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Interest Group
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A group of people who share 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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In polling, a group that does not accurately represent the larger population.
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Universe
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In polling, 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 everyone in the "universe" has an equal chance of being selected.
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Sampling error
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A measurement of how much the sample results may differ from the sample universe.
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Cluster sample
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A polling method that groups people by geographical divisions.
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