POLI 1 - Exam 2 Study Q's (Krapf)

___ refers to the spike in the polls that follows an event.

What term describes the tendency among a small group of decision makers to converge on a shared set of views?

When only party members can cast a vote in the primary it is known as a(n)

How much can one individual contribute to an old fashioned PAC?

What unusual step did Oregon take to increase voter registration?

Where and when do Electoral College electors vote?

The corporate setting helps blur the line between news, politics, and entertainment, a phenomenon now described as

Muckracking occurs when newspapers ___.

Which of the following is an example of episodic framing?

Newspapers during the Revolitionary War period tended to ___.

___ refers to running for office by attacking the opponent. An unpopular tactic that is, nevertheless, very effective.

Which of the following is NOT considered “new media"?

What was the first state to allow women to voter?

Those elected with mandates can experience __ getting legislation passed in their claimed policy area

The United States was the ___ nation to choose its chief executive by popular election.

What did the Fairness Doctrine attempt to accomplish?

What is the main demographic for talk radio?

When a party has members vote unofficially to help determine who would win a primary it is known as a _____ poll.

If you wanted to calculate if the US is suffering from low voter turnout, ___ population would yield the lowest turnout

In 1995, the Supreme Court ruled that ___ could not be the predominant factor in creating congressional districts.

A state might hold a primary instead of a caucus because a primary is ________.

Which of the following is a reason to make voter registration more difficult?

In which type of election are you most likely to see coattail effects?

What characterizes those most likely to vote in the next election?

The US system sets strict limits on individual donations: no one may contribute more than __ to any individual candidate

Parties generally nominate candidates from which office for president?

______ is all the ways people get information about politics and the wider world.

When any eligible voter can vote in a primary it is known as a(n)

According to research, why might a woman decide not to run for office?

___ refers to the tendency for members of Congress to win reelection in overwhelming numbers.

Why does the United States hold frequent elections?

Which of the following is a reasonable exception to the Freedom of Information Act?

The Federal Communications Commission oversees the programming of which entities?

Which event normally has the effect of creating an increase in the poll numbers for a presidential candidate?

Who was president when the FCC repealed the Fairness Doctrine?

Radio quiz show and comedy shows were most popular in the ___.

Local news gets much of its drama from

Which factor contributes to winning a congressional election?

The primary way candidates reach voters is through

A local station that broadcasts national network programming is called a(an) ________ station

Research has shown that reporting on terrorist acts leads to

What are midterm elections?

One of the ways the Internet could enhance democracy is by

A sampling _______ is defined as a designated group of people from whom a set of poll respondents is randomly selected.

In the last forty midterm elections the president's party picked up seats in Congress how many times?

Why do Belgium, Turkey, and Australia have higher voter turnout rates than the United States?

In media jargon, what is a small clip from a candidate speech referred to as?

Which of the following makes it easy for a citizen to register to vote?

United States senators' term is ___ years; that's one of the ___ elected terms in the world.

What does media sell?

___ refers to a system under which the winning candidate receives all the delegates for that state.

After the Watergate scandal reporters redefined their roles and became

What classic “rule of thumb” guides local TV news?

What percentage of the House is elected every two years?

What government agency was created in the FDR administration to referee the airwaves?

Although crime is _____, media coverage has audiences believing crime is _____.

Americans vote more often and for more officers ___ than the people of almost any other nation.

The Bradley effect is a response bias based on

During the 1930s, who delivered a weekly radio address known as the “Fireside Chat”?

Candidates running in the primary are talking to more _____ voters and then to more _____ voters in the general election

First year members of Congress are referred to as

Candidates for national office (presidency and Congress) spent more than ___ on their campaigns in 2016.

How much of the Senate is elected every two year?

The Supreme Court determined that the right of the press to print classified material ___.

Media coverage of a race tends to ___.

News media is likely to pitch a story toward which political slant?

A major change in media over the past fifty years is

Polls taken on Election day are known as _____ polls.

Facebook is an example of

Which two networks monopolized the television news business during the 1960s and 1970s?

_________ bias is the tendency of poll respondents to misstate their views, frequently to avoid “shameful” opinions.

When acting as an agenda setter, the media ___.

Which of the following is not a step in the initiative process?

Traditionally, which party has adhered to the winner-take-all system?

Traditionally, which party has adhered to the proportional representation system?

Which of the following citizens is most likely to run for office?

Which factor is most likely to lead to the incumbency advantage for a candidate?

It takes broad coverage with an unambiguous message to change peoples minds. What does the textbook call this phenomenon

\A conglomerate is a corporation that ________

Which media form is likely to include a variety of viewpoints?

What did the Telecommunications Act of 1996 accomplish?

Joe votes for every challenger on the ballot, because he feels the president and Congress arent doing enough to help him

In order for public opinion to guide government, according to the authors, how many conditions must be met?

One of the most direct ways the media affects politics is via its __________ role.

The United States does not typically rely on which model of media organization?

In which curcumstances would the courts find libel?

____ is when people don't vote because they saw polls indicating their candidate was in the lead, only for them to lose

How often is the president elected?

Why do people complain about news media bias?

How many Americans did NOT vote in the 2016 presidential race?

Which group is most likely to claim the media is biased?

Sound bites have gone from over _____ seconds to under _____ seconds.

A referendum is not purely direct democracy because the ________.

Television news became a regular deature during ___ due to the public's demand for ___ to explain current events,

A system of ___ allocates delegates based on the proportion of the vote a candidate wins.

Cable programming is often ___.

On average, women prefer ____________ candidates.

In the 1830s, ______ became the first mass media.

Which type of media bias is most obvious to academics?

Pollsters predicted who would win the presidential race in 2016?