GOVT 2305 CH8
The __________ guaranteed suffrage to African American males
Fifteenth Amendment
The __________ requires states to provide all eligible citizens with the opportunity to register to vote when they apply for or renew a driver's license.
National Voter Registration Act of 1993
Which of the following is not an agent of political socialization?
Political party identification
The family is an important agent of political socialization because
a child first sees the political world through the eyes of his or her family.
According to the powerpoint notes, polls that rely on interviewing voters immediately after they have voted (as they are leaving the polling places) are called __________ polls.
exit
When a pollster's results appear to consistently favor one of the two major political parties, polling experts refer to the phenomenon as a
house effect.
A pollster who asks your views regarding rumors about a specific candidate in an interview that lasts less than a minute is probably conducting a(n)__________ poll.
push
A(n) __________ poll is a campaign tactic used to feed false or misleading information to potential voters, under the guise of taking an opinion poll.
push
A sample in which each person within the entire population being polled has an equal chance of being chosen is a __________ sample.
random
The term gender gap
refers to the difference between the percentage of votes cast for a particular candidate by women and the percentage of votes cast for the same candidate by men.
The media have an impact on political socialization. Of the media, the most influential is (are)
television.
Women were granted the right to vote in __________.
1920
In the 2012 presidential elections, Barack Obama won __________ of female voters.
55 percent
In the 2012 presidential elections, __________ of Hispanic voters voted for Barack Obama.
71 percent
In the 2012 presidential elections, __________ of voters who identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual voted for Barack Obama.
76 percent