1. No. 38, The Responsible Electorate
What feeling or attitude does this article express? Is it positive, negative? A call to action? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
What is the main idea or topic of this article? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
“For glaring obvious reason, electoral victory cannot be regarded as necessarily a popular ratification of a candidate’s outlook.” What is the author trying to express in this statement? What is your evidence?
The author refers to the “echo chamber” several times in the text. What is he referencing when he mentions the “echo chamber”? What is your proof?
“…The picture of the voter that emerges from a combination of the folklore of practical politics and the findings of the new electoral studies is not a pretty one.” What is the author discussing here? What is your evidence?