Of the following, which would be the most important determinant in a successful congressional campaign?
A. the candidate's party affiliation
B. the candidate's prior experience
C. the candidate's policy specialization
D. the candidate's personal wealth
E. the candidate's incumbency
Answer: E
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a. journalists b. Congress c. prospective voters d. retrospective voters
As a result of Rodriguez v. San Antonio School District:
A. Minnesota was obliged to pass the Fiscal Disparities Act. B. New Jersey adopted a state income tax. C. the property tax was struck down as the means for financing public schools in Vermont. D. the property tax was not struck down as a means for financing public schools throughout the U.S.
In which of the following ways was political patronage instrumental in the assassination of President James Garfield?
a. His assassin was a disappointed political office-seeker. b. His assassin objected to the Pendleton Act. c. His assassin was a civil servant. d. His assassin was critical of the spoils system.
Which of the following is false?
a. The National Security Strategy of the United States revised and released one year after the World Trade Center attacks put forward a new policy for checking the threat of nuclear war that relied on preemption. b. A significant number of officials in the administration of George W. Bush felt that the United States had erred during the first Gulf War in 1991 in not pressing the operation all the way to Baghdad and ousting Saddam Hussein. c. In the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdad tested a low-yield nuclear warhead. d. The comprehensive 9/11 Commission Report, published in 2004, offered no evidence of collaborative ties between Iraq and al-Qaida.