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What appears to be behind differences in the way women and men vote in the United States?

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  concern about abortion rights

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  concern about children’s issues

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  differences in wages, life experience, and Democratic outreach to women

• concern about abortion rights, birth control, and differences in wages

The distinctive pattern of voting behavior reflecting the differences in views between men and women is most often termed the

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  gender gap.

• masculine rift.

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  sexual revolution.

• male-female divide.

More than any other single news source, Americans get their news from

• radio.

• television.

• the Internet.

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  newspapers.

An all-encompassing means of understanding the world or society, one through which an individual can filter all new political information and situations, is best described as

• a basic value system.

• partisan identification.

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  an ideology.

• a set of preferences.

Which of the following identities is most associated with residents who strongly identify with the South?

• Latino identity

• Black identity

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  religious identity

• geographic identity

In response to Americans’ heavy and increasing use of the Internet, traditional media such as newspapers, television, and radio have

• fallen by the wayside, with universally dwindling audiences and dramatically falling profits.

• moved much of their content online, often providing it for free.

• lost their influence, even with politically interested and well-educated Americans.

• failed to take advantage of social media, including Twitter, and thus lost ground with younger and more plugged-in audiences.

Americans who do not take the time to learn about government, or about policy issues, in any depth are more likely to lean on ________ than anything else to help them make political decisions.

• politicians’ social media posts and brief news reports

• shortcuts, party labels, and stereotypes

• Internet searches

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  similarly inattentive family members

The contemporary political ideology that is generally supportive of maintaining social and cultural traditions, limiting the role of government in economic life, and ensuring a strong military defense is most accurately classified as

• isolationist.

• conservative.

• populist.

• libertarian.

The Black Lives Matter protests of the police killings of young Black men, as well as feminist efforts to bring attention to sexual misconduct in the workplace, are often, at least in the popular media, described as examples of identity politics at work. The term, however, as used by political scientists more broadly refers to

• any group identity that can shape political behavior.

• racial or ethnic and gender identity, as mixed with partisan identity.

• political attitudes, as they mix with racial or ethnic and gender identities.

• zero-sum games among racial and ethnic groups, as well as between men and women.

In the 2016 presidential election and again in the 2018 midterm congressional races, Hispanic voting populations leaned toward

• the Democratic Party, with the exception of Cuban Americans, who mostly voted Republican.

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  the Democratic Party.

• the Republican Party, with the exception of Mexican Americans in California and Puerto Ricans

•   the Democratic Party, with the exception of Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans.