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GOVT 2306 Spiker Rainey Spring 2014 Exam 3 Study Guide
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04/26/2014

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In selecting members for their state executive committee, Texas democrats would?
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choose one man and one woman per state senatorial district
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At the national level, Texas elects ___ senators and ___ representatives.
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2 senators and 36 representatives
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True or false: campaigning has decreased the independence of candidates for parties.
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False
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As a candidate of the ____ _____ Party, Ramsey Muniz managed to gain 7.2 percent of the vote for governor in 1972.
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Raza Unida
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The permanent party organization consist of?
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elected party officers
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Texas' use of a presidential preference primary means that?
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the presidential preferences of most Texan delegates are decided for the national convention.
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What party dominated Texas politics from the 1870's until the 1960's?
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The Democratic Party
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The start of the _____ system by President Andrew Jackson vastly increased the abilities of parties to run the governments to which their candidates were elected.
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spoils
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What happened to the Anglo population of Texas after annexation?
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established Democratic party dominance and were very distrustful of the federal government.
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John Tower was the first Texas Republican to?
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be elected to statewide office since the era of Democratic dominance began
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The ____ presidential election in which the Shivercrats ran for office, broke the tradition of straight ticket Democratic voting in Texas.
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1952
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Voter identification weakens third party chances because?
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voters grow up with two major parties and readily identify with them
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Party de-alignment at the national level occurred roughly around the ____ election.
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1968
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In 1988, the Republicans made big gains in Texas by capturing?
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seats on the Texas Supreme Court & a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission
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What was major political positions held buy Sam Houston?
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opposition to slavery & opposition to secession
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The average voting precinct in Texas contains how many voters?
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2,000
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What was the direct primary designed to accomplish?
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Open the selection of candidates directly to party members while reducing the power of party bosses
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What is open the best that a third party can hope to achieve in Texas?
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to have it's ideas adopted by a major party
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"Salami-slicing the electorate" refers to?
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the isolation of subgroups through research for targeted campaigning
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The dominant anti-Houston political faction of the period called themselves the ________ ________.
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Constitutional Democrats
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