Generational Effects
This age group bridges the political views between Baby Boomers and Millennials.
What is Gen X?
These types of polls are conducted outside polling places on election day to predict the election outcome.
What are Entrance and Exit Polls?
Congress covers this, which includes paying for those who are legally entitled to funds (social security, medicaid, etc).
What is Mandatory Spending?
This type of economics believes that when the demand is too low, the government should put more money into the economy.
What is Keynesian Economics?
These are concerns or policies that are viewed in the same way by people of opposing ideologies.
What are Valence Issues?
This age group is considered the most reliable when it comes to voting.
What is the Silent Generation?
This type of polling occurs when someone calls and states positive points about one candidate, or negative points about the opponent.
What is Push Polling?
According to liberal views, this method/form is used provide a safety net for for people in need.
What are Entitlements?
This type of economic theory believes that the government should let the laws of economics govern the marketplace.
What is Supply-Side Economics?
This ideology describes those who believe in tradition and having reverence for authority.
What is Conservative?
This age group follows a "stay out" mindset in some social and economic issues.
What are Millennials?
This is the first type of poll used by a political candidate, typically before they declare their intentions.
What are Benchmark Polls?
This is the term used to describe "providing support for disadvantaged people to meet their basic needs."
What is Social Welfare?
Congress created this to manage the country's money supply.
What is the Federal Reserve Board?
This ideology/term typically means being open to allowing the government to act flexibly and expand beyond constraints.
What is Liberal?
This age group normalized challenging the government as a political norm and, from 1992 - 2006, were a primarily Democratic group.
What are Baby Boomers?
Pollsters often use this to see whether individuals approve of a president's job performance or not.
What are Approval Ratings?
This is a health care program for the impoverished who cannot afford necessary medical expenses.
What is Medicaid?
This amendment allows Congress to tax people's incomes.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This group/ideology is conservative on economic issues, but tend to be liberal on moral and social issues.
What are Libertarians?
More than this percentage of young Americans argue for climate change, energy, and government efforts to assist the economy.
What is 66%?
Pollsters often use this in telephone polling until they establish a representative sample.
What is Random-digit Dialing?
This act, in 2010, became a divisive factor between the parties involving healthcare, where it established the idea of expanding government regulation to make the services more affordable.
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/ Obamacare?
This agreement involving trade barriers between North American countries created a battle between conservative corporations and liberal labor unions.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
This ideology is mainly found in the South/Midwest, views workplace safety protections as necessary expenses for the country's welfare, yet also curbs obscene speech.
What is Populist?