Deck 5: Political Attitudes and Participation: Venting and Voting

Question 1

Public opinion polls ______ conducted on state-level matters.

A) are often
B) are never
C) cannot be
D) are rarely

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Democratic candidates have struggled during recent ______ elections.

A) midterm
B) northern
C) presidential
D) competitive

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Voting for all of one party's nominees on a ticket is known as ______.

A) straight-ticket voting
B) office group voting
C) Indiana ballot voting
D) column voting

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Turnout runs less than 20 percent for ______ elections.

A) federal
B) presidential
C) state
D) municipal

Question 5

Redistricting generally follows ______.

A) a presidential election
B) a midterm election
C) the decennial census
D) the annual census

Question 6

Which of the following tends to decrease voter turnout?

A) competitive elections
B) higher levels of education
C) moralistic culture
D) strict ID laws

Question 7

If a candidate does not win more than 50 percent of the votes but still has more votes than any other candidate, he or she has achieved a ______.

A) runoff
B) plurality
C) paradox
D) midterm

Question 8

Washington and California use a similar primary system in which the top ______ vote getters proceed to the general election.

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five

Question 9

Average state opinion ______ be reflected in state-level policy decisions.

A) does not tend to
B) will someday
C) does tend to be
D) will never be

Question 10

Women received the right to vote with the ratification of the ______.

A) Voting Rights Act
B) Twenty-Fourth Amendment
C) Equal Rights Amendment
D) Nineteenth Amendment

Question 11

Which of the following positions is generally appointed?

A) state treasurer
B) secretary of state
C) attorney general
D) state superintendent of education

Question 12

In recent elections, voters have tended to prefer candidates who ______.

A) adhere to the party line
B) reach over the aisle
C) cross party lines to achieve compromise
D) eschew negative advertising

Question 13

A way for voters to oust an incumbent elected official before the next election is called a(n) ______.

A) impeachment
B) recall
C) referendum
D) censure

Question 14

The traditional model of public hearings is ______.

A) becoming more popular
B) nonexistent
C) becoming less popular
D) unchanged from historical norms

Question 15

The most famous and influential modern ballot initiative dealt with which issue?

A) school funding (Proposition 27)
B) legalization of marijuana (Proposition 6)
C) property tax rates (Proposition 13)
D) term limits (Proposition 99)

Question 16

Who said, "Unless mass views have some place in the shaping of policy, all the talk about democracy is nonsense"?

A) Norman Mailer
B) John F. Kennedy
C) The Marquis de Sade
D) V. O. Key

Question 17

Which of the following issues is the primary focus for the Tea Party movement?

A) the war in Iraq
B) the size of the federal government
C) free trade
D) space exploration

Question 18

The minimum Electoral College delegation is ______.

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Question 19

In ______ states, there are more daily newspapers paying attention to policy and educational matters than in individualistic states.

A) traditionalistic
B) pluralistic
C) libertarian
D) moralistic

Question 20

Which of the following terms refers to the drawing of new boundaries for congressional and state legislative districts?

A) redistricting
B) gerrymandering
C) polarization
D) apportionment

Question 21

For the most part, ______ elections are nonpartisan.

A) federal
B) state
C) legislative
D) local

Question 22

Among the concerns with ranked-choice voting, some worry that it can lead to ______.

A) an overall decline in voter participation
B) confusion with the ballot format
C) double counting of votes
D) ballot stuffing

Question 23

In ______, the legislature or other government agencies have the power of legislative referendum.

A) most states
B) fewer than half of the states
C) no states
D) all states

Question 24

The Australian ballot lists candidates' names, followed by their party designation, under the title of the office they are seeking.

Question 25

A ______ is the highest number of votes garnered by a candidate who fails to reach an outright majority of the votes.

A) majority
B) plurality
C) tie
D) minority

Question 26

Urban voters tend to support ______ candidates for office.

A) democratic
B) independent
C) republican
D) libertarian

Question 27

______ was the first state to enact automatic voter registration in 2015.

A) Washington
B) California
C) Oregon
D) Colorado

Question 28

The Supreme Court upheld Ohio's voter ______ .

A) purging system, which drops voters after eight years of an individual's electoral inactivity
B) registration system, which automatically registers voters when they change their address
C) purging system, which drops voters after four years of an individual's electoral inactivity
D) registration system, which automatically registers voters when they receive an Ohio driver's license

Question 29

AVR stands for ______.

A) Automatic Voting Regulations
B) Autonomous Voting Requirement
C) Automated Vehicle Registration
D) Automatic Voter Registration

Question 30

When candidates do not run under a party label, the election is considered ______.

A) multiparty
B) unitarian
C) generic
D) nonpartisan

Question 31

The popular initiative process became popular during the ______.

A) turn of the twenty-first century
B) turn of the twentieth century
C) antebellum period
D) mid-twentieth century

Question 32

One-party states rarely have ______ elections.

A) partisan
B) popular
C) competitive
D) boring

Question 33

A University of Wisconsin survey found that 11 percent of non-voting citizens around Milwaukee were deterred by ______.

A) the political discourse and vitriol
B) the state's voter ID laws
C) the weather
D) the change in voting locations

Question 34

According to 2017 Gallup polls, the plurality of Americans identified themselves as _____.

A) Democrat
B) Green Party
C) Independent
D) Republican

Question 35

______ voter turnout in the United States is lagging behind population growth.

A) White
B) Hispanic
C) Asian
D) Black

Question 36

The Republicans became a true national party ______.

A) after the 1900s
B) after the Revolutionary War
C) after the 1950s
D) 100 years following the Civil War

Question 37

A ballot printed by a state that allows voters to pick and choose among different candidates and party preferences in private is referred to as a(n)______ ballot.

A) Austrian
B) Australian
C) Augmented
D) Secretive

Question 38

The number of ballot initiatives has ______ since the 1970s.

A) decreased
B) increased
C) stayed the same
D) bottomed out

Question 39

There is little variation across states in terms of electoral rules.

Question 40

The Tea Party movement began in ______.

A) 1984
B) 1992
C) 2009
D) 2013

Question 41

The Supreme Court upheld state laws requiring that voters produce a government-approved photo ID at the polls.

Question 42

Republicans tend to garner more support from urban areas.

Question 43

All states use automated voter registration.

Question 44

What have states done in the past to restrict voter access to the ballot?

Question 45

There are federal regulations that require all states to have the same voter registration laws.

Question 46

What is the relationship between elections and political culture?

Question 47

What are the pros and cons of direct democracy?

Question 48

States are converging in their approaches to ensuring the right to vote.

Question 49

Many cases of voter fraud have been discovered in the United States.

Question 50

Discuss the progression of protests over the last decade and their relation to public opinion.

Question 51

Approximately 4 percent of the votes are suspected to be fraudulent in the state of Ohio.

Question 52

Briefly discuss the current state of the direct democracy process.

Question 53

Voters are split not only by race but increasingly also by place.