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| Higher income people who live in “wealthy areas,” such as we find on the west coast, are slightly more likely to vote ________ than higher income people who live in the southeast. |
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| The electors are apportioned roughly according to states' populations, as measured by the census, but with a small but deliberate bias in favor of .... |
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| Wealthy people, on average, are most likely to vote |
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| True or false: When mapping voter trends, political scientists in the U.S. have always designated red as standing for Republican and blue as standing for Democratic. |
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| One difference between the voting patterns of the average wealthy American in California and the average wealthy American in the southeast United States, is that |
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| wealthy Californians tend to be more liberal, particularly on social issues |
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| How many electoral college votes does it take to win a presidential election? |
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| “Purple” states are states .... |
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| wherein, at the county level, the numbers of Republican and Democratic voters are relatively close to evenly split |
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| Historically, realignments occur |
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when new issues combine with economic or political crises to mobilize new voters and persuade large numbers of voters to reexamine their traditional partisan loyalties. |
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| Third-party candidates are better off under what system of election? |
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| proportional representation |
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| The first party system was characterized by conflict between the ______ and the ______.The first party system was characterized by conflict between the ______ and the ______. |
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| Federalists; Jeffersonian Republicans |
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| Most African Americans identify themselves as |
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| The term turnout describes the number of people who |
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| A key area in which party organizations normally play an important role is: |
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| As organizations, political parties in California are, in general: |
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| California’s blanket primary was |
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| declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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| Republican voters are ___________ than Democrats. |
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| The ______ fought successfully to lessen the role of parties in the California political process. |
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