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What are Election Day exit polls, and why have they been criticized?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What best explains the demise of party machines?
 
  a. congressional reforms that prevented private party meetings in smoke-filled rooms
  b. Keynesian economic reforms that increased individual wealth
  c. judicial reforms that ended the pay to play system of assigning public defenders
  d. progressive reforms that instituted a merit-based hiring system



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Answer to Question 1

An ideal response will:
1,Define an exit poll as asking exiting voters at randomly selected voting placeshow they voted. Note that they are used by the media to predict the outcome of elections before the votes are counted.
2, Describe how this practice may discourage some from voting.

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