1. 1101 Section (April 12, 2013)  Attendance Roll Call  Announcement: Add Chapter 6 (public opinion)  Review Voting Models  Textbook Highlights: Voting and Elections  Learning Outcomes  Textbook Highlights: Campaigning for Office  Key Terms  Learning Outcomes  Discussion: Sample opinion polls  Discussion: Gay rights, marijuana laws, immigration as potentially cross-cutting issues

2. Review Voting Models  Normative Model  Friends and Neighbors Theory  Psychological Model (aka Michigan Model, American Voter Model)  Rational Actor Model

3. Voting and Elections (chapter 9)  L02: Discuss the factors that influence voter turnout in the U.S., and compare American voter turnout to that of other countries.

4. Voting and Elections (chapter 9)  L04/Variation: Describe how presidents, senators, and representatives were originally to be elected under the U.S. Constitution. What are the qualifications for holding these offices? How have the manner of electing these offices changed?

5. Campaigning for Office (chapter 10)  Some key terms (from lecture):  Valence Issues v. Positional Issues  Priming effects of campaign  Terms related to campaign finance  Hard money  Soft money  Contribution limits v. disclosure requirements (current rules)current rules  Federal Election Commission  Political action committees  Super PACs  527’s (more information)more information

6. Campaigning for Office (chapter 10)  L02/04/variation: Discuss the role of campaign finance in modern political campaigns. What do we know about campaign contributions? How are contributions regulated? What are the implications of modern campaign finance for democracy?

7. Campaigning for Office (chapter 10)  L05: Describe the general outline of today’s campaign for the presidency, and discuss the impact of the primary system on the outcome of the nomination process.  Don’t confuse electoral college electors with party convention delegates

8. Using Opinion Polls  How much can we learn from a small random sample?  It depends on the sample size. The more people we survey, the more confident we can be that our sample is giving us the right answer.

9. Using Opinion Polls

10. Discussion of Emerging Issues  Most issues viewed as left/right issues, but that’s not always the case  Some areas of current public interest:  Gay rights  Immigration  Marijuana laws  Which of these issues most like to be cross-cutting, potentially reshaping political landscape?