List and discuss the three types of primary elections.
What will be an ideal response?
Closed primary—an election contest restricted to party loyalists; excludes supporters of other political parties and independent voters. Open primary—an electoral contest in which voters do not have to declare party affiliation to participate, but they must request a specific party’s ballot at the primary and are then barred from participating in the other party’s primary. In Texas’s open primary system, voters do not have to declare party affiliation when registering to vote. Blanket or wide-open primary—a primary in which voters do not register party affiliation and receive ballots containing the names of all candidates from all political parties running for office. Voters may choose only one candidate per political party. Only Louisiana has a blanket primary for state and local races.
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A. Neither period was particularly remarkable. B. Both were periods of prosperity. C. Both were periods of crisis. D. The first was a period of prosperity; the second was a period of crisis. E. The first was a period of crisis; the second was a period of prosperity.
Which traditionally Republican state became a competitive state in the 2008 election?
a. North Carolina b. North Dakota c. Ohio d. California e. New Hampshire
Both General Ibrahim Babangida and General Sani Abacha prolonged their rule by
a. promising to return the country to civilian rule and then regularly delaying it. b. instituting themselves as "presidents-for-life." c. setting up "transitional governments" that were meant to fail. d. manipulating ethnic groups. e. changing the country's constitution.
The feminist school of thought that is skeptical of all claims to objective truth is
a. postmodernism. b. standpoint theory. c. feminist liberalism. d. empiricism.