What Was One of the Ways the 2012 Election Was

question 19

Multiple Choice

What was one of the ways the 2012 election was significant?

• A) It was the most expensive election in American history due to the Citizens United ruling that corporations could spend an unlimited amount to support candidates.
• B) Mitt Romney showed his willingness to alienate right-wing voters by embracing giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.
• C) The nation's fastest-growing groups, including Latinos, Asian Americans, and African Americans, tended to vote for Mitt Romney, signaling a new Republican party.
• D) Throughout the country, all laws that stifled voting by people of color, poor people, and immigrants were repealed, and Obama won in a landslide as a result.
• E) A majority of the white voters voted for Obama, demonstrating how far civil rights had advanced since the period following the Civil War.

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