1. Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting

2. What is significant about public opinion and polling?

3. Polling  Sampling  Margin of Error  Questions  Results

4. Intensity

5. Latency

6. Salience

7. Soclialization

8. Public Opinion Shapes Policy

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

10. 2000 election

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

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

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

14. Motor Voter

15. General Elections  Elect office holders

16. Primary Elections

17. Special Elections

18. Presidential Elections

19. Mid Term Elections

20. Off Year Elections

21. Political Apathy

22. Voter Preferences

23. Candidate Appeal

24. Issues