· Federal Government: Electing a President: The Process (Full Video)
· 1.The founding fathers set up a way by which voters cast votes for special electors who are pledged to cast their ballots based on how many people in their state voted. This system is called _____.
o A) legislative review
o B) executive privilege
o C) the judicial process
o D) the Electoral College
· 2.In the 2000 Presidential Election, George W. Bush won the presidency with the electoral (or majority of states') votes, even though Al Gore _____.
o A) slipped in the polls
o B) won the popular vote
o C) won every states' elections
o D) lost most of the states' delegates
· 3.All presidential candidates today must have the backing of one of the two major political parties in order to have a successful run for office.
o A) true
o B) false
· 4.Which of the following statements about party conventions and party bosses is true?
o A) In the "party boss" days, delegates had little real power.
o B) Party bosses once nominated someone who didn't want to be nominated.
o C) Party bosses met and decided that Warren Harding should run for president.
o D) all of the above
· 5.During primary elections voters have the chance to choose who can be the candidate to run for their _____.
o A) party
o B) platform
o C) delegate
o D) legislation
· 6.Campaigning has changed a lot since President Abraham Lincoln stayed home while others campaigned for him. Since the mid-1950s, all of the following are true about candidates, EXCEPT _____.
o A) they went on "whistle stop" campaigns to give speeches along railroad towns
o B) radio made it possible for them to reach millions of listeners across country
o C) televisions forever changed American politics with television campaign ads
o D) they avoided using new ways to reach voters such as telephone calls, television ads, and Internet sites
· 7.Historians believe that Richard Nixon might have won the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy if Nixon had NOT _____.
o A) gone to China to thaw Cold War tensions
o B) traveled the campaign trail without his wife
o C) made his famous “Checkers” speech in 1952
o D) participated in the first televised presidential debates
· 8.Some people think that by focusing on visual images and how telegenic and strong a candidate appears, television campaign ads trivialize the political process.
o A) true
o B) false
· 9.Unlike early times in American history when only white men could vote, laws have been passed giving voting privileges to _____.
o A) women
o B) African-Americans
o C) immigrants
o D) both A and B