Many state political party organizations are struggling today. What is the most significant explanation for this?
a. Many non-party groups are able to raise large sums of money for political causes.
b. There is a growing ideological gap between national and state political parties.
c. Many federal laws restrict state parties’ activities.
d. Recent Supreme Court decisions have reduced state parties’ autonomy.
a. Many non-party groups are able to raise large sums of money for political causes.
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a. Only a small number of ballots were actually returned. b. The sample was badly biased for an election that divided the electorate strongly along economic lines. c. The size of the sample was too big so that the margin of error in the poll was not precise. d. The ballots were sent out from Kansas, where one of the contenders lived.
How does the Affordable Care Act change health care in the United States?
A. It establishes a "single-payer" system in which the government contracts with private firms to provide medical services, equipment, and drugs on behalf of the general public. B. It sets baseline standards for what health care plans must cover. C. It forces states to expand the number of people who are covered by Medicaid, including poor adults without children. D. It includes a "public option"-government insurance plans-to compete with private insurance companies within the state insurance pools.
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Based on this chard which of the following explains why some states support the three-friths Compromise
a. Virginia and south Carolina had the highest slave populations and could add three-fiths of each slave to their populations for representation b. only six states have slave populations of more than thirty percent to add three-fiths of each slave to their population for representation c. fewer than fifty percent of the States had a significant slave population to take advantages of the three-fith compromise d. new Hampshire and north Carolina had insignificant slave populations and the three-frith Compromise was of no advantage