What is split ticket voting? Have you or your parents ever split your ticket? If so, why and if not, why not?ġ5. Is it more important for a politician to be consistent or to be flexible? Or to put it another way, to compromise or to remain firm? What do you think personally? What do you think would be more advantageous in terms of getting elected or reelected?ġ4. Why is partisanship so powerful in this country? Why is so stable and long-lasting?ġ3. Most Americans have a very clear sense of partisanship that remains with them their entire life. What is the logic behind having bound delegates? Why might party officials want them? Why might voters want them? What are the issues with this setup?ġ2. Does our current system of frontloading promote unrepresentative electorates for the two parties? Why do two, small, very racially homogenous states get to go first? What is the logic? How does it affect the final results?ġ1. What is frontloading? Why do states want to move their primary or caucus dates up earlier in the calendar? Why are the parties generally opposed? How does frontloading affect candidates? Voters?ġ0. What are the three parts of American political parties according to Key? Which part is the most accessible to the public? Which part is the most democratic? Which part is the most resistant to change?ĩ. Given that the founders were so negative about political parties, why did they form so easily? How did this feature, never mentioned in the Constitution, become a seemingly permanent fixture in our political system?Ĩ. Why were the founders so negative about the potential for parties? What risks did they pose? Have these dangers come to pass? In what ways was our system designed to work without parties?ħ. How does Trump use Twitter in his campaign? In what ways has this been a successful strategy? What risks are there to that approach?Ħ.
Why was that such an issue for the party? How might that have been a virtue for some voters?ĥ.
One of the biggest complaints from the Republican establishment about Trump was the fact that he had bounced between the Democrats and the Republicans over the past 30 years. Given what you know about voting, why was it a dangerous strategy for Sanders to focus so much of his attention on young voters? What was the advantage of that approach? How could he balance that strategy with other parts of the electorate?Ĥ. Given his longstanding affiliation as an independent should Sanders have been able to seek the Democratic nomination in the first place? Why or why not? What control should parties have over who seeks their nomination to run for office?ģ. Why was that? What was it about these candidates that allowed them to so successfully run against the establishment of their parties? Does it say something about their competition as well?Ģ. Both Sanders and Trump were able to win primaries even though a majority of the Democratic and Republican political establishment opposed them.
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