Polling
American Political Beliefs
Political Ideology
Social Policy
Economic Policy
100

This type of poll gauges attitudes regarding candidates and issues.

Public Opinion

100

Belief in the Rule of Law and Limited Government are examples of these.

American Political Cultural Beliefs

100

Issues that most of the public agrees on regardless of political affiliation.

Valence issues

100

Taxes are paid into this program and funds can be withdrawn starting at age 65.

Social Security

100

This type of policy deals with revenue and spending.

Fiscal Policy

200

These types of polls are conducted at polling places to predict election outcomes.

Entrance and Exit Polls

200

Family, Media, Schools, and Social Organizations are all examples of this.

Vectors of Political Socialization

200

An issue with high importance to an individual or group can be described as having high:

Saliency

200

This program helps with medical expenses for low income and disabled individuals.

Medicaid

200

Inflation and interest rates are concerns for this type of policy.

Monetary

300

A representative sample in polling is designed to reflect.

The population as a whole.

300

These are the changes generations go through their lives that can impact political beliefs.

Lifestyle Effects

300

This political ideology believes the only roles of government are defending property and upholding individual rights.

Libertarianism

300

Support for disadvantaged people to meet their basic needs.

Social Welfare

300

Income tax is an example of this kind of tax.

Progressive tax

400

This measures the difference between the actual results and polling data

Margin of Error

400

This generation represents a large portion of our government and were influenced by events like the Kennedy Assassination and the Vietnam War

Baby Boomers


400

This political ideology supports strong workers rights and higher taxes on the wealthy to support government programs.

Progressivism

400

The right to privacy was first conceptualized in Griswold v Connecticut to allow access to this:

Contraceptives

400

These are programs Congress is required by law to fund every year.

Entitlement Programs

500

This effect was well demonstrated in the 2016 election as people may not have shared or answered their beliefs to pollsters.

Non-Response Bias

500

Age, Race, Economic Status, and Geographic location are all examples of this kind of data.

Demographic

500

Someone who supports supply side economics would most likely align with this ideology.

Conservatism

500

A major issue for social security spending in the future.

An aging population.

500

Military spending falls under this part of the budget.

Discretionary Spending