How Voters Decide

How Voters Decide

Poll

When you are old enough, and if you are eligible, do you plan to be a voter?

• Yes

• No

• I don't know

Multiple Choice

What percent of the electorate does Gen Z make up?

• 5%

• 10%

• 50%

• 35%

Multiple Select

Choose the correct statements

• Most Gen Z voters are excited about the candidate they vote for

• Most Gen Z voters don't see themselves reflected in the candidates

• Most Gen Z voters identify as progressive

• Most Gen Z voters identify as conservative

Open Ended

After viewing this video, explain why Gen Z voters are different from other generations of voters (use evidence from the video). 

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a main factor that influences how a person votes?

• Characteristic of the candidate

• Gender of the candidate

• Issues involved

• Party loyalty

Multiple Choice

What percentage of voters will vote for their party's candidate out of party loyalty?

• 75

• 90

• 80

• 50

Multiple Choice

What is the best description of what polarization in political parties means?

• Political parties are moving closer together over time.

• People who identify with a political party seem to hate people from the other party more over time.

• One party seems to be gaining more power over the other over time..

• Over time, more people are saying that they identify more as independents than as a member of a party.

Multiple Choice

Who are the examples that Craig mentioned that got people to vote for a particular party because they were seen as a good president, so people decided to choose and stick with that party?

• Nixon and Kennedy

• Ford and Carter

• Clinton and Obama

• F. D. Roosevelt, and Reagan

Multiple Choice

What do they mean by saying that geography matters?

• Voters want to know that the candidate is knowledgeable about geography.

• Voters want a candidate to promise their region lots of government benefits.

• Sometimes voters care about where a candidate is from.

• Sometimes voters don't want presidents who are always from the same region.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean that social class matters to voters?

• Voters want candidates that they think would fit into and identify with their own social category.

• Voters want a candidate who is well educated and probably smarter than average.

• Voters want someone who has been successful so that they can't be bribed if elected.

• Voters want someone with class and dignity to speak, and communicate clearly.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT one of the two types of issue voting?

• Introspective

• Retrospective

• Prospective

Multiple Choice

What type of voting is based on the candidates past performance?

• Introspective

• Prospective

• Retrospective

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

Prospective voting is

• Voting for a candidate based on what you would like to see from that candidate.

• Voting for a candidate based on how much they dislike the opposing candidate.

• Voting for a candidate based on what they have done in the past.

• Voting for a candidate based on what they think they will do in the future.

Multiple Choice

Valence issues are

• Issues for which all voters want to see a higher value.

• Issues which could arrive at a variety of solutions.

• Issues that require the sacrifice of other government programs in order to implement.

• Issues that are impossible for voters to ever know if they are being addressed.

Multiple Choice

Spatial issues are

• Issues for which all voters want to see a higher value.

• Issues which could arrive at a variety of solutions.

• Issues that require the sacrifice of other government programs in order to implement.

• Issues that are impossible for voters to ever know if they are being addressed.

Multiple Choice

What is the best way to predict how people will vote?

• Gender of the candidate

• How many commercials the candidate has on tv?

• ? Social media output of the candidate

• Party loyalty.