of Ronald Reagan could not have represented a realignment because | show 🗑
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| show | south
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| Ticket-splitting creates | show 🗑
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| show | four
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| Between the national conventions party affairs are managed by a ___________ made up of delegates from each state and territory. | show 🗑
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| show | congressional campaign committee
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| show | national chairman
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| Beginning in the 1960s, the ________ became more bureaucratized, while the ___________became more factionalized. | show 🗑
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| The formula for the selection of delegates to the Republican national convention generally stresses the importance of ... | show 🗑
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| The term superdelegate refers to | show 🗑
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| In 2004, over 40 percent of the delegates to the conventions of both parties | show 🗑
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| show | a high degree of leadership control over member activity
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| The________________made it illegal for federal civil service employees to take an active part in political campaigns. | show 🗑
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| show | factionalized
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| Party organizations based on their members' enjoyment of the sociability of politics are referred to as | show 🗑
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| show | personal following
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| The most dramatic example of the winner-take-all principle in the U.S. electoral system is the | show 🗑
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| No third party is likely to win the presidency anytime soon because | show 🗑
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| show | poverty, the environment, and health care
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| Americans tend to see the Republicans as better at handling such issues as | show 🗑
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| The most recent independent candidate for president who was able to get on the ballot in every state was | show 🗑
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| Eugene Debs of the Socialist Party won ____ percent of the vote in the presidential election of 1912 | show 🗑
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| George Wallace's American Independent Party was an example of a(n) | show 🗑
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| National convention delegates, compared to their respective party members, tend to be | show 🗑
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| A meeting of party followers at which convention delegates are picked is known as a | show 🗑
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| A study of political ads broadcast from 1999 to 2004 found that the largest number emphasized | show 🗑
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| show | fundraising
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| The elections that produce the largest voter turnout are the | show 🗑
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| The first goal of an individual planning to run for office is to | show 🗑
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| show | competence
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| show | 90
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| When districts are so unequal that the votes of citizens are significantly diluted, they are | show 🗑
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| show | gerrymandered
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| In 1911, Congress decided that the House had become large enough and voted to fix its size at | show 🗑
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| show | every 10 years
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| show | florida
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| show | sophomore surge
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| Most newly elected members of the House can expect an increase of _________ percent more votes when they run for reelection. | show 🗑
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| Who said, “All politics is local"? | show 🗑
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| show | play to the ideology of political activists
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| To win the presidential nomination, as opposed to the general election, candidates generally present themselves as | show 🗑
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| show | congress
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| Members of the House and Senate can say or write anything they like, without fear of being sued or prosecuted, so long as what they say is | show 🗑
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| A ___________issue is one in which the rival candidates have opposing views on a question that also divides the voters. | show 🗑
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| _______issues have increased in importance in campaigns in recent years. | show 🗑
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| show | broadcasting
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| show | closed
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| show | the risk of verbal slips
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| show | rely on stock speeches
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| An advantage of direct-mail appeals is that they | show 🗑
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| Funding of congressional elections comes from | show 🗑
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| show | individual donation
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| show | political parties
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| History suggests that______percent of the presidential vote will go to the candidates of the two main parties. | show 🗑
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| show | their use of free mailing, or franks
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| Many scholars argue that the foremost factor in determining how people vote is | show 🗑
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| show | party identification
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| Which party tends to be more loyal to its candidate in presidential elections? | show 🗑
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| show | prospective voting
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| The text suggests that political junkies are more likely to engage in ________voting. | show 🗑
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| show | retrospective
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| The Democrats appear to have lost their once-strong hold on which groups? | show 🗑
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| show | difficult
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