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| People form _________ through the process of political socialization. |
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| ______________ is the learning process by which most people get their political attitudes, opinions, beliefs and knowledge |
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| ___________ are Factors in one's life that leads one to vote one way or another. |
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| Agents of Political Socialization |
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| The largest agent of political socialization is _______________. |
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| ______________ is a set of political beliefs that includes the advocacy of active government in helping individuals. |
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A _______________ would advocate:
- Intervention to improve quality of life and to protect civil rights
- Redistribution of wealth |
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| ________________ is a set of beliefs that includes a limited role for the national government in helping individuals |
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A ___________________ would advocate:
- Support of traditional values and lifestyles
- Cautious toward change
- Economic self determination |
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| _______________ consist of the political center. |
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| __________________ is a set of political beliefs that focuses on individual liberties, protection from the government, and is primarily fiscally conservative while being primarily socially liberal |
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-Party Identification
-Perception of the Candidates
-Policy Choices
-These factors determine __________ |
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| Why People Vote as They Do After they are politically socialized |
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| The largest factor in determining how one votes after they are politically socialized is ____________. |
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| A ___________ is a snapshot of how people feel at the time of the poll |
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- Straw polls
- Random sample
- Exit Polls
- Push Polls
- These are used as _________________. |
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| ways one gets a sample of public opinion. |
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| A ___________ is the most accurate way to get a sample of public opinion. |
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| A random sample showing no bias in poll question |
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| A ____________ is the difference between what the sample results reveal and what the true results would have been if the total possible relevant population was polled. |
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| A ______________ refers to the people selected to represent the population that is being surveyed. |
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| It depends on the sample size and the number sampled. |
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| A ________________ is a political campaign technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll. |
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| What is the most important demographic factor in likely voters? |
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| Minorities are __________ in likely voter polls |
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| ______________ help determine public opinion. |
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| A medium transmits content |
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- Television
- Newspapers
- Movies
- Internet
- Radio
- These are examples of ________________. |
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- Entertainment Shows
- News Channels
- Debate Shows
- These are examples of ________________ in the media. |
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- Current Information
- Influencing Political Leaders
- These are examples of _______________ in the media. |
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- Round the clock news
- Diversity of news sources
- Blogs (web logs)
- These are examples of the ______________ in the media? |
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- Fahrenheit 911
- Flight 93
These are examples of ________________ in the Media. |
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- Talk Radio
- News on the radio
These are examples of ________________ in the Media. |
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- Less range of views and exchange of ideas
- Corporate pressure to avoid topics that would impact on corporate interests
- Financial pressure to reduce the quality of news coverage.
- These are examples of _____________. |
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| the Impacts of Concentration of Media Outlets |
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| A _______________ is when the media and politicians use each other to mutual advantage |
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| A ____________ is when the media and politicians fight each other. |
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| Websites, Newspapers, Talk Radio, Movies, Books are __________ to the mainstream media. |
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| What would be the effect on politics if there were no electronic media, just newspapers and magazines? |
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| Less range of view an ideas |
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| The media ________________ given George W. Bush an easy ride |
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| Our local media displays bias by ________________. |
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| Inserting popular local opinion in the coverage it presents |
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| The news media could make a greater contribution to American democracy? |
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| by doing a better job at presenting news objectively |
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| A powerful way Bill Clinton would display emotion publicly is when he would ___________. |
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| The media as an Industry is changing through __________. |
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| new technology and an integration to electronic media |
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| Politicians and media react towards one another through _______________. |
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| a series of symbiotic relationships, adversarial relationships, or a combination of the two |
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| Due to ______ there is a Less range of views and exchange of ideas in the media. |
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| Media outlets are often corporations and being such they have _______________ to present news in a relevant way to their base. |
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| financial and corporate pressure |
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| There is _________ to reduce the quality of news coverage in the media because the corporations who own some outlets want to keep the demographic they have. |
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| _________ describes the effect that is happening to large media corporations now that news can be delivered from a myriad of sources. |
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| __________ is another term used for atomization of the media. |
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| The _______ media affected Bush in the 2004 presidential Debates. |
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| The media thought that Bush was wearing a ______________ during the foreign policy debate during the 2004 election. |
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| wire underneath his jacket to get answers offstage |
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| Media outlets like _________________ have atomized the media and provided and outlet for anyone with a camera to offer political opinion. |
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- Press conferences, interviews, leaks, media events
- School closure debate
- Regurgitation of talking points
- These are examples of ______________. |
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| symbiotic relationships between the media and president |
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- Negative news coverage of Iraq rather than focusing on positive developments
- “No journalism is worth doing unless it unseats the mighty” as an attitude of some reporters
- These are examples of _______________. |
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| adversarial relationships between the media and president |
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| A _________________ is when the press gets a story or information from an unnamed source with a job that helps give inside information not that is not officially given to the media. |
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| What happened when Trent Lott when he supported the George Bush's immigration bill? |
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| He was hammered from the left and the right. |
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| The Pew Research Center shows that Young people get their information primarily from ________________. |
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| the internet and television |
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| _____________ Succeeded in managing the news better than any other administration |
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| _______________ was highly visible to the media but not very accessible? |
