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Interest group
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A group of people with common goals who organize to influence government
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Public-interest group
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A group that seeks policy goals that it believes will benefit the nation
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Lobbying
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Direct contact made by a lobbyist in order to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors
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Lobbyist
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Interest group representative
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Biased sample
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A group that does not accurately represent the larger population
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Universe
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the group of people that are to be studied
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Representative sample
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a small group of people typical of the universe that a pollster questions
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Random sampling
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a polling technique in which every one of the universe has a chance of being selected
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Sampling error
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group surveyed in an opinion poll
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Cluster sample
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a polling method that groups people by geographical divisions
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