A) paying for push polls that will produce the results they want.
B) conducting town hall interviews with voters.
C) framing the way they put forward proposals to try and sway the public.
D) spending campaign money on television advertising.
E) only supporting those positions that polls show a majority of voters support.
G) A) and B)
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A) They tend to have different political opinions because of their different generations.
B) They often disagree on the most controversial political issues because children tend to rebel against their parents.
C) They tend to share similar social views but not economic views because of changes in the economy over time.
D) They rarely agree on who to vote for in an election because young people do not have a strong political identity and can change their minds frequently.
E) They tend to share the same political ideology and partisanship; family is a strong and early force in political socialization.
G) D) and E)
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A) policy mood
B) random sample
C) political socialization
D) partisan cue
E) consideration
G) None of the above
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B) False
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A) ideology
B) latent opinions
C) cohort effects
D) generational effects
E) considerations
G) A) and C)
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A) that individuals tend to share the same party identification as their parents
B) that people with high agreeableness are more likely to favor economic policies that help the disadvantaged
C) that, until the 1970s, relatively few native white southerners identified with the Republican Party
D) the failure of President Clinton to enact health care reform in 1994
E) the increasing ideological polarization in Congress
G) C) and E)
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A) mass survey; the entire
B) mass survey; a large sample of the
C) focus group; the entire
D) focus group; a large sample of the
E) push poll; a random sample of the
G) B) and C)
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A) by giving tax cuts and tax credits to corporations
B) by reducing civil liberties
C) by expanding the federal government's role in different programs
D) by cutting off foreign trade
E) by following policies designed to reduce deficit spending
G) A) and E)
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A) the survey is completed through a face-to-face interview.
B) the survey oversamples highly educated respondents.
C) the questions are based on a topic familiar to most Americans.
D) the questions are complex and convoluted.
E) the survey asks a hypothetical question that the respondent finds thought-provoking.
G) B) and E)
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A) 52 percent
B) anywhere from 49 to 52 percent
C) anywhere from 52 to 55 percent
D) anywhere from 49 to 55 percent
E) sampling error and the question wording make it impossible to determine
G) A) and E)
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A) increases an adult's sense of civic duty.
B) decreases the likelihood of voting in an election.
C) increases support for Democrats.
D) increases support for Republicans.
E) makes people more evenhanded and moderate in their political attitudes.
G) None of the above
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A) using Internet surveys to conduct their polls
B) creating an average of polls that is more accurate than any individual poll
C) combining academic research with polling techniques
D) conducting daily polls to get a more accurate reading
E) writing poll questions in such a way that they push people toward a certain answer
G) C) and D)
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A) remain stable over time.
B) shift depending on how a question is asked.
C) be latent opinions.
D) shift rapidly in response to questions.
E) change in response to popular presidents.
G) A) and D)
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A) Random sampling produces sampling error in surveys.
B) Results are often inadvertently influenced by how questions are worded in the survey.
C) A typical mass survey of 1,000 people is simply not large enough to draw scientific conclusions about national public opinion.
D) Random digit dialing only reaches people with telephones, which biases the sample by overrepresenting the young.
E) Organizations that conduct polls do not have enough funding to do the surveys properly.
G) C) and E)
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A) Sampling error can be eliminated from a mass survey.
B) Sampling error prevents any poll results from being taken seriously.
C) Sampling error is usually lower if the majority of the sample includes people with a four-year college degree.
D) Sampling error is usually lower if the majority of the sample includes people with strong political opinions.
E) Sampling error decreases as the size of the sample gets larger.
G) All of the above
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A) likely to be confused by the question.
B) unlikely to answer the question or to take it seriously.
C) likely to express thoughtful but inaccurate opinions.
D) likely to express thoughtful and accurate opinions.
E) likely to answer the question but with a response that the respondent thinks the interviewer wants to hear.
G) A) and B)
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A) policy mood.
B) latent opinion.
C) political ideology.
D) partisan identification.
E) consideration.
G) C) and D)
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