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| A "minority majority" refers to a situation, likely to begin in the mid-twenty-firs century, in which non-Hispanic whites will represent a minority of the US population and minority groups together will represent a majority. |
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| Citizens over 65 comprise the fastest growing age group in the United States. |
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| As people become more socialized with age, their political orientations grow weaker and are more subject to change. |
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| Decades of survey data show that more Americans choose the ideological label of liberal conservative. |
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| Americans tend to oppose the idea of big government in theory, but favor it in practice. |
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| A media event is staged for the purpose of being covered. |
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| The relatively cozy relationship that existed between politicians and the press during the twentieth century lasted until the Vietnam Water and Watergate. |
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| Most studies of media coverage of news, including news about the presidency, have revealed a systematic liberal bias. |
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| In focusing public attention on particular events, the media influence the criteria by which the public evaluates political leaders. |
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| Increasing public attention to specific problems is a core feature of the media's scorekeeping power. |
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| The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and others involved in politics are collectively known as the policy agenda. |
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| The Internet is more purposive than TV; that is, if they are trying to avoid news, people are less likely to run across political news online than they did when there were just three dominant networks. |
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| As every new policy is met with media criticism, constraints are placed on the scope of what government can do. |
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| From watching the political ads in class, it is apparent that ads in recent presidential campaigns differ little from campaign ads run in the 1950s. |
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| During modern campaigns, a majority of presidential spending is devoted to TV ads. |
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| Advertising revenue for online editions of print newspapers has proven to be a solid source of income and support, making up more than 50 percent of newspapers' total take from advertising. |
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| Until the early twentieth century, American political parties selected and nominated candidates for political office with little input from the voters. |
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| According to a figure in your textbook, Americans perceive that the Republican and Democratic parties are fairly close to the ideological center, but still distinct from one another. |
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| The most successful parties throughout American history have been those parties willing to adopt unconventional views. |
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| A political party organization that relies on material inducements, such as patronage, to win votes and to govern is a party machine. |
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| Open primaries allow voters to select which of the two major-party primary contests they want to participate in. |
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| Research suggests that the vast majority of party platform promises are never actually fulfilled. |
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| Superdelegates are the supreme power within each of the parties. |
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| A meeting of all state party leaders for selecting delegates to the national party convention is called a primary. |
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| Primaries emerged through reform efforts that sought to take nominations out of the hands of party bosses. |
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| The significance of the Supreme Court decision on Buckley v. Valeo is that it upheld restrictions on the amount of money an individual could contribute to his or her own campaign. |
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| Voter turnout in state and national elections increased significantly after Congress passed the Motor Voter Act of 1993. |
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| Older Americans are more likely to vote than are younger Americans. |
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| Women are more likely to vote than men. |
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| It is possible for the Electoral College to choose a president who did not win a majority of the popular vote. |
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| If no candidate receives a majority of votes in the Electoral College, than the election is thrown to the Senate for a vote. |
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| If a presidential election is decided by the House, each state delegation gets one vote. |
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| Interest groups tend to be policy specialists, political parties are policy generalists. |
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| The bigger the group, the more serious the free-rider problem. |
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| Clean air is an example of a collective or public good. |
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| Selective benefits are one way for large groups to overcome Olson's law of large groups. |
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| American unions have been strong supporters of right-to-work laws. |
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| The growth in the scope of government is partially responsible for the proliferation of interest groups. |
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| The US House of Representatives is descripitvely representative of the US population. |
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| There is a greater likelihood of competition in open seat elections. |
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| The US House and Senate may pass similar, but different bills and the President is able to choose which to sign into law. |
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| Political parties in the US House and Senate have become more polarized over the last three decades. |
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| Contemporary presidents have more presidential power than the Constitution suggests. |
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