This is a straightforward vocab question. Caucus is the correct answer. Remember: caucuses are relatively active events, where participants will debate, express support, and even sometimes physically move (as in to one side of the room or another) to show which candidate they think is worthy. Caucuses were once the most popular way of picking a presidential nominee, however, states that use the caucus now are in the minority.

Closed primaries– where only those voters who have registered beforehand as party members are permitted to vote – are legally allowed as part of the political process. While many more states choose to host open primaries, which allow any citizen (unregistered included) to partake, closed primaries remain a valuable tool that some parties continue to employ. Party machines, however, with their infamous fondness for dispensing overt patronage to those citizens who demonstrate loyalty but not necessarily ability, have been done away with by a series of new regulations put in place after the turn of the twentieth century. Soft money (funds stored aside by the party leadership to later distribute freely to candidates) has been more recently banned, as part of modern efforts to reduce corrupt party practices.

The Era of Good Feelings lasted from 1816 until 1824. It is called the Era of Good Feelings because the Federalist Party had receded from the national scene and the Democratic-Republicans, under President James Monroe, were the only Party in the political arena. The Era ended with the rise of Jacksonian Democrats and the Republican Party.

In the event that none of the candidates receive the necessary number of votes in the presidential election, the president is selected by the House of Representatives and the Vice President is selected by the Senate.  This process was established by the 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

According to Article I, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, each state shall have two Senators, with each Senator serving a term of six years. All senators are divided as equally as possible into three "classes," which have a staggered system of when each term ends. Thus, roughly one third of all senators are up for election every two years.

The primary responsibility of a poll watcher is to ensure that the election process is fair, honest, and involves no attempts at trickery or manipulation of the voting. Poll watchers are vital part of a fair and open modern democracy because they prevent chicanery.

Because the Senate is considered the senior government body in the legislature, it makes sense that you would have to be older to serve in the Senate than in the House. The correct answer is that you have to be at least twenty-five to serve in the House and thirty to serve in the Senate. Most members are usually significantly older than this minimum threshold.

To earn an absolute majority and be elected President of the United States, a candidate needs  out of an available  electoral votes.

A person must be a natural born citizen in order to be eligible to be president. This means that either the person was born within the United States or was born in a foreign country and had at least one parent with American citizenship. None of the other offices require that the holder be a natural born citizen, and if a member of the Cabinet is not a natural born citizen then that person is skipped on the presidential line of succession.

The only requirements to run for the office of U.S. Representative are that one must be at least 25 years old, have been an American citizen for at least 7 years, and reside in the state that the district is in. There is no actual requirement that a candidate has to live in the district that the candidate is trying to represent, only that the candidate live within the same state. Candidates for Senate do actually have to live in the state that they want to represent.