If you were running for governor in the democratic party in your hometown, it would be most advantageous for you to do which of the following? run when a wildly popular democratic incumbent was running for re-election have a short ballot at the polls have a long ballot in the primaries run in the general election on a split ticket

The correct answer is letter b.

The reason is that when surveying, you can have a concrete idea of what people are thinking about you and the election. This gives information about your possibilities about launching a campaign with the opportunity to win and prepare a plan and tactics to persuade people and make them vote for you.  

A presidential short ballot is the long way to conduct a presidential election. It shows the names of the candidates for president and vice president, with no more information.

whose power in the senate is equal to the power of the speaker of the house?

a, both were musicians during the jazz age