Generations & Voting
This generation includes people born before 1945.
What is the Silent Generation?
Name the 5 cornerstones of American political culture.
What are individualism, equal opportunity, free enterprise, rule of law, and limited government?
Citizens favoring strict welfare thresholds and longer prison sentences are usually considered this.
What are Conservatives?
A survey at the start of a campaign to establish baseline support.
What is a Benchmark Poll?
The author of The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
The process by which individuals develop their political beliefs.
What is Political Socialization?
What is the purpose of weighting in a poll?
To adjust survey results so they more accurately reflect the demographics of the population.
The Silent Generation supported a 9-year involvement in this Asian conflict.
What is the Vietnam War?
This principle ensures government leaders are subject to the same laws as citizens.
What is the Rule of Law?
Citizens more likely to support welfare at higher income levels and leniency for lawbreakers.
What are Liberals?
A poll asking voters how they voted after leaving a polling place.
What is an Exit Poll?
The idea that individuals pursuing their own interests unintentionally benefit society.
What is the Invisible Hand?
This describes how families influence their children’s political opinions.
What is Family influence on political opinions?
Give an example of when weighting might be needed in a poll.
If too many women and not enough men are surveyed compared to the actual population.
The Silent Generation was most reliable in this civic activity.
What is voting?
This cornerstone emphasizes competition, private ownership, and minimal government interference.
What is Free Enterprise?
The process by which you develop your political beliefs.
What is Political Socialization?
This type of polling spreads false or misleading info disguised as a survey.
What is Push Polling?
Smith believed this system, not mercantilism, was key to economic growth.
What is Free Trade?
These effects describe how aging impacts political attitudes.
What are Lifestyle Effects?
How does weighting adjust responses from overrepresented and underrepresented groups?
Overrepresented groups are given less weight; underrepresented groups are given more weight.
On social issues, the Silent Generation opposed these two cultural changes.
What are gay marriage and legalizing marijuana?
The belief that government should be run by the people through elected representatives.
What is Democracy?
Changes in attitudes caused by physical, social, or psychological aging.
What are Lifestyle Effects?
In polling, this technique adjusts survey results to better reflect demographics of the population.
What is Weighting?
The belief in the fundamental worth and importance of the individual.
What is Individualism?
These effects describe how belonging to a particular age cohort influences political views.
What are Generational Effects?
Name two demographic categories pollsters might consider when applying weighting.
Gender, race, age, income, education, or region (any two).
In 2016, this generation was very divided on the approval of each candidate.
What is the Silent Generation?
The idea that America has a special place in the world due to its founding and development.
What is American Exceptionalism?
This New Deal-era voting bloc coalition included labor unions, blue-collar workers, minorities, white Southerners, and intellectuals.
What is the New Deal Coalition?
This bias occurs when people answer questions in ways they believe are socially acceptable.
What is Social Desirability Bias?
This federal agency enforces laws prohibiting job discrimination.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
This type of bias happens when respondents answer in ways they think will look good to others.
What is Social Desirability Bias?
What is one risk of weighting in polls?
If assumptions about demographics are wrong, the adjustment could make results less accurate.