Responsibilities of the precinct chair include all except which of the following?
a. Contacting known and potential party members
b. Arranging the precinct convention
c. Serving as a member of the county executive committee
d. Organizing party activities in the neighborhood
e. Serving as a delegate to the county or senatorial district convention
E
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The term coalitional presidentialism refers to a. a strategy whereby the Brazilian president appoints seats in his/her cabinet to leaders of other parties in order to maintain a majority alliance in congress. b. the notion, not upheld in Brazil, that for parties to be successful at the national level in presidential systems, they must build a coalition between different societal interests
c. the idea that Brazilian presidents represent a coalition of different factions within his/her party. d. the fact that Brazil is a multiparty democracy. e. the idea that the Brazilian president must appeal to a coalition of different societal interests in order to be successful.
Observers often list the first stage of a presidential election as the pre-nomination campaign that occurs shortly after a presidential election is concluded. What occurs during this phase?
a. The candidates for the next presidential election must be selected so that they have the full four years to campaign. b. Political parties hold primary elections to determine who they can accept as possible candidates. c. The president appoints committees from each party to begin searching for his competitors in the next election. d. Possible candidates begin to test the waters, raise money, attract media attention, and try to sway support of influential party members. e. The political parties hold their national conventions to plot the campaign for the next four years.
While the United States has had several minor parties, only the two major parties have much of a chance to win elections. What features of the U.S. political system contribute to the dominance of two parties?
a. multimember districts and a proportional voting system b. single-member districts and a nonpartisan blanket primary system c. multimember districts and a winner-take-all voting system d. single-member districts and a winner-take-all voting system