1. Our earliest views of political
matters usually come from ..

2. parents

3. All of the following are conservative
religious groups or individuals EXCEPT

4. Al Sharpton.

5. Which group is least likely to support
George W. Bush's handling of the war
in Iraq

6. blacks

7. Church attendance is highest in the

8. south

9. __________ is one measure of a poll's
reliability

10. Sampling error

11. Most national surveys and commercial
polls use samples of _________
individuals to obtain fairly accurate
polling results.

12. 600 to 1,000

13. Why did the Literary Digest fail to
accurately predict the outcome of the
1936 presidential election?

14. It oversampled middle class and
wealthy voters

15. On which of the following questions
would an American be the least likely
to give a response?

16. "How do you think the federal
government should go about
balancing the budget?

17. Which policy area is the president
most likely to have success in
influencing public opinion

18. Foreign affairs

19. In a 2004 survey, what percent of
Americans were unable to identify the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

20. 69%

21. Americans would appear to have the
most difficulty forming opinions about
government policies towards

22. Crisis in darfur

23. The authors of The Federalist
Papers were convinced that

24. all government rests on public opinion

25. The humanitarian nature of which of
the following conflicts helped to
minimize the gender gap regarding
military intervention?

26. Kosovo

27. The office holders who organize
themselves and pursue policy
objectives under a party label are
referred to as the

28. Governmental party

29. In 1832, who was nominated in the
first large national party nominating
convention?

30. Andrew jackson

31. Issue-oriented politics encourages

32. Ticket splitting

33. The gradual change in partisanship in
the South from Democratic to
Republican during the 1990s is an
example of

34. Secular realignment

35. Third-party House candidates are most
likely to emerge if

36. there is close party competition
between the Democrats and
Republicans in the district

37. Who ran under the Bull Moose Party?

38. Theodore Roosevelt

39. Third party candidates are more likely
to emerge under what circumstances

40. All of the above increase the likelihood
of a minor party victory.

41. Funds which can be used for direct
electioneering, but are limited and
regulated are called ___________.

42. Hard money

43. Which of the following think tanks
prides itself on being more scholarly
and less partisan?

44. The Brookings Institution

45. The smallest unit of the party
organization is

46. The precinct

47. Congressional party unity..

48. has increased dramatically since the
1970s

49. A member of which of the following
groups is most likely to be a
Democrat?

50. Working women

51. One particularly influential party-
oriented president was

52. FDR

53. All of the following are examples of
conventional political participation
except

54. protesting

55. Which of the following helps explain
why wealthier citizens are more likely
to vote?

56. Wealthy citizens are more likely to
think that the system works for them

57. Women…

58. currently make up a majority of the
U.S. electorate.

59. A second primary election for the two
candidates who received the greatest
number of votes in the first primary, is
known as a/an

60. A run-off primary

61. In the 2003 California gubernatorial
recall election, Arnold Schwarzenegger
was elected through a

62. recall

63. An election that allows citizens in
some states to propose legislation and
submit it to the voters for popular vote
is known as

64. An initiative

65. Which of the following is a problem
with the congressional district plan to
overhaul the Electoral College

66. It would allow the possibility that the
winner of the popular vote would lose
the election

67. Delegates who come to the
Democratic National Convention by
virtue of their status as elected party
officials are called

68. superdelegates

69. Which of the following trends most
accurately captures the changing
nature of presidential elections?

70. A majority of states use primary
elections rather than caucuses

71. What is the "scare off" effect?

72. High-quality challengers are less likely
to run against an incumbent

73. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

74. All of the above.

75. During the nomination
campaign, party leaders are primarily
concerned with ________, while party
activists are concerned with ________

76. Electability; ideology

77. Who does the bulk of the voter
canvassing for a campaign?

78. volunteers

79. The communications director is
responsible for

80. The candidates overall media strategy

81. The two basic methods of voter
canvass are

82. door-to-door solicitations and phone
banks

83. Which campaign staffer interacts
and communicates with journalists
and provides the media with the
"bad news" of the campaign?

84. Press secretary

85. The process by which a campaign
reaches individual voters, either
door-to-door or over the phone, is
referred to as

86. Voter canvassing

87. In the 1976 debate, President Gerald
R. Ford incorrectly claimed that

88. Poland was not under soviet
domination

89. Which of the following campaigns may
be eligible for public funds

90. Presidential campaigns

91. A majority of PAC contributions go to

92. incumbents

93. What was soft money?

94. a virtually unregulated way for
individuals and political
committees to funnel contributions
of political campaigns through
state and local parties

95. President ________ was the first to
use radio as a medium to connect
with the American publi

96. FDR

97. Which of the following is a wire
service that distributes stories to
newspapers around the world?

98. The associated press

99. Which of the following is a
disadvantage of private ownership
of the media in the United States

100. The media decides what stories it
covers based on what makes the
most money.

101. Why are the broadcast media more
strictly regulated than the print media

102. Broadcast media leases public
airwaves

103. In ________, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that only in rare
circumstances would prior restraint
of the press be permitted

104. New York Times Co. v. U.S

105. Which of the following is an effect
of the Supreme Court's ruling
in New York Times Co. v. Sulliva

106. The press is less worried about
reporting on a candidates character

107. Public opinion is least likely to be
affected by media coverage o

108. US health care policy

109. Which of the following accurately
describes American journalists?

110. Anti-establishment

111. the activities of a group or
organization that seeks to
influence legislation and persuade
political leaders to support the
group's position is referred to as

112. lobbying

113. An interest group whose primary
purpose is promoting the financial
interests of its members is known
as a/an

114. Economic interest group

115. Social capital..

116. Encourages civic virtue

117. According to transactions
theory, interest groups represent

118. elites

119. Religious and ideologically
conservative groups were founded
in response t

120. The success of liberal groups

121. Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition
is an example of what kind of
interest group?

122. Religious group

123. An iron triangle or an issue
network is a symbiotic relationship
between which groups

124. Congress, interest groups, and
bureaucratic agencies

125. The business Democracy, Data, &
Communications (DDC) attempts to

126. Mobilize the grassroots