What is the primary role of the political consultant in today's campaign process?

A. To organize the Get Out the Vote drive prior to election day
B. To devise the campaign theme and overall strategy
C. To direct fundraising and spending
D. To monitor the campaign’s progress through polling
E. To deal directly with the press covering the campaign


Answer: B

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A. fewer than 30.000 inhabitants per seat. B. two seats for every 30,000 inhabitants. C. one seat for every 20,000 inhabitants. D. one seat for every 100,000 inhabitants.

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What effect would President Reagan have had if his proposals for devolution were fully implemented?

a. The states would have been stripped of all power to implement social welfare and the power would be the sole responsibility of the federal government. b. Such a large-scale devolution of federal programs would have returned federal-state relations to the version of federalism that existed before the New Deal. c. President Reagan would have reduced all of the states’ responsibilities, allowing the federal government to act as a nanny government. d. During his tenure, President Reagan would have appointed only justices with liberal ideologies to the Supreme Court. e. President Reagan would have arbitrated a stronger relationship between the Supreme Court and Congress whereby they worked cooperatively and in unison to implement policies.

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Discuss the different strategies used during presidential elections. What are the dynamics at the pre-primary, primary, and general-election stages? How does the primary-election strategy differ from the strategy of the general-election campaign?

What will be an ideal response?

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Unlike cost-benefit analysis, ______ cannot tell the analyst whether an outcome is beneficial, only what it will cost to achieve a specified quantity of the outcome.

A. cost-effectiveness analysis B. econocratic analysis C. optimization analysis D. risk assessment analysis

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