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PSCI 1101 TEST 3 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS Caucus problems-worth it? - Answer-Hard to Boulder voters to caucus Explaining trumps success - Answer-1. personality and politics Winning southern states Non educated base Authoritarian stance Political party - Answer-Group that organizes ...

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PSCI 1101 TEST 3 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS

Caucus problems-worth it? - Answer-Hard to Boulder voters to caucus

Explaining trumps success - Answer-1. personality and politics
Winning southern states
Non educated base
Authoritarian stance

Political party - Answer-Group that organizes to:
1. Win elections
2. Determine policy
3. Run the government

Republicans - Answer-2012 data:
91.5 percent white support
Catholic support has grown a lot
So has evangelical

Democrats - Answer-2012 data:
93 percent AA support
69 percent hispanic support
75 percent asain support
39 percent white support
expanding hispanic vote
18-29: 60 percent Obama support
Single women: 67 percent

Puzzle of parties - Answer-Constitution says nothing about parties
Most people have a negative view of parties (Jefferson was not a fan)
However, we need them

Parties help candidates - Answer-A. Help candidates win
provide brand name and reputation
fundraising
electoral services (polls, training, mobilizing the vote)
(both dem and rep parties raised 1 billion each in 2008 elections)
B. Help politicians govern

, C. Help voters do their job (mobilization, choice)
Answer to puzzle: politicians created them

Why 2 parties? - Answer-Stay ideologically pure: lose
Move to the center: maybe win
Plurality= a win
Either join a party or lose (bottom line)
Don't waste votes on minor party, that has no chance of winning
1. Plurality system
2. Strategic voting
3. History and socialization
We have always had 2 parties, huge focus/media coverage of 2 parties
Shifts in public coalitions can happen in pivotal elections ex: Civil rights movement, big
event

Plurality elections - Answer-Winner takes all system/ Loser gets nothing
Result: 2 parties
1 national office with plurality voting: presidency

Proportional representation - Answer-Percentage of vote=percentage of representation
Result: more than 2 parties (minor parties can win influence)

Strategic voting - Answer-If 1st choice will most certainly lose, vote for 2nd favorite

Duverger's law - Answer-Plurality favors 2 party system, proportional favors multiparty
system

Realignment - Answer-Popular support and relative support of the parties shift (minority
moves to majority)

Dealignment - Answer-Decrease in number of republicans and democrats, increase in
the number of independents

Minority party - Answer-The political party has fewer members in the legislature than the
opposing party

Majority party - Answer-The political party has more members in the legislature than the
opposing party

Party identifier - Answer-Identify themselves as a supporter of a specific party

Party platform - Answer-Official party position on various issues
Not bound by this
Care more about winning bottom line
Ex: Case of Bobby Bright, democrat with republican views in Alabama

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