AP Elections (2024)

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When party members get together in a location to discuss party candidates for the presidency before voting is describing a(n)

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caucus.

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An argument supporting the claim the Electoral College was undemocratic would be: smaller state are at an advantage by guaranteeing 2 electoral votes representing their Senators.

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smaller states are at an advantage by guaranteeing 2 electoral votes representing their Senators.

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The main reason why the Electoral College has not been abolished is

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lack of support for a constitutional amendment.

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The winner take all feature of the Electoral College

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all of these are true about the Electoral College

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Superdelegates

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are current and former party officials who help select the president.

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The main difference between how Republicans nominate their presidential candidate compared to Democrats would be

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Democrats have banned winner take all and allow for superdelegates.

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This allows only party members to participate in the narrowing down of a party's field of candidates

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both closed primary and a caucus.

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When Truman (1948) and Nixon (1968) won only pluralities of the popular vote and not the majority, what happened?

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They took office after receiving less than 50% of the popular votes cast.

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If we switched to the direct election of the president

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each vote would count equally in determining who won the election.

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Which one most closely relates to the Citizens United (2010) decision? Options: A labor union spending millions to run negative ads about a candidate., A member of Congress establishing a PAC to gain influence in Congress., A state senator receiving large cash donations from a corporate executive in exchange for political favors., A lobbyist writing the language of a bill later introduced to Congress.

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A labor union spending millions to run negative ads about a candidate.