Week 5

Question 1

Pay special attention to the balance – over time – between party insider and party outsider voice/control in the process. ( Nelson chap 7)

Answer 1

Broad historical sweep … nomination becomes more democratic

-What began with a small group of political elites informally agreeing on whose turn it was to reach for the ship of state’s helm has become a complex, highly competitive and demanding process, involving a surfeit of rules, millions of dollars, and many thousands of people.

Question 2

Independent Variables

Answer 2

The things that are doing the predicting

Question 3

Dependent Variable

Answer 3

what you are predicting

Question 4

What were the results in Rice

Answer 4

-Those areas that have received more attention from prospective Republican presidential nominees over time should be more in line with the Republican establishment and less amenable to Trump’s appeals
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-Trump did better in areas previously ignored by potential Republican candidates for the country’s only nationwide office.

-strong evidence in support of the argument that Trump did better in areas previously ignored by candidates for the Republican presidential nomination.

Question 5

What was Rice measuring

Answer 5

-The dependent variable is Donald Trump’s county-level share of the vote.
-The independent variable of primary interest is the number of visits to

Question 6

Control variable

Answer 6

things held constant because
they might affect the results