Polls and Surveys
Media and Journalism
Elections and Voting
100
This type of polling introduces a type of bias into public-opinion polling. They are not scientific polls and ask loaded questions designed to elicit a response sought by the pollster. Most are negative and tend to attack other political candidates.
What is Push Polling?
100
Web-based and mobile-based technologies that are used to turn communication into interactive dialogue between organizations, communities, and individuals. Many forms include blogs, Twitter and Facebook.
What is Social Media?
100
Candidates can get huge financial support from PACs, which is an acronym for this.
What are Political Action Committees?
200
Scientific instruments for measuring public opinion.
What are Public-Opinion Polls?
200
News reported and distributed by citizens rather than professional journalists and for-profit news organizations.
What is Citizen Journalism?
200
This is the process by which political parties select their candidates for election to public office, usually, the one survivor of the state primaries.
What is Nomination?
300
Polling error that arises when the sample is not representative of the population being studied and creates errors in over representing/under representing some opinions.
What is Selection Bias?
300
News reporting devoted to a targeted portion (subset) of a journalism market sector or for a portion of readers or viewers based on content or idealogical presentation. Travel magazines are an example of this type of journalism.
What is Niche Journalism?
300
Under the laws of most states, only registered members of a political party may vote in a primary election to select that party's candidates. For example, you must register as a democrat in order to vote for Bernie Sanders if you live in Pennsylvania.
What is a Closed Primary?
400
THIS must be large enough to provide an accurate representation of the population. The size of the population measured is usually 1000-1500 people.
What is a Sample?
400
The power of the media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems.
What is Agenda Setting?
400
The founding fathers established this in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
What is Electoral College?
500
When being polled or surveyed, people will sometimes give the answer they think they interviewer wishes to hear rather than what they really believe.
What is Social Desirability Effect?
500
The power of the media to influence how events and issues are interpreted.
What is Framing?
500
The right to vote, also called Franchise.
What is Suffrage?
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