Unit 2 Plano Terms Part 1

Question 1

Absentee voting

Answer 1

Provisions of state laws or constitutions that enable qualified voters to cast their ballots in an election without going to the polls on election day. Person who expects to be unable to vote on election day obtains the ballot with a specified period preceding the election, marks it, and returns the sealed ballot to the proper official
Fraudulent use continues to be a difficult problem in administrating absentee voting

Question 2

Australian ballot

Answer 2

Secret ballot prepared, distributed, and tabulated by government officials at public expense. Voting machines or mechanical adaptions of the Australian ballot

Question 3

Baby boomers

Answer 3

Name used to describe the many millions of babies born between 1946 in 1964
“Make love, not war”
The Beatles

Question 4

Disfranchise

Answer 4

Taking away the right to vote. People may be deprived of their franchise or vote if they lose their citizenship, if they failed to register when required, or if they’re convicted of certain crimes. Many people are disfranchised temporarily when they move, either within the state or from state to state, until they established new residence. Voters may also be wholly or partially disfranchise indirectly as a result of dishonesty in ballot counts or through political manipulation, such as gerrymandering.

Question 5

Elite

Answer 5

People who exercise a majority influence on, or control the making of, political, economic, and social decisions. Elites achieve their power position through wealth, family status, caste systems, or intellectual superiority. Elites constitute the “power structure” or “establishment” of local and national communities.
An elite group may hold power openly and officially or may exercise control over those in authority

Question 6

Independent

Answer 6

A voter who disregards party affiliation of candidates running for elective office and cast a ballot for the “best person” or on the basis of issues
Ross Perot

Question 7

Key election factors: class

Answer 7

Classification of people into various socioeconomic and political group for the purpose of analysis and evaluation

Question 8

Key election factors: Ethnic politics

Answer 8

Political activity carried on by people who belong to the same cultural, racial, religious, national origin, or linguistic group.
Substantial impact on political outcomes

Question 9

Key election factors: gender politics

Answer 9

The role of men and women, especially women, and developing positions as a group on political issues, candidates, and other forms of political activity. Polls tend to demonstrate the differences between men and women in things political. Women have been an active political force since they successfully agitated for the right to vote and achieved the adoption of the 19th amendment in 1920. As a result, men also became an identifiable political force, with some radical individuals agitating against women’s rights.

Question 10

Key election factors: generational politics

Answer 10

The determination of an individual’s political orientation because of his or her age. Generational politics involves similar attitudes and actions in the political milieu by covert groups of youths, middle agers, and the elderly.

Question 11

Key election factors: population/powershifts

Answer 11

Profound changes in political power that have occurred as substantial segments of the population have shifted from the North and the East to the coastal and southwestern states. Three states-California, Texas, and Florida-Have benefitted most politically from these population movements

Question 12

Key election factors: race

Answer 12

The impact of race in making voting decisions and in determining the outcome of elections. For blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and other minority racial groups, voting is largely a group experience. Although blacks are the largest minority group, Hispanics, or Chicanos, are increasing at a faster rate and, early in the 21st-century, will likely pass Blacks on potential voting strength. The rapid rate of increase is the result of a high birth rate and a continuing immigration, both legal and illegal.

Question 13

Mass media

Answer 13

The technical means of communication with millions of people, exemplified by television, radio, newspapers, motion pictures, magazines, periodicals, and Internet sources. Television, in particular, is used with increasing impact to build on “image campaign” in which special techniques (contrived situations, spot announcements, editing a video tapes, and the like) are used to achieve short-term shifts in voter behavior

Question 14

Poll

Answer 14

An attempt to determine public opinion concerning issues or to forecast election

Question 15

Poll sample

Answer 15

A selected representative portion of a larger population for the purpose of determining through extrapolation the views, actions, or intentions of that population. Random samples, in which each person who is a member of the population being surveyed has an equal chance of being selected for the samples, regarded as the best scientific approach. Random sampling is used in most public opinion polling.

Question 16

Public opinion

Answer 16

An aggregate of individual views, attitudes or beliefs shared by a portion of the community. No single public opinion in the sense of a general will exists; rather, a number of publics hold various opinions on a host of issues.

Question 17

Voter turnout

Answer 17

Number of voters to actually participate in an election compared to the total number were eligible to vote in the election. Voter turnout tends to be higher in presidential elections than an off year elections, in national elections than in state and local contest, and in general over primary or special elections. Other factors that may influence the size of a voter turnout include geography, the type of election, and electoral factors.

Question 18

Voting rights Act

Answer 18

Major law enacted by Congress in 1965 and renewed and expanded in 1970, 1975, in 1982 to eliminate restrictions on voting I have been used to discriminate against blacks and other minority groups. A major provision of the 1965 at suspended the use of literacy and other test used to discriminate.
Other provisions
-Lowered voting age from 21 to 18
-Uniform national rules for absentee registration and voting in presidential elections

Question 19

Public opinion: foreign-policy

Answer 19

Less concerned with terrorism, and more concerned with the rise of Asia and problems Syria.
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had not made United States safer from terrorism, and 52% now see Asia is more important to United States and Europe.
52% of people between ages of 18 and 29 said the United States should stay out of world affairs

Question 20

Public opinion: gun control

Answer 20

47% said it was more important to control gun ownership, while 46% said it was more important check the rights of Americans to own guns. Shooting caused little changes. Controlling gun ownershipj has decreased while protecting the rights of Americans to own guns has increased. Became a partisan public opinion

Question 21

Public opinion: women in combat

Answer 21

66% of all American support while 26% oppose. Democratics independents and republicans all have a majority support but Democrats have the greatest majority

Question 22

Public opinion: government spending

Answer 22

More than 60% want to cut spending while less than 20% want to increase spending