Split Ticket Voting Flashcards

Voting for candidates of different parties for different offices at the same election.

Voting for candidates of only one party in an election.

Voting for a Democrat President balanced by voting for a Republican senator.

<p>Over time and region to region.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>45% of districts split their ticket in 1984 vs only 6% in 2012.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>9% voted for Obama whilst voting for a Republican member of Congress and 10% voted McCain whilst voting for a Democrat congressman.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They have voted for a Republican presidency and a Democrat senator 9 times in the last 90 years.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cognitive Madisonianism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Voters want two different parties to have control to check the power on each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the South, where conservative Democrats are often elected to Congress alongside Republican candidates for the presidency.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Voters tend to retain their loyalty to congressional candidates even if they switch presidential candidates.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lackluster Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole was well behind in the polls, yet Republican supporters returned a Republican Congress.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Policy balancing model. 2. Different expectations. 3. Quality of candidates.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Voters intentionally split their vote to balance the extreme positions of the two main political parties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cognitive Madisonianism, where voters impose their own checks and balances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Voters realize that each elected body has different roles to play.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If they 'deliver the pork', irrespective of which party.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Members of Congress adopt a home style that pleases their local electorate at the expense of national issues.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Political scientist Richard Fenno in 1978.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Richard Nixon won a landslide victory against George McGovern, yet the Democrats still controlled Congress.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Generally seen as too liberal for the US electorate, as his platform included immediate withdrawal from Vietnam.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gubernatorial elections; e.g., in Montana in 2004, returning Democrat governor Brian Schweitzer while George Bush Jr claimed the EC votes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When the electorate seeks to moderate an executive it sees as too extreme.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When the charisma and popularity of a presidential candidate translates to gains in Congress.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A president can achieve more with his party controlling Congress than when facing a hostile Congress.</p> Signup and view all the answers