Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The problem with Latina and Latino voting is that their potential voting population far exceeds the number of Latinas and Latinos who actually participate in the voting process.
2. While the ways in which parties structure their nomination processes have changed and continue to change, the general trend in modern campaigns has been one of increasing exclusion.
3. Though theoretically possible, it has never happened that a U.S. presidential candidate has been elected president and has lost the popular vote.
4. Political scientist Larry Bartels has described momentum or “Big Mo” as the most important resource that a candidate for national office can have.
5. By the 1970s, the decreasing trend in reelection rates for congressional incumbents had become so pronounced that the theory of incumbency advantage had been dispelled in the minds of most political scholars.


1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. False

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