Which of the following statements about the partisan leanings of various PACs is LEAST accurate?
A. Pharmaceutical PACs tend to favor the Republican Party.
B. Labor PACs tend to favor the Democratic Party.
C. Energy PACs tend to favor the Republican Party.
D. Most influential PACs court support by giving exclusively to one party.
E. Trial lawyer PACs tend to favor the Democratic Party.
Answer: D
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a. Majority whip b. Campaign chairman c. Assistant whip d. Executive whip
Attempts to deal with the population growth problem frequently fail due to concerns about:
A. political considerations. B. economic issues. C. logistical problems. D. lack of technology. E. human rights.
Suppose that a relationship between presidential voting preference and gender has a statistical significance level of .001 and the P-R-E measure of association for this relationship is .35. Which of the following statements is correct? (Answer: B)
A. By knowing the dependent variable gender, we can reduce the number of errors in predicting the independent variable presidential voting preference by 35%. B. By knowing the independent variable gender, we can reduce the number of errors in predicting the dependent variable presidential voting preference by 35%. C. The relationship is not statistically significant; accept the null hypothesis. D. There is a statistically significant relationship, but the relationship is not strong enough to be of any theoretical importance.
In a parliamentary system of government such as that in Great Britain, political parties are
A) more closely linked to the popular will than they are in the United States. B) less closely linked to the popular will than they are in the United States. C) less likely to control both the legislative and the executive branches than are political parties in the United States. D) no different than those in the United States when it comes to being linked to the popular will. E) not important.