Team of men and women seeking to control the governing apparatus by gaining office in the dually constituted election
What is political party
100
Year President Kennedy was elected
What is 1960
100
Provide a regular perspective through which voters can view the political world.
What is Party Identification
100
Whose experiment concluded "with appropriate pretesting adequate control over a candidates public appearance, a campaign consultant should be able to significantly manipulate the image projected to the voting public."
What is Rosenburg and McCafferty
100
Occurs when people base their choices in an election on their own issue preferences.
What is Policy Voting
200
Electoral choices that are made on the basis of the voters' policy preferences and on the basis of where the candidates stand on policy issues
What is policy voting
200
The academic world's best source of information on voting behavior over time
What is the American National Election Studies
200
The recent trend with the young voters and what party they are registering with
What is registering independent
200
Name one of the three most important dimension of candidate image.
What is Integrity, reliable or competence
200
One of the four conditions necessary for true policy voting to take.
What is voters must know their own policy position, voters must know candidates policies, must see differences between candidates or must cast votes for candidates.
300
An institution created by the Constitution that provides for the selection of the president by electors chosen by the state parties. The winner-take-all rule applies
What is electoral college
300
Three elements that influence voters decision
What is voter's party identification, voter's evaluation of the candidates and the match between the policy of voter's and candidates.
300
Group of people that generally don't vote for Democrats
What is upper-income voters
300
Who came up with the dimensions of candidate image.
What is Miller, Wattenburg and Malanchuk
300
A regular obstacle in policy voting
What is candidates often decide that the best way to handle a controversial issue is to cloud their positions in rhetoric.
400
Voting with one party for one office and with another party for other offices
What is ticket spltting
400
this was designed to build upon past efforts to reach younger voters
What is Youth Vote Coalition
400
One group of people Republicans generally don't receive many votes from.
What is African Americans
400
Why is it difficult to defeat a sitting president
What is they score higher on competence.
400
Why is it easier for voters to vote according to policies today?
What is candidates are regularly forced to take clear stands to appeal to their own party's primary voters.
500
The idea that the winning candidate has a mandate from the people to carry out his or her platforms and politics.
What is the mandate theory of elections?
500
Out of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish; which religion voted most for Kennedy.
What is Jewish.
500
Why did the parties hold on voters erode in the 1960s and 1970s?
What is emergence of television and candidate-centered politics.
500
Does personal image make a difference in an election?
Yes
500
What recent president took particularly strong and clear policy stances on tax cuts, the war on terror and appointing conservative judges.