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A sensible way of thinking about how government and politics should be carried out. |
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A set of beliefs that dictate what a person will vote for, advocate for, etc. |
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The idea that every person has the same opportunity to succeed as everyone else. The American Dream, so to speak. |
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The idea that everyone has the same amount of money regardless of what they do. This is generally an economic principle. |
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A belief that each person has an obligation to serve the public in some way. |
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The large amount of people who believe in something but do not express their opinions publicly |
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Certain sets or groups of people. Example: The 18-25 year old demographic. |
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Basically one's class in a society. Upper class, middle class, etc. |
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The differences in opportunities available for a person based on their sex. |
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Open to new ideas and thoughts, tolerant. |
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People who put value in traditional values.
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A small group of people who have a disproportionate amount of power. |
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A certain group of people chosen out of the population to get an idea about public opinion on the issue. |
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An error in statistics where the sample chosen does not necessarily represent the population appropriately. |
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| [image] The principle that all men should be able to vote. |
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Population samples that are usually very diverse. They are used to see the response several demographics have to a sample question. |
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Polls that are designed to sway people into a certain manner of thinking. |
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As things become more popular each individual person is more likely to want those things. |
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An informal method of polling just to get an idea of general thought on a subject. They can be without an honor system, as depicted by the online one shown above. |
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Polls asking how people voted as they are exiting the voting station. |
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Polls taken on a consistent basis to see how public opinion is changing. |
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A question that is trying to skew the answers in one direction. |
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Something that either makes sense in the context given or something that the brain thinks to be true because of the existing context. |
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Different ways of phrasing the same question to bias results? "Do you want more climate change?" Versus "Do you think solar energy is something people should endeavor to use?" |
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The amount that something stands out relative to its environment. |
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states were/are required to offer voter registration services whenever someone got a license. |
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| Help America Vote Act 2002 |
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An act that passed in response to the 2000 presidential election voting controversy. It replaced hole punch and lever based voting and it established an electorate voting commission. |
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A person can not be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or former conditions of servitude. |
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| Nineteenth Amendment 1920 |
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States can not prohibit the right to vote based on the gender of a person. |
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| Twenty Sixth Amendment 1971 |
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The states cannot establish a voting age higher than 18 years old. |
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| Twenty Third Amendment 1961 |
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The residents of Washington DC can vote for the president and the vice-president. |
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| Twenty fourth Amendment 1964 |
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| [image] Congress and the states can not condition the right to vote on a poll tax. |
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Tests that were given to determine whether or not a person would be allowed to vote. They were usually given to African Americans. |
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A tax people had to pay if they wished to vote. This was meant to keep poor black people from voting. |
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| [image] A clause that was made where any person who's grandfather had been able to vote before the civil war did not have to take literacy tests or do poll taxes. |
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It basically made the primary an election within the party where just a certain set of people would vote (white) while the general election would be the only state election. It seems as though it was another move by the democratic party to disenfranchise blacks. |
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A US supreme court case decision that made white primaries illegal. |
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An act meant to enforce the 15th amendment that guaranteed the enfranchisement of racial minorities across the country. |
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People not having suffrage when they arguably should. |
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System where people get to vote in private, who they vote for is their knowledge. Generally this is overseen by the government. |
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Someone fighting for political, social, and/or economic policies/change. |
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When people at first vote seriously and are very considerate but eventually they get lazy and apathetic. |
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