Voters may be concerned about bread-and-butter (or pocketbook) issues, crime, and a host of other issues, but ordinarily they think first about foreign policy

How was Catholic John F. Kerry's stance on abortion a factor in his 2004 run for President?

A) Catholics tend not to vote. B) It lost Kerry many Catholic votes. C) It won Kerry many Catholic votes. D) It had little to no impact via Catholic voters, who tend to vote as actively as other sectors of the public.

In presidential debates, it is common for

A) challengers to have much more to gain from debating than incumbents. B) nonvoters to favor the challengers over an incumbent. C) the minority party to enjoy an advantage. D) incumbents to have more to gain than a challenger. E) the debate to have little effect on the election outcome.