In general, the president's party __________ in off-year midterm elections.
A. gains votes
B. keeps the same number of votes
C. loses votes
D. gains or loses votes with no apparent pattern
E. gains or loses votes based on the fundamentals.
Answer: C
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Direct democracy has been most widely practiced in the:
A. East. B. South. C. West. D. Midwest.
Which of the following is NOT true regarding the similarities and differences between the judicial branch and the other branches of government?
a. The format of trial court decision making is formal and consistent across courts. b. Governors and legislators are able to consider a variety of points of view. c. Like all courts, trial courts are active decision makers. d. Judges make decisions on specific disputes and specific facts concerning law in specific cases, whereaslegislatures and governors make broad and general policy decisions.
The federal government sought to prevent the New York Times from publishing
A) accounts of Japanese Americans detained in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. B) the Pentagon Papers. C) secret grand jury findings on the Watergate scandal. D) reports of Reagan's arms-for-hostages dealings. E) videotapes of G. Gordon Liddy orchestrating a break-in.
Justice Harlan, the lone dissenter on the Supreme Court in the Plessey decision, argued which of the following?
a. Separate but equal is inherently unequal and should not be the law of the land. b. Our Constitution is color-blind and does not know or tolerate classes. c. Our nation does not need Court-created policies to grant African American rights. d. States should have full and sovereign control over their own laws and policies.