Chapter_10_Elections_and_Campaigns

Chapter_10_Elections_and_Campaigns

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

1. Originally, presidential candidates were chosen by
4. congressional
5. state

ANSWER:                           c

REFERENCES:                   Presidential Elections: Winning the Nomination

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.10.1 – LO10.1

2. After party caucuses when national nominating conventions dominated, the real power, in selecting presidential nominees, was wielded by
3. the voters in primary
4. local party
5. political
6. nonpartisan groups that sought to pick the best
7. the voters in caucus

ANSWER:                           b

REFERENCES:                   Presidential Elections: Winning the Nomination

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.10.1 – LO10.1

3. When Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1968, he did so
4. without spending money on
5. with considerable assistance from Republican
6. without raising
7. in spite of opposition from party
8. without competing in a single state

ANSWER:                           e

REFERENCES:                   Presidential Elections: Winning the Nomination

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.10.1 – LO10.1

4. By the time the 2012 presidential election was completed, the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign, together with a dozen other contenders for the presidency, had raised and spent approximately
5. $600
6. $4
7. $1.3
8. $800
9. $500

ANSWER:                           c

REFERENCES:                   Presidential Elections: Winning the Nomination

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.10.1 – LO10.1

5. Most of the money that individual candidates spend during the course of a campaign is directed toward
6. media-related
7. campaign staff and
8. travel-related
9. campaign
10. the national

ANSWER:                           a

REFERENCES:                   Presidential Elections: Winning the Nomination

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  AGIP.WILS.17.10.1 – LO10.1