Ap Am Gov Unit 2 Terms Public Opinion

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The distribution of individual attitudes about a particular issue, candidate, or political institution

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Public Opinion

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Tool used to measure public opinion

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Polls

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People hired by political campaigns to determine their popularity and how issues are viewed by the public

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Pollsters

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The concept that those interviewed must be a __________ sample of the entire group.

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Representative

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This is range (number)of people interviewed in national surveys

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1,000 to 1,500

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Technique that gives everyone in the population an equal opportunity of being questioned

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Random Sample

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What types of words should not be used in an interview question?

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Loaded or emotional words

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Slight variations in results between the same poll with different random samples.

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Sampling Errors

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The lifelong process through which an individual acquires opinions about politics

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Political Socialization

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This is the most influential source of political socialization for most individuals.

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Their family

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The idea that women would consider sexual harassment in the workplace an important issue is considering ________ as the influence on this view.

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Gender

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Since the 1960's, women as a group, have been more likely to vote for this party.

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The Democratic Party

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Research shows that women are: more likely, less likely or there is no coorelation to vote for women candidates

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no coorelation

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Protestants are (more/less) conservative on economic matters than Catholic and Jewish voters.

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More conservative

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Jewish voters tend to be more (liberal/conservative) than Catholics and Protestants on economic and social issues

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Liberal