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Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting

Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting. What is significant about public opinion and polling?. Polling. Sampling Margin of Error Questions Results. Intensity. Latency. Salience. Soclialization. Public Opinion Shapes Policy. Political/Social Awareness. Attentive Public Nonevoters

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Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting

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  1. Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting

  2. What is significant about public opinion and polling?

  3. Polling • Sampling • Margin of Error • Questions • Results

  4. Intensity

  5. Latency

  6. Salience

  7. Soclialization

  8. Public Opinion Shapes Policy

  9. Political/Social Awareness • Attentive Public • Nonevoters • Political know-nothings • Part-time citizens (roughly 40 percent)

  10. 2000 election

  11. Voting Changes • Origninally left to individual states/property ownership • All white male • Women /Miinorities • 18 yrs old.

  12. Voting Rights Act: 1965 • Banned literacy tests • Eased registration requirements • Allowed federal registrars where discrimination ignored standards

  13. Voter Registration • Voter registration required to vote (except North Dakota) • Federal law--Cannot stop registration until 30 days before

  14. Motor Voter

  15. General Elections • Elect office holders

  16. Primary Elections

  17. Special Elections

  18. Presidential Elections

  19. Miid Term Elections

  20. Off Year Elections

  21. Political Apathy

  22. Voter Preferences

  23. Candidate Appeal

  24. Issues

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