Question 1

Discuss the factors that determine how those who vote decide for whom to vote.

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Question 2

Discuss what it means to say that Donald Trump's campaign for president rode a populist wave of white working-class anger to the Republican Party's presidential nomination.

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Question 3

Discuss to what extent Donald Trump's campaign for and success in winning the White House supports the contention that voters are paying less attention to candidates' personal traits and qualities than in previous elections.

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Question 4

Even though many voters saw the presidential election of 2016 as having to choose between "the lesser of two evils," do you believe that citizens generally still want some sense that the president's character and capabilities will promote his or her success in the job? Why or why not?

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Question 5

Discuss to what extent you believe that most elected political leaders are driven to run for office and then to run for higher office by their own ambitions.

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Question 6

Discuss why an experienced challenger-one who has held elective public office before and is trying to move up-is four times more likely than an inexperienced candidate to beat an incumbent member of Congress.

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Question 7

Discuss why resources from the national level are critical to most congressional campaigns.

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Question 8

Discuss what it means to say that members of the U.S. Congress are at the juncture of local and national politics.

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Question 9

Discuss why an open race for the presidency, in which no incumbent president or vice president is in the field, is catnip to politicians of both parties.

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Question 10

Discuss how Trump -- who thought the rules of traditional campaigning did not apply to him - was able to ignore those rules, and yet win the presidency.

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Question 11

With regard to efforts to eliminate electoral fraud, discuss the positive and negative implications on voter turnout of laws that require voters to present government issued photo IDs to election officials before voting.

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Quiz 7: Democracys Moment: Voting, Campaigns, and Elections