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When talking about the constitution, structural rules are
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the rules of the game
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What is the constitution?
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A document that sets out the mission, who does what and how they do it.
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3 things the original constitution contained?
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7 articles, a permeable, and the signatures of the people present
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What did the founders believe would be the strongest branch of government?
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legislative
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What did article 1 do?
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It laid out the powers of Congress, it is the longest article
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What type of system did article 1 intend for congress?
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a parliamentary style
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Which section of Article 1 gives congress power?
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8
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According to Article 1 the president is merely ?
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chief administrator
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Section 1 of Article 1 says
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that all legislative power is given to congress
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Section 9 of Article one does what?
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Sets limits for Congress
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Three things that article 1 sections 2 through 7 define?
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Selection of member to congress, house duties, and how a bill becomes a law
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Which article and section limits the power of individual states?
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Article 1 section 10
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Describe article 2 and how long is it?
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4 sections, Covers the powers and limitations of the Executive branch
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Article 2 section 1 =
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All EXECUTIVE power is vested in the president
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Section 2 of article 2 is
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Commander in chief clause
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Section 3 and 4 of article 2
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3= State of Union, Convene the congress, and Take care that the law is faithfully executed
4= impeachment |
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What is article 1 section 8? article 2 section 2? difference?
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Gives congress power, gives president power , Article 2 is vague and leaves alot of provisions open
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Which of the first 3 articles is the shortest?
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3rd which outlines the Judiciary
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What does article 3 do? 2 main things?
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sets up the supreme court and gives congress power over lower courts.
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3 branches of government?
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Judiciary, legislative, and executive
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What does article 4 do? 4 things/
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Creates the union, congress decides who joins union, state must recognize other state laws, the government will back up the states
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Whats article 5 and how many times have we used it?
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Process for amending the consitution, 27 times, but -10 because they were laid out
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Whats article 6
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requires an oath to office to support the constiution, THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE
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Article 7
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Process of Ratification
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What are some implications to article 6 ?
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It contains the articles of confederation, limits the governments power, no way to raise revenue
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Whatwas wrong with states being free riders?
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The states would only participate if it benefited their individual state, they didn't have to help other states which means the government does not work
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The major differences between Articles and Constitution?
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Articles- Power given by states, no taxing
Constitution- Power through popular sovereignty, coined money, and taxed |
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What do we see the supreme court doing in most ruling?
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consistently ruling in favor of federal power
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One problem that the constitution set up?
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Issues on how supreme the supreme court is when it comes to states making laws
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If federal problems are presented in a certain state, states can ask Congress to hold the trial in their own state instead of the Supreme court
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true, re-read
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Can states void a congressional law?
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no!
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Are we a federal system today?
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no, the power of the federal government has grown the federal government is able to regulate almost every part of life
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What is the nomination process? 4
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Series of elections, nominated by party, delegate support, and primaries and cacuses.
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Why is the nomination process confusing?
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The primaries can cause intra-party fights then its democrat vs republican
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How is the media involved in nomination
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they follow the most likely candidate and give him the best press time
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What is a caucus?
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Held in almost every state, its an electoral meeting to see who should run for their party
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Describe the Caucus in Iowa?
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a closed system, only party members can vote, Each state does it their own way
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What is a political party composed of? 3 groups
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Party organization, Party electorates, party in government
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Which part of the political party does delegates fall into?
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Party organization
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4 common primary types?
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open, closed, white, or runn-off
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How do you win the nominations?
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Must have the support of the delegates of the party
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3 things that give a candidate viability
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Popularity, Money, and support of party activists
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What is an activist? what is one visible difference with nominations?
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Activists are supporters and extremists, the nominations are starting earlier and more expensive
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What was matthew Santos's strategy get nominated?
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Gain momentum, get his name out their
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Is it important to win every caucus?
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no, its important to improve every time, momentum is everything
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If you underpreform your expectations,
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It gives your party the appearance of failure
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Early contests mean what for momentum?
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their very important, to help you get established
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When does the general election begin?
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Typically after the national conventions, then its party v. party
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Why do third parties fall out during the general elections? what is the result
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no party support, no funding, a two party competition forms...
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How do you win the general election?
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Must have majority of electoral votes, 270 out of 538.
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# of electors per state =
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Number of repersentatives and senators
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What is the strategy to the general election?
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focus on bigger states with more votes, win by a little not a lot
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Can you win the popular vote and lose the election?
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yes, all votes don't count equally
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One thing that will help to win presidency?
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having loyalty of party in the electoral, Senators and reps that associate to your party
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4 things the media influences on presidency votes
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Horse-race format (talk about winners), critical of incumbent, critical of democrats, and male v. female
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What does the media cause?
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a small group of candidates, stressing religion, demographics, and charisma
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3 other parts besides president to the executive branch?
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White house staff, staff agencies, and civil servants
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2 main staf agencies?
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Office of management and budget, and national security council
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2 parts to the white house staff?
