A) The presidential veto is an executive tool of near unlimited power.
B) The threat of a veto has never proven to be enough to make Congress bend to the president's demands.
C) Congress can usually muster the two-thirds majority in each chamber required to override a presidential veto.
D) The veto is as much a sign of presidential weakness as of strength,because it arises when Congress refuses to accept the president's ideas.
E) Obama was able to use the veto to force Congress to give him full restoration of a food stamp provision that he wanted.
G) A) and B)
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A) He wanted the support of farm states for his reelection bid.
B) It was almost exactly the bill he wanted.
C) It was close to the bill he wanted,with a few exceptions.
D) He recognized he had no chance of getting a better farm bill.
E) None of these answers is correct.
G) B) and E)
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A) was introduced during the Jacksonian era.
B) is used in Europe as well as in the United States.
C) became the primary model for selecting party presidential nominees in the later half of the 20th century.
D) is designed to strengthen the political parties.
E) was introduced during the Cleveland era.
G) B) and C)
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A) results of the primaries and caucuses; the candidate who places second in these contests is nominated as the running mate of the candidate who finishes first.
B) convention delegates' judgment as to the candidate who would make the best vice president.
C) results of public opinion polls taken just before the convention begins.
D) presidential nominee's choice of a running mate.
E) None of these answers is correct.
G) A) and B)
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A) extraordinarily strong office with sufficient powers to enable the president to control national policy under virtually all circumstances.
B) inherently weak office,in that presidents have almost no capacity to influence the major directions of national policy.
C) office in which power is conditional,depending on whether the political support that gives force to presidential leadership exists or can be developed.
D) office where power depends almost entirely on its occupant; strong leaders are always successful presidents,and weak ones never succeed.
E) office where power is fairly constant,regardless of the occupant or the circumstances.
G) A) and C)
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