How do party activists differ from rank-and-file voters of their party? What consequences does this difference have for American politics?

What will be an ideal response?


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In which federal courts are trials conducted?

a. circuit b. district c. common d. public

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From 1972 to 1976 the death penalty

A) was prohibited because the Supreme Court deemed laws too vague and wanted more precise laws enacted to ensure consistency. B) was prohibited because the Innocence Project determined that 17 innocent individuals were serving time on death row. C) was prohibited because Congress removed the power of juries to impose the death penalty in capital cases. D) limited executions to only those enacted by means of electrocution or firing squad. E) was expanded to all fifty states and to Puerto Rico by executive order.

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A polling company surveying public opinion on Obama's health-care plan finds public opinion to be almost evenly divided, for and against. The graph of such a distribution would be characterized as

A) normal. B) skewed. C) reversed. D) modal. E) bimodal.

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