20-22 Amendments
The 20th and 22nd Amendment apply to this branch of the federal government.
What is the executive branch?
The 22nd Amendment was passed in response to this president’s four terms in office.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
This is the term for the collection of popular views on issues, events, or individuals.
What is public opinion?
Up to half of voters rely on this identity when decided who to vote for.
What is party ID?
In this political and economic system, government theoretically promotes common ownership of all property, means of production, and materials to prevent the exploitation of workers while creating an equal society.
What is communism?
These individuals often provide our first exposure to politics, values, and beliefs.
Who are parents?
This size sample makes a poll more accurate, because it will have relatively fewer unusual responses and be more representative of the actual population.
What is large?
This late-night comedy host was a shortcut to political news for Millennials and Gen Xers.
Who is Jon Stewart (Stephen Colbert)?
This effect is the difference between a poll result and an election result in which voters gave a socially desirable poll response rather than a true response that might be perceived as racist.
What is the Bradley Effect?
Until recently, this political institution historically enjoyed the highest level of support.
What is the Supreme Court?
Under the 20th Amendment, this person would replace president-elect Donald Trump should he be unable to take office before Inauguration Day.
Who is J.D. Vance?
The 21st Amendment repealed this earlier amendment that had established Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This is the term for newspapers, television, radio, and the Internet and is one way Americans are politically socialized.
What is media?
This political group of voters has grown over the past decade and is unaffiliated with the Democratic or Republican Parties.
Who are independents?
In this political system, the ruling party exerts total control over the economy, the military, society, and culture and often the private lives of citizens.
What is fascism?
In this state, a larger percentage of Democrats support gun ownership rights than those in most other states.
What is Texas?
Public opinion polling relies on this method to ensure that the data collected are representative of the population; every voter has an equal probability of being polled.
What is random sampling?
What is framing?
This error metric indicates the possible deviation of poll results from the true population opinion.
What is the margin of error?
When presidents use their popularity to rally public opinion to support policies, it is called this.
What is the bully pulpit?
The 20th and 21st Amendments were both ratified during this economically challenging decade in the U.S.
What is the 1930s?
This is the hour at which the President of the United States becomes the former President of the United States.
What is noon?
Family and school are examples of this, providing political guidance and shaping beliefs.
What are agents of socialization?
Many Americans feel a need for this in U.S. politics, seeing it as an alternative to the two main parties.
What is a third party?
The government in this political and economic system uses its authority to promote social and economic equality, providing everyone with basic services and equal opportunities and requiring citizens with more wealth to contribute more.
This state-based effect can lead citizens to develop opinions consistent with local values.
What is state political culture?
This sampling technique used in polling randomly generates numbers with certain area codes.
What is random digit dialing?
This effect describes when media coverage focuses on leading candidates in a race.
What is the bandwagon effect?
This polling method involves asking voters about their votes immediately after leaving the polls.
What is an exit poll?
Presidential approval ratings tend to do this over time.
What is drop/fall/decrease?
The 20th Amendment changed the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to this date.
What is January 20?
The 20th Amendment changed the start date for new Congressional sessions to this date.
What is January 3?
This challenge in polling arises when a question is phrased in a way that prioritizes one perspective over another.
What is framing?
This is the only generation with majority support for the Republican Party.
What is the Silent Generation?
This political ideology focuses on equality and supporting government intervention in society and the economy if it promotes fairness.
What is modern liberalism?
This type of support is characterized by a high level of stability in politics, acceptance of the government as legitimate, and a common goal of preserving the system.
What is diffuse support?
This is the margin of error for a candidate whose level of support in the population is between 45% and 53%.
What is +/- 4%?
This president’s approval rating increased dramatically after entering the Persian Gulf War.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This type of poll is informal and typically gathers opinions from a non-random sample.
What is a straw poll?
This effect describes a spike in a president’s approval rating following a national crisis.
What is the rally-around-the-flag effect?
This amendment, ratified in 1933, is often called the “Lame Duck Amendment.”
What is the 20th Amendment?
The 21st Amendment was unique in that it was ratified by this method, used only once in U.S. history.
What is/are state conventions?
Voters use this shortcut for decision-making that is based on loyalty to a political party.
What is party identification (or partisanship)?
This age group was most likely to vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Who are voters under 30?
This political ideology is based on belief in individual liberties and rights and the idea of free will, with little role for government. It overlaps with Libertarianism.
What is classic liberalism?
This is the term for learning from many information sources about the society and community in which we live and how we are to behave in it.
what is socialization?
This is a group of public opinion poll respondents who are demographically similar to the population of interest.
What is a representative sample?
This law restricts automated calls to cell phones, limiting certain types of polling.
What is the Telephone Consumer Protection Act?
The increased reliance on this technology among Millennials and Gen Z has made it difficult for pollsters to collect large, random, and representative samples of the U.S. population.
What are cell phones?
This tradeoff describes the balancing of military spending and social program funding.