Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting. What is significant about public opinion and polling?

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Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting

What is significant about public opinion and polling?

Polling  Sampling  Margin of Error  Questions  Results

Intensity

Latency

Salience

Soclialization

Public Opinion Shapes Policy

Political/Social Awareness  Attentive Public  Nonevoters  Political know-nothings  Part-time citizens (roughly 40 percent)

2000 election

Voting Changes  Origninally left to individual states/property ownership  All white male  Women /Miinorities  18 yrs old.

Voting Rights Act: 1965  Banned literacy tests  Eased registration requirements  Allowed federal registrars where discrimination ignored standards

Voter Registration  Voter registration required to vote (except North Dakota)  Federal law--Cannot stop registration until 30 days before

Motor Voter

General Elections  Elect office holders

Primary Elections

Special Elections

Presidential Elections

Mid Term Elections

Off Year Elections

Political Apathy

Voter Preferences

Candidate Appeal

Issues