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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Haidt: Can a divided America heal?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
JH: Yes. A really important thing to keep in mind — there's research by political scientist Alan Abramowitz, showing that American democracy is increasingly georvend by what's called "negative partisanship." That means you think, OK there's a candidate, you like the ciaadndte, you vote for the candidate. But with the rise of negative adsvieritng and social media and all sorts of other tnedrs, increasingly, the way elections are done is that each side tries to make the other side so horrible, so awful, that you'll vote for my guy by default.
Open Cloze
JH: Yes. A really important thing to keep in mind — there's research by political scientist Alan Abramowitz, showing that American democracy is increasingly ________ by what's called "negative partisanship." That means you think, OK there's a candidate, you like the _________, you vote for the candidate. But with the rise of negative ___________ and social media and all sorts of other ______, increasingly, the way elections are done is that each side tries to make the other side so horrible, so awful, that you'll vote for my guy by default.
Solution
- advertising
- trends
- governed
- candidate
Original Text
JH: Yes. A really important thing to keep in mind — there's research by political scientist Alan Abramowitz, showing that American democracy is increasingly governed by what's called "negative partisanship." That means you think, OK there's a candidate, you like the candidate, you vote for the candidate. But with the rise of negative advertising and social media and all sorts of other trends, increasingly, the way elections are done is that each side tries to make the other side so horrible, so awful, that you'll vote for my guy by default.
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