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west wing, and Old executive office building
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How are bureaucrats created in the executive branch?
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divided loyalties due to actions of the president
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What is some of the problems due to a large government? why not stay small?>
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Clashing between major powers, we can't stay small, we have too high of demands on our government
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4 bureaucratic departments CRIG
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Cabinet departments, Regulatory agencies, Independent executive branches, and government corporations
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What are the presidents powers and roles? historically...
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George washington was manager of three departments- Treasury, state, and war
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what are some of the roles of the president? 4
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Head of state, Chief Executive, Commander in chief, Chief diplomat
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Who checks the president
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congress
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As the chief diplomat,
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the president can negotiate treaties
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As Chief legislator,
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the president veto and state of union
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Can the president introduce legislation?
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no but he is involved in shaping it
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What are implied powers to the president?
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Powers that are reasonably derived from the powers given to execute his job
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What are inherent powers?
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Powers held by a state or the government
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Whats i mean for the presidet to be the crisis manager?
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To be there to be strong and immediate to address the nation after disaster
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How does the economy directly link to the presidents approval rating?
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when times are good, the rating will be good, the president is "responsible" for the economic times
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The president is incharge of the economy?
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no, it is his extra constitutional role because Article 2 doesn't give him that power
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As a party leader, the presidents....
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views and actions are automatically associated to his party
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4 main people below the president?
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VP, First lady, White house staff, and Bureaucracy
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What are the duties of VP?
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Presides over senate, Take over presidency in emergency
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The VP was worthless in past government, why is it different today?
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the US is bigger, and the VP can be able to gain votes
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The first VP to be moved into the white house?
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Agnew with nixon
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Role of the first lady?
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to directly help the president, host house parties, she is not in the constitution
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Who is responsible to represent the white house in media?
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the director of communications, the press secretary!
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Can the president control the media?
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he does have a slight ability to skew the message and use the media to his advantage
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Whats the relationship between the president and the media?
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they like to make them their "friends" they live off eachother, but reporting= spinning and framing
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3 reasons why presidents are more powerful?
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Timing, Electoral results, National problems
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If the president looks good to the media,
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then he will rally public support
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What do presidents use to achieve goals and make things happen?
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persuasion and bargaining
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Consequences of going public?
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you can't take it back, hate commercials can be painful for both parties
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Why do presidents go public?? 3 reasons, what does approval rating mean?
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Changes in WA, Increased polarization of congress, rules of congress, and they live or die by approval
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What is the permanent campaign?
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Everything the president does is about campaigning, every move is under the close watch
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Why is permanent campaigning important
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to take advantage of every possibility to win the next election
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How does the permanent campaign effect governing?
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The president gets constant feedback on every move he makes
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How does the president constantly keep the permanent campaign going?
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by making committees watch and poll to follow politics
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two main things obama is currently watching in his permanent campagin?
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the approval rating and favorability rating
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What is the question facing obama with his permanent campaign?
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can he manage it better than clinton and bush, or will there be big problems
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What are the two presidencies? Whats the problem?
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Foreign Affairs and domestic affairs. the general public and be more interested in domestic opinions while the president may try to aim at solving foreign affairs
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What are the cautions to the president when talking about domestic affairs?
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More educated party and faces strong interest groups.
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Can the media move public opinion
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no, but it will effect what we believe is important, This is why the president trys to control the cycle of news
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3 beneits to the president on foreign policy?
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He has more power, fewer interest groups, and unstable public opinion
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The war in Iraq is a foriegn policy that is related to
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the domestic policy
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The only legitament factor in foreign policy is
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the president
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Is their a difference for the president in his views from domestic policy to foreign affairs?
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definetly, major differences
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What is the trend for presidents focus on foreign policy?
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They spend more time focusing on it in their second term
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If one branch of government gains power, then another
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loses power, its a zero sum game
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What is the part of the constitution that effects the states no longer having legislative powers?
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Article 1 section 10
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By winning a primary, the candidate earns what?
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a spot for his delegates at the convention
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Describe a primary election?
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Individuals vote seperatly and the outcome is tallied up
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Describe a closed primary? Open?
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Only people in that party can vote, everyone can vote
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2 types of blanket primaries?
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1. you get get to choose whichever party you want within each separate offices. 2. the other is the ballot shows all the parties and you select one.
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Define a white primary?
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Only whites can vote- unconstitutional, its what they used to do to keep blacks from voting
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Whats a run-off primary?
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Must have atleast 51% of popular vote to win, if it isn't 51% they revote
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What does EMILY's stand for
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Early Money Is Like Yeast
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Who was the first active first lady?
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Elanor Roosevelt
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Does the president have the power to persuade?
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not right away, they need to gain their respects
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Why is the white house staff important?
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they affect the look of the president, very important
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Whats the relationship between cabinet secretaries and the congress?
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the secretaries must show their budgets to congress to make sure their incheck
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What do signing statements do?
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Provides the administrations with interprutations of a law. The president can use this instead of trying to pass something in congress.
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