Entrance Polls Ap Gov Definition

Question: exit poll (376)

Answer: a poll of people leaving a polling place, asking how they voted.

i.e. election exit polls are polls taken immediately after they have exited polling stations.

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Question: caucus (376)

Answer: a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy.

i.e. Iowa caucus, "an event where voters from all of 1,774 Iowa voting precincts meet to elect delegates to the county conventions."

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Question: entrance poll (376)

Answer: a poll taken before voters have cast their votes at polling stations.

i.e. similar to public opinion polls, meant to gauge public opinion on who they voted for and why .
-younger voters were found more likely to fill out a whole survey in a 2008 study.

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Question: political socialization (378)

Answer: the process through which individuals acquire their political beliefs and and values.

i.e. family can influence your political values because when you are young you spend a lot of time with your family so their ideas and beliefs will subconsciously influence you.

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Question: polling (378)

Answer: to record the opinion or vote of focus groups, elections, telecommunications etc.

i.e. entrance and exit polling

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Question: Federalist papers (378)

Answer: a collection of essays written under the pseudonym "publius" by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison published in newspapers in 1787.

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Question: sound bite (383)

Answer: a short extract from a recorded interview, chosen for its pungency or appropriateness.

i.e. used in 2004 election, just 6 seconds.

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Question: "the Silent Majority" (384)

Answer: people who who wanted a return to more traditional values after the tumult of the 1960s.

i.e. Nixon used this for his re-election campaign to appeal to "the Silent Majority"

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Question: public opinion (389)

Answer: what the public thinks about a particular issue or set of issues at any point in time.

i.e. politicians use them to decide how to make decisions based on public opinion.

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Question: public opinion polls (389)

Answer: interviews or surveys with samples of citizens that are used to estimate the feelings and beliefs of the entire population.

i.e. to ask for the American view on terrorism and the relevance if terrorism in the country.

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Question: Literary Digest (390)

Answer: a popular magazine that began presidential polling in 1916 and was a pioneer in the use of straw polls.

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Question: straw polls (390)

Answer: unscientific surveys used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues and policies

i.e. literary digest predicted Landon would beat FDR but it wasn't true, FDR won.

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Question: incumbent (390)

Answer: (of an official or regime) currently holding office.

i.e. Franklin D. Roosevelt was an incumbent in 1936.

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Question: sample (390)

Answer: a subset of the whole population elected to be questioned for the purposes of prediction or gauging opinion

i.e. samples of populations are chosen to variation in results in an area. This is helpful for gauging the difference between classes, such as the difference between the upper and middle class options.

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Question: random sampling (393)

Answer: a method of poll selection that gives each person in a group the same chance of being selected.

i.e. 1,594 people living in all 50 states were sampled on how favorable Hilary Clinton is.

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Question: stratified sampling (393)

Answer: a variation of random sampling; census data are used to divide the country into 4 sampling regions. Sets of countries and standard metropolitan statistical areas are then randomly selected in proportion to the tidal national population.

i.e. east 36% and west 44% protect the right to own a gun

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Question: push polls (395)

Answer: polls taken for the purpose of providing information an opponent that would lead respondents to not vote for the candidate.

i.e. studies have shown that FDR is unfit to be president because he has polio. Would you still vote for him?

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Question: tracking polls (395)

Answer: surveys that enable a campaign to chart it's rise and fall in support.

i.e. 2008 democratic election for Obama

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Question: margin of error (397)

Answer: measure of accuracy of a public opinion poll.

i.e. margin of error for 1,000 people is 4%

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Question: political ideology (400)

Answer: the coherent set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government help by groups and individuals.

i.e. democrat, republican, socialism, communism

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