Aldrich et all. 2019

What has been proven to be by far the most important evidence for understanding elections?

• Political identification

• Partisanship

• Political Parties

• Voters

What two questions are being looked at throughout the reading?

• What is party identification?

• Do partisan identification presume as a “running tally”?

• How does party identification actually structure other attitudes and behaviors?

Which election are they examining that involves party identification?

• 2012

• 2008

• 2020

• 2016

True/ False : Most Americans develop a preference for either the Democratic or Republican Party?

• False

• True

What does party identification stand as a core orientation to?

• Ideology

• Electoral Politics

• Voting

• Political participation

Do you think partisan identification presumes as a “running tally” (terms of policy and performance) Or social and economic experience from voters.

• Running Tally

• Social and economic experiences

• Both of them combined.

• I have no idea

True/False : Strong supporters of either party are less likely to vote than weak supporters.

• True

• False

True/False : Independents who lean toward a party are more likely to vote than independents without partisan leanings.

• False

• True

What does polarization mean?

• Weakening

• Consistency

• Strengthening

Increased differentiation and consistency of positions of the candidates and not as much from changes in the issue positions among the public is called......