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

The Bradley effect is a response bias based on

In which curcumstances would the courts find libel?

Which type of media bias is most obvious to academics?

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

How much of the Senate is elected every two year?

What did the Fairness Doctrine attempt to accomplish?

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

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

Why do people complain about news media bias?

First year members of Congress are referred to as

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

Parties generally nominate candidates from which office for president?

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

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

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

A major change in media over the past fifty years is

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

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

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

Which of the following is an example of episodic framing?

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

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

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

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

What unusual step did Oregon take to increase voter registration?

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

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

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

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

Pollsters predicted who would win the presidential race in 2016?

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

What does media sell?

Muckracking occurs when newspapers ___.

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

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

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

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

Polls taken on Election day are known as _____ polls.

Research has shown that reporting on terrorist acts leads to

Where and when do Electoral College electors vote?

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

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

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

Who was president when the FCC repealed the Fairness Doctrine?

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

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

The primary way candidates reach voters is through

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

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

A referendum is not purely direct democracy because the ________.

Why does the United States hold frequent elections?

Local news gets much of its drama from

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

What percentage of the House is elected every two years?

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

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

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

Media coverage of a race tends to ___.

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

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

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

\A conglomerate is a corporation that ________

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

Newspapers during the Revolitionary War period tended to ___.

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

What is the main demographic for talk radio?

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

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

When acting as an agenda setter, the media ___.

On average, women prefer ____________ candidates.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What did the Telecommunications Act of 1996 accomplish?

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

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

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

Facebook is an example of

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

After the Watergate scandal reporters redefined their roles and became

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

Cable programming is often ___.

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

What are midterm elections?

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

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

One of the ways the Internet could enhance democracy is by

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

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

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

The Federal Communications Commission oversees the programming of which entities?

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

How often is the president elected?

Which factor contributes to winning a congressional election?

What was the first state to allow women to voter?

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