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Caucuses, Primaries, and the Nominating Process Quiz
December 24, 2020
</p> <section> <h2>Caucus, Primaries, and the Nominating Process Quiz</h2> <p><em>by Jeremy Bailey</em></p> <p> </p> <p>The 2020 presidential election contest got serious on February 3 when Iowa held its first-in-the-nation caucuses. This will be followed by a series of primaries and caucuses in other states, which continue through June 16 and end with the party conventions during the summer, when each party’s candidates for president and vice president formally will be nominated.</p> <p>The quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of the presidential nominating process.</p> <p> </p> <p><em style="color: #313131;">Jeremy D. Bailey, a member of the Ashbrook Center faculty, is a professor at the University of Houston. He is the author of several books on the American presidency and editor of the newly published Ashbrook Center compendium “American Presidency: Core Documents.”</em></p> </section> <section> <h2><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;">In 2019, several states changed their nominating process from caucus to primary. Which of the following states did not make this change?</span></h2> </section> <section> <h3><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;"> In which Article of the U.S. Constitution are the rules for selecting presidential nominees laid out?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;">Which Constitutional Amendment provided for separate ballots for president and vice president?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;">Iowa caucus-goers will be the first to express their preferences for their party’s presidential nominee in 2020. Voters from which state or states will be the last?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;">While Iowa will be the first state to hold voter caucuses, which state will hold the first primary?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;">What is the name given to the day when the greatest number of caucuses and primaries take place?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;">In several states, all candidates — regardless of political party affiliation — run on one ballot in one primary for the state’s nomination. Which of the following terms is not used to describe this type of primary?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3><span style="color: #313131;">All of the following states except one allows 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections (assuming they will be 18 by the date of the general election). Which one?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;">The current nominating system originated in:</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3><strong></strong><span style="color: #313131;">In the 1980s Democrats added a certain group of people to the process to ensure that party leaders maintained some control over the nomination process. This part of the Democratic nomination process was controversial in 2008 and 2016 and was changed in time for 2020. What were the people in this group called?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h2></h2> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <section> <h3></h3> </section> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>
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