Media
When the media tells some stories and not others, the "role" they are playing.
What is Agenda Setter
This problem occurs when people do not join an organization but enjoy the benefits of it.
What is the free rider problem?
This is the name for a state that isn't predictably won by one party or another.
What is a Swing state?
The term for when people choose their candidate based on promises they are making for the future.
What is prospective voting?
Black men can vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
When the media spins a story to try and make the audience feel or believe one side of it.
What is Issue Framer/ Framing?
Legal argument written by an interest group who is not a party in a case with the purpose of voicing their opinion on the matter.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
What is the goal during the PRIMARY process if you are running for president?
What is earn delegates, or earn the nomination?
A primary in which anyone who is registered to vote in either political primary.
What is an open primary?
Women can vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Required course case that dealt primarily with invetigatory journalism.
What is New York Times Co. vs. US?
Congressional committee, federal agency, interest group
What is an iron triangle?
This is the process by which people start to identify less and less with political parties
What is Dealignment?
The level of government that sets most rules dealing with elections and voting?
What are the states?
18-year-olds can vote
What is the 26th Amendment?
The election of 1960, specifically the debate between JFK and Nixon, brought to light the new influence of this type of media.
What is Television?
People interest groups will hire to talk to and try to influence legislators and legislation.
What are lobbyists?
Which group of people are the most likely to win congressional races?
What are incumbents?
Most states allocate their electoral votes in this manner.
What is winner take all?
Residents of Washington DC can vote.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
The role the media most often plays during elections.
What is horse-race?
This case held that corporations and unions can make financial contributions to political candidates and parties through their own treasuries, overturning parts of the Buckley case. Super PACs were allowed to be created due to the ruling in this case.
Citizens United v. FEC
During the last realignment after the 1932 election, what happened to the "solid south"?
Went from Democratic to Republican
The group that decides the presidency if no one candidate receives a majority in the electoral college.
What is the House of Representatives?
Poor people can vote - this amendment banned this specifically.
What is the 24th Amendment banned poll taxes?