Public Opinion & Social Media Test

Forms of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content are collectively known as?

• Email
• Instant Messaging
• Social Media
• Newsletters

The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue, candidate, or institution within a specific population. 

• Sample
• Polling
• Public Opinion
• Majority Rule

Election in which voters elect officeholders.

• Primary Election
• Presidential Election
• General Election
• Midterm Election

An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood. 

• Party Identification
• Political Socialization
• Political Culture
• Party Consensus

A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of campaign finance information and public funding of presidential elections, and enforcing contribution limits. 

• FCC
• FBI
• FEC
• BOE

TV, newspapers, magazines, and internet are some examples of ...

• Print media
• Mass media
• Social media
• Media

An unscientific attempt to measure public opinion?

• Straw Poll

• Push Poll

• Random Sample

• universe

A person can be politically socialized by?

• following local and federal laws

• reading new laws that are passed

• talking with peers and family members

• writing and conducting political polls

Public interest groups can help?

• Change government structure

• shape public policy

• solve most political problems

• weaken the democratic process

Polling that takes place as voters leave the polling place?

• exit poll

• straw poll

• scientific poll

• biased sample