What is a primary election?
What will be an ideal response?
Generally speaking, party members participate in a preliminary election to nominate candidates for various offices. Primary election winners will go on to compete head to head with the other party's nominees in the November general election. In California, all voters are allowed to choose from among a list of all candidates for an office, and the top two vote-getters compete against each other in order to win the November general election. The top two candidates can be from any party, which means that in some districts, the top two candidates will be from the same party. Technically the top-two primary is not a traditional political party primary, but a "voter preference" primary election.
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The opening dialogue of the book illustrates that ________
a. students have no power b. politics can happen anywhere c. students are apathetic about national politics d. teachers seldom exercise their authority e. teachers and students have similar political power
What is the highest tier of the federal court system?
A) Federal district courts B) State trial courts C) U.S. Court of Appeals D) The Supreme Court E) U.S. Court of Federal Claims