Process by which background traits influence one's political views
What is political socialization?
100
Polls based on interviews conducted on Election Day with randomly selected voters
What are exit polls
100
A government-printed secret ballot procedure
What is an Australian ballot?
100
The practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through registration requirements and intimidation.
What are white primaries?
100
First major U.S. politician to proclaim himself conservative.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
200
The difference in political views between men and women.
What is the gender gap?
200
The difference between the results of random samples taken at the same time.
What is sampling error?
200
People who do not vote and rarely discuss or take interest in politics.
What are inactives?
200
A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they voted prior to 1867.
What is a grandfather clause?
200
Most common response given by poll participants when asked to classify their ideology.
What is moderate?
300
Title individuals who do not share a political party with their parents use to describe themselves.
What is an independent?
300
Method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected.
What is random sampling?
300
Term for people who participate fully in politics in multiple ways - voting, discussing politics, writing editorials or letters to officials, and financially supporting candidates.
What are activists?
300
This region of the United States typically has the lowest voter turnout.
What is the South?
300
Around the time of FDR, this term came to refer to an active federal government that would intervene in the economy, social welfare, and social groups.
What is liberal?
400
Ideology that tends to increase or become more likely as a person continues schooling into higher education.
(Based on studies of the 1960s)
What is liberalism?
400
Methods used not to collect public opinion data, but instead to suggest misinformation or attempt to realign policy saliency.
What is a push poll?
400
People who do not vote but will sometimes participate when they take an issue personally - for example, writing a letter to a politician.
Who are parochial participants?
400
This measure, as opposed to voting-age population, is a better representation of voter turnout.
What is voting-eligible population (VEP)?
400
These people are conservative on economic matters and liberal on social ones.
What are libertarians?
500
Political party to which African Americans more closely associate with.
What is the Democratic Party?
500
Difference between real election results and poll results allegedly from racist voters telling pollsters they will vote for an African American but then voting for white candidates.
What is the Bradley Effect?
500
People who do not participate in contentious or polarizing party politics but are active in local groups and programs.
Who are communalists?
500
This 1993 law was intended to increase voter registration in the United States.
What is the motor-voter law? (National Voter Registration Act of 1993)
500
These people are liberal on economic issues and conservative on social ones.