When Republican party activists tried to turn out their base to vote for Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential campaign, those activists were engaging in ______.

a. electioneering
b. party discipline
c. conflict extension
d. realignment
e. patronage


a. electioneering

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a. inherit property. b. own property. c. convey property. d. All the above are true.

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A law or constitutional amendment proposed by a legislature or city council that does not go into effect until the majority of voters approve it is called a(n)

A) approval ballot. B) initiative. C) referendum. D) recall. E) primary.

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What event first led radical Islamists to believe they could successfully drive Western influence out of Muslim land?

a. The Iranian revolution in 1979 b. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 c. The bombing of U.N. barracks in Lebanon in 1983 d. The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989

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