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What does ideology mean?

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One’s beliefs, opinions, or convictions

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What does conservative mean?

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Belief that protection of freedom is most important
Smaller gov bigger military

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What does liberal mean?

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Belief that equality is universal and it’s the government’s job to protect it

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What does public opinion mean?

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Combination of many individuals’ expressed feelings about government and political issues

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What is a policy?

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A government action or regularion

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Define politics

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Concerned with influencing or guiding government policy

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What is a political party?

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An organization made up of people who share similar ideas about the way a country should be governed

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What is a candidate?

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Person seeking elected office as a government leader

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What is a one-party system?

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All elected officials are from the same party

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What is a two-party system?

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Most elected officials are from either party and elected by majority vote

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What is a multi-party system?

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Three or more parties compete for control of government
Typically elected through plurality not majority
Results in coalition between parties

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Define campaign organizations

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Groups that help get candidates elected
Typically volunteers or low-paid
Non-government staff workers

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Margins of error that are higher than +/- 5% are…

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Unscientific/straw

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Margins of error that are less than +/- 5% are…

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Statistically significant

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Which amendment prohibits denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizens race, color or previous condition of servitude?

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15th amendment

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Which amendment granted women’s suffrage?

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19th amendment

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Which amendment changed the voting age from 21 to 18 during the Vietnam conflict?

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26th amendment

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Define campaign propaganda

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Techniques used to promote a candidate by appealing to voters in varying ways

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What is a challenger?

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Individual running against incumbent in an election

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What is a contested election?

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A special election initiated when the legality or validity of the result of a previous election is challenged by the losing candidate

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What are democrats?

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Major political party that tends to be moderately liberal

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What is the electoral college?

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System of electing the POTUS called for by the Constitution
Winner-take-all system

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What is a general election?

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Election that takes place on the first tuesday after the first monday in november

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What is the incumbent?

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Individual seeking re-election

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What is media bias?

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News reporting that is skewed towards one political philosophy

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What is a moderate?

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Individual who doesn’t hold extreme views on any political issue

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Define nomination

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Act or system of suggesting a person to run for office

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What are the forms of nomination?

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Self-nomination
Petition
Primary
Caucus
Convention

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What is an opinion poll?

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Survey of the public to find out what they’re thinking about key issues or which candidate they’re going to vote for

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What is a plank?

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One issue that a political party stands for

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What is a platform?

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The main issues and ideas that a political party cares most about (collection of planks)

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What is a political caucus?

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Formal meeting of members/officials of a political party to deal with party business

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What is a political compass?

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4-square chart used to show balance between political control and economic control

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What are political interest groups?

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Organizations that work to influence political parties and politicians in favor of the issue or companies they represent

35
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What is a political primary?

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An election where members of one political party are running against each other to be selected to represent that particular party

36
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Anyone can vote in an…

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Open political primary

37
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Only people who are members of a political party can vote in a…

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Closed political primary

38
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What is the political spectrum?

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Scale used to generally illustrate or categorize the role of government

39
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What is a radical?

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Someone far left; in favor of drastically increasing the role of government

40
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Whaat is a reactionary?

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Someone far right; in favor of returning to a previous way of doing things (little government)

41
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What is a recall election?

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Special election where voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his term has ended

42
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When are recall elections typically initiated?

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When sufficient voters sign a petition

43
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What are republicans?

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Members of the G.O.P
Favor traditional values and small government

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What is a run-off election?

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A special election which allows a selection between choices receiving the largest and second largest number of votes cast in the original balloting where the results may have been too close to call or tie

45
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What is split ticket voting?

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Voting for candidates from more than one political party

46
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Define statistically significant

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The likelihood that a result or relationship is caused by something other than mere random chance

47
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What is straight ticket voting?

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Voting only for candidates from one political party

48
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What are third/minor parties?

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Smaller parties
Narrower focus
Rarely win elections
Bring new ideas

49
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What are the voter qualifications?

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1) US citizen
2) 18 years old
3) Official resident of the state you are voting in and register

50
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Define glittering generalities

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Simple, clever slogans that shed positive light and appeal to peoples’ emotions but provide no information

51
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Define card stacking

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Use facts and figures to one side as positive and the other side as negative

52
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Define plain folks

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Send the message that a product or person is just like you

53
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Define transfer technique

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Uses feelings about one thing to get you to feel the same about something else

54
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Define testimonials

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Celebrities or other respected people endorsing or officially supporting a product or idea

55
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Define bandwagon technique

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Creates impression that there is widespread support for something and peer pressure someone to be on the winning team

56
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Define name-calling

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Using negative words and bad names to create fear and dislike for people, ideas, or institutions
Verbal or visual

57
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What are types of ads that use name-calling technique?

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Attack ads and mud-slinging add

58
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What is the purpose of political parties?

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To elect people to office

59
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What groups tend to vote Democratic?

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Non-white
Women
Catholic
Less-affluent
Young
Least and most educated

60
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What groups tend to vote Republican?

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White
Men
Protestant
More affluent
Old
College-educated

61
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What age group is least likely to vote?

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Young

62
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What age group is most likely to vote?

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Old

63
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Third or minor parties are not…

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Widely supported

64
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All of the people entitled to vote in a given election are the…

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Electorate

65
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As a nominating device, a group like-minded people who meet to select the candidates they will support in an upcoming election is called a:

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Caucus

66
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How many electoral votes are there?

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538 (100 in the Senate, 435 in the House, 3 in DC)

67
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How many electoral votes are needed to win?

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270 votes

68
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What are some political socialization agents?

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Family/parents
Friends/peers
Social media
Ethnicity/race
Age
Gender
Religion
Income level

69
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What are some reasons why people don’t vote?

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Waste of time
Busy
Complicated
Polling area not nearby

70
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The political extension of special-interest groups which have a major stake in public policy is called a:

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PACS and SuperPACS

71
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Activities by which group pressures are brought to bear on legislators, the legislative process, and all aspects of the public policy making process is known as:

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Lobbying

72
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Name 3 special interest groups

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NRA - 2nd amendment
AMA - Doctors
ABA - Lawyers

73
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What do interest groups do?

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Pressure congress to pass favorable legislation

74
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When did political parties begin?

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Under Washington

75
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How did political parties begin?

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Adams and Hamilton started them because they were in Washington’s cabinet

76
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What 2010 Supreme Court case changed the rules for the use of private money for political campaigns?

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Citizens United

77
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What is super tuesday?

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The day a lot of states have their primaries

78
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Who are delegates?

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Local party state representatives/officials

79
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What do delegates do?

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Go to convention and announce votes

80
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Who are super delegates?

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Top members of a party

81
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What do super delegates do?

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Represent the party to vote for who they think will win

82
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Why are super delegates not important most of the time?

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By the time of the convention, most have dropped out and the winner is clear

83
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What are 2 reasons why the founding fathers make the electoral college system?

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Didn’t think there would be a national winner
Didn’t trust democracy “mobocracy”

84
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What are caucuses?

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Public votes
People gather in groups and debate who to vote for

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