The quality of presidential general-election campaigns has steadily worsened over the years.
	True False
	Most political ads lie most of the time.
	True False
	Campaign discourse in speeches and debates has become steadily more negative over the years.
	True False
	Reporters pretty accurately represent the content and level of attack in their stories about candidate speeches.
	True False
	Voters prefer ads that contrast the records of the candidates to ads that simply attack.
	True False
	Attack turns off voters. The high level of attack in the general-election presidential campaign of 1996 was a main reason that voter turnout was down.
	True False
	Attack benefits the sponsor and hurts the person attacked.
	True False
	The person who is ahead in the polls gets more strategic coverage than the underdog.
	True False
	THE NEW YORK TIMES gave Dole less coverage in 1996 than Clinton.
	True False
	Women know less than men about politics.
	True False

Adapted from EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT POLITICS AND WHY YOU'RE WRONG, by Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Permission to reproduce kindly granted by Basic Books.