Chapter 3 Bingo Terms

Question 1

Closed

Answer 1

Only registered voters for that party may attend these primaries/caucuses

Question 2

Caucuses

Answer 2

Less common then primaries

Question 3

Pledged

Answer 3

The delegates that we select in the primaries and caucuses

Question 4

Proportional

Answer 4

Candidates split votes-takes longer than winner takes all

Question 5

Super Tuesday

Answer 5

In February, the closest thing we have to a primary day

Question 6

Front-loading

Answer 6

When a state moves their primary or caucus forward so that there delegates are more important

Question 7

Electoral-Vote

Answer 7

Was created as a check on the public opinion, makes for a more clear-cut winner

Question 8

House of representatives

Answer 8

435 members; chooses a president when a candidate does not receive enough electoral votes to win

Question 9

Plurality Elections

Answer 9

Elections in which whoever gets the most votes NOT THE MAJORITY takes all the electoral votes for that state

Question 10

Single Member winner take all

Answer 10

The person with the most public vote gets all the electoral votes in a certain state

Question 11

Run-off

Answer 11

A second election if the majority is not reached, only top 2 candidates move on

Question 12

Referendum

Answer 12

Citizens voting to nullify a law

Question 13

Recall

Answer 13

Voting to move an elected official

Question 14

Horse-race

Answer 14

Coverage by the media of who’s up and who’s down in polls

Question 15

Agenda

Answer 15

What the congress follows

Question 16

Random Sampling

Answer 16

When each person has an equal chance to be chosen for a poll

Question 17

Sampling error

Answer 17

Statistical differences between 2 polls

Question 18

Exit polls

Answer 18

Polls that sample people immediately after they have voted

Question 19

Mid-term

Answer 19

Congressional vote every 2 years

Question 20

Split ticket

Answer 20

Voting for people from different parties (Rep. president with Dem. senator) it is much less common but it is on the rise

Question 21

270

Answer 21

Number of electoral votes needed to win

Question 22

435

Answer 22

Number of members in the house

Question 23

Iowa/New Hampshire

Answer 23

The first caucus and primary

Question 24

Sound bite

Answer 24

Short pieces that media focusses on, they are continually getting shorter and shorter

Question 25

Super Delegates

Answer 25

Nickname for un-pledged delegates in the democratic party

Question 26

General election day

Answer 26

The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November

Question 27

Ballot initiative

Answer 27

citizens can petition to have propositions placed on the ballot to be voted on

Question 28

Majoritarian politics

Answer 28

when our elected leaders do what the majority wants done since the majority of the American people elected them

Question 29

Marxist view

Answer 29

all political struggles are really struggles between a few rich business owners (capitalists) and the mass of relatively poor workers

Question 30

Power Elite Theory

Answer 30

When our elected leaders do what a small group of people called “elites” want done

Question 31

The bureaucratic view

Answer 31

The view that the elites are the longtime members of the federal bureaucracy who implement policy

Question 32

The pluralist view

Answer 32

The elite theory which holds that different groups combine to form a coaltion

Question 33

Stratified or multistage sampling

Answer 33

Taking the same percentage of people from different areas regardless of the population

Question 34

Apportionment

Answer 34

Changing the amount of representatives per state due to the census that occurs every 10 years

Question 35

Bias

Answer 35

To be closed minded or think that only your way is right

Question 36

C Wright Mills

Answer 36

Founder of the power elite theory