Explain the importance of party identification for voting behavior.
What will be an ideal response?
Important cognitive shortcut and most important predictor of vote; increasing levels of partisan voting
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A) Joseph McCarthy B) John Adams C) Earl Warren D) Warren Burger E) Charles Ward
One notable feature of first-past-the-post elections is that
A) candidates usually cannot win them unless they capture more than a majority of the popular vote. B) they require at least three candidates running for the same office. C) they originated as a voting system in ancient Greece. D) they produce sizable discrepancies between votes won and seats won. E) they tend to favor candidates with lower name recognition.