Which of the following is an accurate comparison of an exit poll and a tracking poll?

Multiple-Choice Questions.

To assess your knowledge and skills in government and politics, answer these sample multiple-choice questions. Here are some questions much like you might see on the national AP exam regarding ideology and voting tendencies.  The correct answers will appear below the questions after a brief delay.

1. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of contemporary conservative and liberal political views?

2. Henry attended the University of Connecticut, is a member of St. Margaret’s Cathedral, and is a member of the local Brotherhood of Electricians. How will he vote in the next election?

(A) He will vote for the Republican candidates

(B) He will vote in the presidential race, but not in the local races

(C)  He will vote for the Democratic candidates

(D) He will vote for the Republicans on fiscal issues and the Democrats on political issues

3. Which is an accurate comparison of African American and Catholic voters?

And the answers are . . . 

A, C, and D

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Abstract

Because of slow turnaround time and typically low response rates, mail surveys have generally been considered of little value in election forecasting. However, statewide mail surveys conducted by the Columbus Dispatch newspaper since 1980 have made remarkably accurate forecasts of Ohio election outcomes. Incomparison to statewide surveys by two other organizations employing conventional telephone interview methods, the mail surveys were consistently more accurate and were generally less susceptible to sources of inaccuracy such as high roll off and low publicity. The mail survey's advantage is attributable at least in part to larger sample sizes, sampling and response procedures that yielded more representative samples of voters, lack of the need to allocate undecided respondents, and superior questionnaire design. These findings suggestthat mail surveys not only may be viable alternatives to telephone surveys but may actually be superior to them under some conditions. Further-more, these results demonstrate that surveys with low response rates are not necessarily low in validity.

Journal Information

Since 1937, The Public Opinion Quarterly has been the leading interdisciplinary journal for practitioners and academicians studying the development and role of communication research, current public opinion, as well as the theories and methods underlying opinion research. Such methods include survey validity, questionnaire construction, interviewing and interviewers, sampling strategy, mode of administration, and analytic approaches. Each issue presents theoretical advances, along with tested applications throughout the social and behavioral sciences.

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