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| ______________ Tried to focus on an issue or highlight a message, but often got bogged down in policy specifics. |
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| _____________ Didn' talk well; stumbled; made up words; lost train of thought when speaking publicly. |
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| Bush did talk well on the topic of ________________. |
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| ___________ committees try to use media to influence public opinion |
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| _______________ shun media attention |
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| Justices are _______________ from legitimate investigation and excessive scrutiny |
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| Some say that _______________ are businesses and to retain their customers, they must reflect the mainstream of America |
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| The _____________ are used by the media to undercut politicians such as saying “He conceded” rather than “He said”; “Her weak response” rather than “Her response” |
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| _______________ shape the media’s presentation of the news |
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| The pressure to make a profit and the need to attract an audience |
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| The Pew Research Center shows that older people get their information primarily from ________________. |
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| An example of the agent of political socialization of ___________________ would be 9/11. |
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| An example of the agent of political socialization of _________________ would be losing one's job. |
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| An example of the agent of political socialization of _________________ would be a new Sean Hannity book. |
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| An example of the agent of political socialization of _________________ would be a speech made by Sarah Palin. |
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| An example of the agent of political socialization of ________________ would be Young Americans for Liberty. (A Student Libertarian Group) |
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| An example of the agent of political socialization of _________________ would be a high school diploma. |
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| School and Educational Attainment |
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| An example of the agent of political socialization of _________________ would be the issue of Gay Marriage. |
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| Older people vote ________________ than younger people. |
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| Those who are less wealthy people vote ______________ than those who are more wealthy. |
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| ________________ is used by candidates to reveal something that may weaken them in the election in their own way to prevent their opposition from using it against them. |
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| The relationship between Ann Coulter and John Edwards is a _____________ relationship. |
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| symbiotic and adversarial |
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| The final exam is _____________. |
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| Thursday, December 9, at 4pm |
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| A candidate is nominated by _______________. |
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| either a party nominating convention or a meeting of party delegates held by party leaders |
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| A meeting of members of a political party or subgroup to coordinate members' actions, choose group policy, or nominate candidates for various offices is called a ______________. |
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| A election in which voters select candidates for a subsequent election is called a ___________. |
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| __________ refers to the rush to try and have a state's primary held early so the result will have a bigger impact |
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| A preliminary election in which a party's candidates for public office are nominated by direct vote of the people is a _________. |
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| A ________________ is a primary in which the candidate from that one party is selected from others in that party to run in an upcoming election. |
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| A _________________ is a primary in which you ask for a republican or a democrat ballot when voting. |
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| A ________________ is a primary in which all candidates run and the top two vote-getters run for the office no matter what their party affiliations are. |
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| Investigation of an opponent's background the purpose of exploiting weaknesses or undermining credibility is called _____________. |
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| Wedge issues are controversial matters _________________. |
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| that one party uses to split voters in the other party |
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| ______________ voting occurs when people base their voting decisions on well-informed opinions and consideration of the future consequences of their votes. |
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| The single biggest factor accounting for how people decide to vote is ________________. |
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| Typically the three important tasks of the presidential convention are to pick the presidential candidate, ____________________. |
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| select the vice presidential candidate, and write the party's platform |
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| Citizens’ feelings of effectiveness in political affairs is called _____________. |
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| In recent presidential elections, voter turnout has been __________________. |
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| A valence issue is an issue __________________. |
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| on which most voters and candidates share the same position |
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| Politicians probably won't pass major electoral reforms that might increase participation, because current politicians _________________. |
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| won in the current system and are concerned about whom the beneficiaries of such changes might be |
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| ______________ determines how delegates are distributed by the primaries |
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| The term "convention bump" refers to ________________. |
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| the opinion poll spike that most candidates enjoy immediately after the convention |
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| A plebiscite is _______________________. |
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| a popular vote on national policy issues |
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| Regarding the impact of the public in American national decision-making, the founders wanted ________________________. |
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| a system legitimated by the public but also protected from the possible dangers of the public's power |
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| ______________ is the process by which majority opinion becomes exaggerated because minorities do not feel comfortable speaking out in opposition. |
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| Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States ranks __________________ in voter participation. |
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| The gender gap is especially large on issues of _____________________________. |
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| The danger of majority tyranny in a democracy most likely would result from _______________________________. |
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| majority rule without the tempering influence of debate and discussion |
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| One concern about question wording in polls is that the person being sampled will be unfamiliar with a subject and thereby ________________________________. |
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| give responses based on cues picked up from the context of the interview or the question |
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| Regarding tolerance, Americans are generally ____________________________. |
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| supportive of general issues such as free speech but less supportive when asked to extend rights to unpopular groups |
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| One advantage of direct contact between elected officials and the public versus the use of public opinion polls is that direct contact ____________________________________. |
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| provides more representative samples of public opinion |
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| The relationship between sample size and sampling error is ______________________. |
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| the larger the sample, the smaller will be the sampling error |
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