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Suppose there is an unusual four-way race for a seat in Congress here in Texas. The final results of the vote after the November election are the following: Candidate A wins 25% of the vote; Candidate B wins 12% of the vote; Candidate C wins 24% of the vote; and Candidate D wins 39% of the vote. Who wins the election? 

Much attention has been given recently to same-sex marriage. One reason cited by the Supreme Court to grant the right to marry to same-sex couples was that…

The first era of Western music history in which instrumental music was as important as vocal music was the:

In 2016, Texas had 38 electoral votes. That year, Donald Trump won 4.7 million popular votes to Hillary Clinton’s 3.9 million popular votes in the state. On election night, how many of Texas’s electoral votes were projected for Trump to receive in the 2016 election?

President Franklin Roosevelt took matters into his own hands in 1933, providing a detailed outline to Congress of the laws and policies he wanted to see enacted during his first term of office. This is an example of the president acting as …

Federalists opposed the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution, because they believed…

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Deciding how to distribute scarce resources in a way that is satisfactory to all competing interest groups, Congress is performing the function of…

Primary elections are used as a means of…