Additional notes (2): This was a hard quiz to compose, and should be extremely difficult even for American history and politics buffs, so don't be discouraged by low numerical scores.
There are many hazy and fuzzy areas, apart from the obscurity of the smaller parties. One is that not every state ballot always carried the same pair of presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Some parties' candidates would not appear on a state's ballot because of requirements for age, gender (before women's suffrage), U.S. birth or citizenship, and would be replaced with someone who did meet those requirements. Protest candidates and parties who had no expectation of winning an election would sometimes let their state organizations choose their own vice-presidential candidates. Eugene McCarthy wanted to abolish the vice-presidency, and ran with nearly two dozen different "running-mates" in 1972. Some protest tickets didn't seek or obtain the consent of the candidate for whom their Electors, if chosen, would vote. |
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