Which of the following statements concerning the roles of ideology and partisanship in shaping public opinion is NOT true?
a. Much of the current division in American politics can be expressed in ideological or partisan terms.
b. Party labels provide mental cues that we use in interpreting and responding to personalities and news.
c. Partisan sorting means that the average Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically than was the case in previous decades.
d. An ideology is a set of ideas about the world, whereas partisanship is an enduring allegiance to a party.
e. Most Americans are too moderate or nonpartisan for these concepts to have much influence on them.
e. Most Americans are too moderate or nonpartisan for these concepts to have much influence on them.
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Hawaii facilitated ratification of its new constitution in 1978 by:
A. allowing it to be ratified by the state legislature. B. having the voters vote on the new constitution as a whole, with a single vote on the entire document. C. dividing the changes into a number of different proposals that voters could accept or reject individually. D. allowing voters to vote only on the less controversial provisions, while the legislature ratified the more controversial ones.
The "one world" vision gives the bleakest vision of the future
Indicate whether this statement is true or false