Test #3

Question 1

When do you friends shape your beliefs the most

Answer 1

Middle school/ high school

Question 2

Which is the best predictor of what someone’s opinion will be about an issue, candidate or political party?

Answer 2

Race

Question 3

A question on a poll that pushes you toward one candidate or away from another is called a

Answer 3

Push poll

Question 4

If you let respondents choose to be in your sample, you are committing what polling error?

Answer 4

Self-selection

Question 5

Which is the term for the process through which you get your beliefs and values about politics?

Answer 5

Political socialization

Question 6

Remember stratified sample and why it is better? How do you use this method of sampling?

Answer 6

look at the demographic population and weight them in your sample

Question 7

Why is it so hard for minor/third parties to get their candidates elected?

Answer 7

Winner take all system
Public campaign financing rules
The Electoral college

Question 8

Political parties exist in gov but they also exist

Answer 8

in the electorate, which is the voters who consider themselves members

Question 9

Aiding presidential campaigns and conducting party-building activities is the job of whom?

Answer 9

the national party committees

Question 10

If someone identifies as a woman of color, which political party are they most likely to vote for?

Answer 10

Democrats

Question 11

If someone identifies as a white male, which political party are they most likely to vote for?

Answer 11

Republicans

Question 12

Which is most effective in getting people to the polls

Answer 12

Political parties

Question 13

Which pair of court cases equated money with speech?

Answer 13

McCutcheon and Citizens United

Question 14

Which court case said politicians can spend as much of their own money as they want to try to get elected?

Answer 14

Buckley v Valeo

Question 15

Before 12th Amendment, the President and VP could be elected from opposite parties

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What is front loading and who does it benefit?

Answer 16

State tend to pick the earliest primary date possible; front runners

Question 17

Which rule for media companies says you have to give both sides the same amount of time to speak or advertise?

Answer 17

Equal time rule

Question 18

Who regulates television and airways because they are a public space

Answer 18

The government through the FCC

Question 19

Which one allowed for more consolidated corporate ownership of media?

Answer 19

Telecommunications Act of 1996

Question 20

Which method of citing a source says u may reveal nothing about where your info came from (you say, a source said)

Answer 20

On deep background

Question 21

Has out trust in the media increased or decreased in the last 50 years?

Answer 21

Decreased

Question 22

Which kind of brief does an interest group file to the Supreme Court, to show their analysis and side of a case

Answer 22

Amicus curiae

Question 23

Which concept explains how people reap the benefits of others actions, though they did nothing to earn these benefits?

Answer 23

Free rider problem

Question 24

Which act banned gifts to public officials and put into place tougher disclosure requirements for lobbyists?

Answer 24

Honest Leadership and Open Government Act

Question 25

If a senator already support the NRA, what else may a lobbyist for this interest group provide for them legally

Answer 25

Info on policies up for debate or votes

Question 26

We don't actually elect the president. Instead, a candidate must win 270 ______ ______ votes.

Answer 26

Electoral college

Question 27

If we didn't have to work on Election Day because it was a ______, more people would probably vote.

Answer 27

Holiday

Question 28

Prof. McClain is a huge nerd and loves to watch_____, because it is the most unfiltered coverage of what Congress is up to every day.

Answer 28

CSPAN

Question 29

This kind of voting, which means members of Congress vote the way their party tells them to, whether or not it's what they might personally want to do, had increased a ton in the last 20 years.

Answer 29

Partyline

Question 30

Sadly, only about 55% of Americans choose to ____ in presidential elections.

Answer 30

Vote

Question 31

When you leave homeless and poor people out of your sample for your poll, you have made a _____ error.

Answer 31

Sampling

Question 32

The democratic and republican national ________ are responsible for giving us their vision, so that we may decide which party we identify with.

Answer 32

Committees

Question 33

When a candidate wins an election, they claim a ____, or that since they won, they now get to carry out their (and their party's) agenda.

Answer 33

Mandate

Question 34

The AARP is an example of this type of interest group, which is very well-organized and thus very influential.

Answer 34

Economic

Question 35

_____ polls are when pollsters stand outside polling places and ask people who are leaving who they voted for after they've voted.

Answer 35

Exit

Question 36

When Joe Biden talks to reporters (and us) directly, he is doing a press ______.

Answer 36

Conference

Question 37

People who follow this religion are more likely to vote for Democrats.

Answer 37

Judaism

Question 38

When a representative from the NRA talks to members of Congress about supporting gun rights and the 2nd amendment, they are doing what?

Answer 38

Lobbying

Question 39

The ______ of media ownership is a huge problem for being able to get fair and balanced news reporting.

Answer 39

Consolidation

Question 40

The political parties are allowed to change their _____ during their national party conventions. This is a list of issues and their stances on them.

Answer 40

Platform

Question 41

Political knowledge and political participation have a _____ relationship. When you know more, you are more likely to vote.

Answer 41

Reciprocal

Question 42

one measure of accuracy of a poll; below 4% is considered good.

Answer 42

Margin of error

Question 43

This is also known as a media effect and happens when the media gets to decide for us what is important enough to report on.

Answer 43

Agenda setting

Question 44

Online voting would be so awesome, but there are some pretty major ______ concerns.

Answer 44

Security

Question 45

This news channel is for Spanish speakers, and is a great example of narrowcasting.

Answer 45

Telemundo

Question 46

How many years must you wait to walk through the revolving door?

Answer 46

Two

Question 47

Union membership has _____ over the last 20 years.

Answer 47

Declined

Question 48

In 1932, the election of FDR is what political scientists call a _____ election, because there was a big party realignment around the issue of the state of the economy and the role of the government in economic matters.

Answer 48

Critical

Question 49

What is FEC?

Answer 49

Federal Election Commission, which is an independent federal agency, created to enforce nation's election laws

Question 50

BRCA or McCain Feingold

Answer 50

Included a new set of campaign finance regulations: - Regulated political ads and funding. - Set hard limits on campaign contributions from a number of sources

Question 51

Citizens United v FEC

Answer 51

The SC said the BRCA's ban on electioneering communications made by corporations was unconstitutional Corps and unions have now as much power and right to free speech as an individual

Question 52

McCutcheon v FEC

Answer 52

The SC struck down the aggregate limits on the amount of $$$ individuals may contribute to all federal candidates, parties and PACs combined Paved the way for increased influence of individual donors

Question 53

1996 Telecommunications Act

Answer 53

Deregulated the whole segments of the electronic media, so it was supposed to offer people better media services Allowed companies to take over and create multi-media approach to communicating info and entertainment.

Question 54

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Answer 54

regulates interstate and international communications through cable, radio, television, satellite and wire

Question 55

Agenda setting

Answer 55

The power of media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems

Question 56

Collective goods

Answer 56

We all get these things, yet not all people donate for them.

Question 57

Honest Leadership and Open Government Act

Answer 57

Banned gifts and honoraria to members of Congress and their staff from lobbyists Tougher disclosure requirements of reporting money that u are paid as lobbyist and money u spend on members of Congress Longer time limits moving from the fed gov to private lobbying sector