Vocabulary
The document drawn up by each party that outlines the policies and positions of the party.
What is a party platform?
To be a member of this, you need only think of yourself as a member.
What is a political party?
The difference between the percentage of votes for a candidate cast by women and those cast by men.
What is the gender gap?
The election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
What is the winner-take-all system?
The media that still has the greatest impact on most Americans.
The group which officially elects the president and vice-president.
What is the Electoral College?
A process in which a substantial number of voters change their political allegiance.
What is realignment?
When each person within an entire population being polled has an equal chance of being chosen.
What is a random sample?
The minimum number of electoral votes needed to become president of the United States.
What is 270?
The principle that Internet service providers should treat all traffic equally.
What is net neutrality?
A regularly scheduled election held in even-numbered years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
What is a general election?
Where the Republican and Democratic candidates for president and vice president are nominated every four years.
What is the national convention?
What is the 26th Amendment?
The campaign strategy of collecting as much info as possible about voters in a database and filtering out groups for special attention.
What is microtargeting?
The predominant audience of talk-radio (3 characteristics).
Who are middle-aged, conservative men?
The collection, analysis, and dissemination of information online by independent persons.
What is citizen journalism?
Selecting candidates, coordinating policymaking, and balancing competing interests?
What are the functions of political parties?
When a pollster's results appear to consistently favor a particular party.
The government institution that decides which presidential candidate wins if none receives the required number of electoral votes.
What is the House of Representatives?
The first presidential candidates to have a televised debate in 1960.
Who are John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon?
The learning process through which most people acquire their political attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and knowledge.
What is political socialization?
The nation's first two political parties.
What were the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans?
Institutions, such as family, media, peers, school, religion, and work, that work together to influence and shape people's political norms and values.
What are agents of socialization?
The law that regulates campaign financing and fundraising.
A 1964 negative issue ad suggesting a vote for Barry Goldwater was a vote for nuclear war.
What was the "daisy girl" ad?