Immediately after an electoral ballot has been cast, as the voting populace disseminates from their voting districts, what pollers normally conduct to gauge an understanding of the voter turnout
What is an exit poll?
100
Quality that determines the importance of an issue
What is salience?
100
That which stopped people from voting by charging money?
What is poll tax?
100
States’ rights, free market, and economic freedom: these are all tenets of the _____ Ideology
What is Conservative
100
A highly educated woman living in the Northeast is more likely to be ____.
What is Liberal
200
This organization conducts polls and is one of the leading and most accurate collector of political data since 1935.
What is Gallup?
200
The role played by the national media in investigating political personalities and exposing scandals.
What is watchdog?
200
Where people can register to vote after the Motor-Voter Act
What is the DMV?
200
What political ideology is conservative on economic matters and liberal on social ones, commonly partnered with a small, weak government with little control over the economy and the personal lives of the citizens?
What is Libertarian
200
What am I? I am an undergrad at Stanford University studying politics. I believe in limiting government influence over the market and over the personal judgements of the individual citizens. I support pro-choice, and I do not practice any strong adherence to a mainstream religion
What is Libertarian
300
Groups are targeted by politicians as the representative population to signify how the entire population, at any level of the political system, would feel about a political issue
What is a Focus Group?
300
The press is adversarial in that it has a strong distrust of _____.
What are public officials/officials/politicians?
300
Clause that stated that if a persons grandfather couldn’t vote neither could they
What is the grandfather clause?
300
As party identification becomes more polar in Congress, who are political elites more likely to associate themselves with in congressional committees, meetings, etc?
What is like-minded cohorts
300
An African American is more likely to vote _____ in a year with major economic issues but few social ones.
What is Democrat
400
An issue that permeates throughout the polling network involves bias, and if a poll is biased it does not accurately reflect upon the general populace. In 1936, during the presidential election between Landon and Roosevelt, the major organization at the time that wrongly predicted Landon over Roosevelt using biased data from automobile owners
What is Literary Digest?
400
Name given to overly-sensational, and sometimes fabricated, journalism during the age of the popular press.
What is yellow journalism?
400
The presidential election in which the gender gap was first seen
What is Clinton
400
Regarding political tolerance, at a minimum citizens must have a political culture that allows the discussion of ideas and the selection of rulers in an atmosphere reasonably free of _______.
What is oppression?
400
Members of the rust belt, during times of economic hardship, are more likely to vote ____.
What is Democrat
500
When reviewing past elections and the past tendencies of how constituents vote, politicians use this information to predict how constituents will feel about certain issues, who constituents will vote for, and how constituents will be affected by the existence of a better known candidate on the ballot. What the political tendency is known as.
What is coattail?
500
Strict precursor to the equal time rule
What is the Fairness Doctrine?
500
It made racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants illegal and forbade job discrimination
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
In America, voters base their political ideology more on _______, whereas foreign nations base their political ideology on _______.
What is candidate/party?
500
What am I? I am a House Representative of the 14th district in Pennsylvania, and this is my first year at term. I am a member of the House Budget Committee. I believe that taxing individual citizens according to their annual income helps support a cure to the economic causes of crime, and that the government must provide restrictions on the market in order to prevent economic inequality.