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Elections
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Polling
Mass Media
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2. Raiding, Responsive to party and thoughtful votes are reasons people support a [Blank] Primary

3. What is a
Closed Primary

4. Give one of two reasons people oppose a Closed Primary

5. Fear of exposing voters
What are
Fear of exposing voters
Exclude Independents

6. Give 3 of the 5 ways a candidate can be nominated.

7. What are:
Self Announcement
Caucus
Convention
Direct Primary
Petition

8. A regularly scheduled election at which voters make the final selection of office holders

9. What is a general election

10. What is why the General Election is on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November

11. What is a
Runoff Primary

12. So that it does not occur on a payday or a Sunday.

13. What is why the General Election is on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November

14. Voting by mail

15. What is Absentee Voting

16. Printed at public expense, list all names of all candidates, only given at polls, and marked in secret.

17. What is an Australian Ballot

18. Give 3 of the 5 main sources of campaign funds in American Politics

19. Wealthy Individuals/Families Candidates (Incumbents or not) PAC groups
What are:
Small contributors
Wealthy Individuals/Families
Candidates (Incumbents or not)
PAC groups
Temporary Organizations (formed for Immediate purpose of campaigns)

20. Disclosure of finances, limits of campaign contributions, limits of expenditure, and providing public funding for parts of the presidential election process fall under this Commision.

21. Federal Election Commission
What is the FEC
Federal Election Commission

22. For what reason are people’s opinions on rock groups, sports teams, food, and clothing style are not example of public opinion.

23. What is those subjects have nothing to do with politics or government

24. List 3 of the 6 agents of political socialization.

25. What are:
Family
Schools
The Media
Peer Groups
Opinion Leaders
Historic Events

26. This the term used when you are setting the parameters on the population you wish to poll.

27. What is Defining the Universe

28. Give 3 of the 4 types of controlled polling given by your book?

29. What are phone, letter, online, and door-to-door polling

30. Simply asking the same question to a large number individuals is called this.

31. What is a
Straw Vote Poll

32. 3 of the 4 mediums of Mass Media

33. What are television, newspapers, radio and magazines
(soon the Internet)

34. A snappy report that can be aied in 30-45 seconds

35. What is a “sound bite.”

36. Term used to describe societal problems that political leaders and general public agree upon.

37. What is Public Agenda

38. There are one of these in 98% of all households in America
There are one of these in 98% of all households in America. In fact, more homes have one of these, than have indoor plumbing

39. What is a television

40. Other than the Public Agenda, Mass Media plays a role in this political process.

41. What is Electoral Politics

42. The acronym BCRA stands for this.

43. What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reformation Act

44. Every campaign needs this more than anything else.

45. What is Money

46. Suffrage means this.

47. What is the Right to Vote

48. Name the two first parties of the United States of America

49. What are the Federalists and the Democrats

50. Best Quarterback in the History of Football.

51. Who is Joe Montana