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Asking people's opinion to determine how people across the country (or state) are feeling about a certain issue

What is opinion polling?

100

Includes groups like women, African Americans, those under the age of 35, and people who live in the Northeastern United States.

What are groups that tend to vote for the Democratic Party?

100
Candidates use these to understand public preferences
What are polls?
100
Political ideology that promotes a stronger central government and a wide scope for the central government.
What is the liberal ideology
100

Policy that deals with taxing and spending; controlled by Congress and the President.

What is fiscal policy?

200
The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the census results.
What is reapportionment?
200

Women voting more liberally and men voting more conservatively.

What is the gender gap?

200
Relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole group being studied.
What is a sample?
200

The beliefs and ideals of an entire generation. Ex. Millenials tend to be more liberal than the generations that came before them.

What are generational effects?

200

Policy that deals with interest rates and money supply; controlled by the Federal Reserve.

What is monetary policy?

300
A coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy.
What is political ideology.
300

Includes white men, those over the age of 65, and those who make more than $75,000 per year.

What are groups that tend to vote for the Republican Party?

300

Do the majority of Presidents end a term with higher or lower approval ratings?

Lower

300

Major historical events that impact multiple generations.

What are period effects?

300

The idea that during a recession, the government should refrain from taxing businesses, making it so they can hire more workers and improve wages, in order to improve the economy.

What is supply-side (or trickle down) economics

400
The process through which individuals in society acquire political attitudes, views, and knowledge, based on inputs from family, schools, the media and others
What is political socialization?
400

Explain a historical event in US history and how it impacted voting patterns and/or political stances. 

Answers will vary

400

The most important factor in political socialization.

What is the family?

400

Party in government that believes the scope of American Government has become too wide range; the government has become too large.

What is the Republican party?

400

The idea that during a recession, the government should work to improve the situation for those at the bottom, through wrok programs, tax breaks, and other forms of social welfare, in order to improve the economy.

What is Keynesian Economics?

500

Define free enterprise as an American ideal.

An economy based on the idea that the government should not interfere with economic transactions. 
500

People tend to get more _____ as they get older.

What is Conservative?

500

Define a benchmark poll.

A poll taken at the beginning of an election cycle to learn the public's stance on issues.

500

The term for the idea that where you are in your life will help determine some of your political ideology.

What are lifecycle effects?

500

The economic theory that most Republicans hold to.

What is supply-side economics?