Chapter 8 Electronic Test (True and False)
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With the benefit of your textbook, supply the correct answer for each of the following questions in the space provided, then forward electronically. Insert a T for True, and F for False.
1. In 1996, more people in America called themselves Democrats than identified with any other group-Republicans or independents.
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2. A democracy provides orderly institutional arrangements for the transfer of power.
3. American political parties have very little resiliency and seldom can withstand the impact of national landslides.
4. In the United States, the single-member district system prevails in federal elections.
5. Unlike the situation in many Western European nations, ideological differences among Americans normally have not been strong enough to produce a broad range of established minor parties.
6. The strengthening of party loyalties among many voters has been one of the most visible features of American politics in recent years.
7. Since 1932, in most presidential elections, the Democratic Party has, in spirit, been the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
8. In 1968, the 46 electoral votes of third-party candidate George Wallace were enough to deadlock the presidential election.
9. American political parties are highly centralized and tightly organized.
10. The urban machines drew their power from the vast waves of immigrants to America's cities.
11. It is the traditional privilege of the party's national committee to select the vice-presidential nominee.
12. Since 1960, no candidate for a major-party presidential nomination has opened up a clear lead before his or her party's national convention, and the convention has had to select the party's presidential nominee from a group of several serious contenders.
13. After analyzing 1,795 platform pledges over a ten-year period (1968-1978), Gerald M. Pomper concluded that only about one-fifth of these promises were fulfilled.
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Chief Justice Richard Barajas Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics Cathedral High School, El Paso, Texas Last updated: July 12, 2000
