The single-member, simple-plurality electoral system strongly encourages representatives to be
A) responsive to the wishes of majorities in their districts.
B) hostile to the wishes of majorities in their districts.
C) responsive to the wishes of minorities in their districts.
D) invested in having a proportional number of ethnic and racial minorities in Congress.
E) lazy and unresponsive.
A
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In the "big-state strategy," a candidate will __________
a. spend a considerable amount of time directly contacting individual voters b. focus on winning primaries in large states because of their high delegate counts c. spend much more money in the early primaries rather than in later ones d. campaign primarily in states not considered to be firmly in the Democratic or Republican column
Thomas Jefferson saw his primary role in drafting the Declaration of Independence as ______.
a. justifying and defending American independence using logic b. complaining to Parliament about the actions of the king c. persuading other nations to support American independence d. persuading British citizens to support the American ideal