- 1. How do you have to campaign in Hawaii?
- a. Stand
on a corner wearing a colorful lei holding the biggest sign you
can and wave at all the passing traffic.
b. Shake hands in front
of girls dancing the hula.
c. Pass out potato chips
with your picture on the package.
d. All of the above.
- 2. What is Newt Gingrich's advice for the best campaign slogan?
- a. Create
the best hook (like "Linda for Literacy").
b. Include the word “revolution
to show people you mean business.
c. Change your name to
something less ordinary.
d. Make a statement that
leaves an impression.
- 3. Why does Mario Cuomo say that no one would watch the Lincoln-Douglas
debates on television?
- a. No
one knows who Lincoln or Douglas are.
b. People are more interested
in Millard Fillmore.
c. The debate would be
competing with such other programs as naked women mud wrestling.
d. The Civil War is still
too sensitive an issue
- 4. What would Thomas Jefferson's opponent have blamed him
for if attack ads were common in 1800?
- a. Banning
powdered wigs in Congress.
b. Importing the French
Revolution's Reign of Terror to the United States.
c. Subverting the Alien
and Sedition Acts.
d. Requiring every President
to be from Virginia.
- 5. What would Buddy Cianci, the five-term Mayor of Providence,
Rhode Island, do to get votes?
- a. Kiss
a pig in public.
b. Pose with a married
couple during their wedding pictures.
c. Tap dance with a senior
citizen tap dance drill team.
d. All of the above.
- 6. What is Texas lobbyist Babe Schwartz's advice on succeeding
in politics?
- a. Don't
pay by check for your extramarital activities.
b. Hire as many lobbyists
as you can to help spread the good word.
c. Convince the public
that you're sincere and honest and that you conduct yourself
properly at all times. And once you learn to fake that you've
got it made.
d. All of the above.
- 7. What sorts of questions do constituents ask Alderman in
the City of Chicago?
- a. What
color shirt to wear in the big parade.
b. How to protect themselves
from gamma rays.
c. Where the best place
is to catch the bus.
d. Can they have their
tax bracket changed.
- 8. What is Mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown's advice to
get elected?
- a. Focus
on television ads.
b. Out spend your opponent
on as many forms of publicity as possible.
c. Pray.
d. All of the above.
- 9. When first-time Congressional candidate Maggie Lauterer
ran for office in North Carolina, what was one of her biggest
complaints?
- a. Her
husband kept complaining that he hadn't had a home cooked meal
in months.
b. She got nervous making
speeches.
c. She got tired from
driving back and forth across the state.
d. The election was far
too partisan.
- 10. What was Kathleen Brown's secret weapon in her unsuccessful
race for governor of California?
- a. Public
television coverage.
b. The Plan (an economic
plan to restructure California that no one read).
c. Her brother Jerry's
radio talk show.
d. Strong support at
food processing plants.
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