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- What landmark Supreme Court ruling granted corporations the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections?
- Media coverage of a race tends to accurately portray all races equally.
- The Green Party is an example of a third party.
- The winner-take-all system is a system in which all of the electoral votes for a state are given to the candidate who wins the majority of the popular votes in that state.
- _________________________________ is the term used when legislative districts are manipulated in an attempt to favor a particular candidate.
- The two main political parties today are the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
- _______________________ is the term used regarding sensationalized coverage of scandals and human interest stories.
- Agenda setting is the media's ability to choose which issues or topics get attention.
- What factors determine whether people turn out to vote in U.S. elections?
- News coverage focusing on exposing corrupt business and government practices is known as _____________________."
- Third parties bring important issues to the attention of the major parties. They also often serve as spoilers in the elections they enter.
- Open primaries do not allow voters affiliated with other parties to vote
- Contributions to PACs are unlimited, but restrictions have been placed on how much money can be contributed to super PACs.
- The two major political parties prefer closed primaries to open primaries
- California uses a top-two primary sending the two candidates with the most votes, regardless of party, into the general election.
- In what ways is media responsible for promoting the public good?
- Title IX is a section of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972 that prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of sex.
- Civil disobedience is an action taken in violation of the letter of the law to demonstrate that the law is unjust
- The establishment clause is found in the 5th Amendment.
- The Democratic Party had strong support in the South until the party backed the Civil Rights Act, the Voters Registration Act and supported a woman's right to choice.