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1. What long-time Republican jumped ship in 2000 to run as the Reform Party's Presidential nominee?
2. Texas billionaire Ross Perot's on-again, off-again 1992 campaign ultimately failed to garner any electoral votes. But how much of the popular vote did Perot receive?
3. Bob Dole failed in his 1996 White House bid. But it wasn't his first experience in a presidential race. Who had selected Dole as his Vice Presidential nominee in a previous election?
4. Walter Mondale proved little more than a sacrificial lamb in Ronald Reagan's 1984 Electoral College slaughter. What was the only state that Mondale won?
5. Prior to his tragic death, Robert F. Kennedy appeared to be the likely 1968 Democratic Presidential nominee. What state's primary had RFK just won when he was assassinated?
6. The 1992, 1996 and 2000 presidential elections all failed to produce a majority winner in the popular vote.
7. Since the Electoral College was set at its current total of 538 votes in 1964, George W. Bush's 2000 tally of 271 represents the lowest winning total. Who, during the same timespan, was elected with the next lowest number of electoral votes?
8. The road to the White House begins with two states each election year. One holds a primary, the other a caucus, and a solid showing in both is usually required to make a successful bid for the party nomination. What two states are these?
9. To win the Presidency, a candidate usually needs to win at least two of the "big three" states, which heading into the 2004 election, collectively account for 120 electoral votes. What are these three states?
10. In his unsuccessful White House bid of 2000, Al Gore failed to win his home state of Tennessee. Who was the last major party candidate before Gore to lose his home state?
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