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| 5089441955 | Public Opinion | What the public thinks about a particual,r issue or set of issies at any point in time | 0 | |
| 5089441956 | Public Opinion Polls | Interviews or surveys sith samples of citizens that are used to estimate the feelings and beleifes of the entire population | 1 | |
| 5089441957 | Straw Poll | Unscientific survey used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues and poicies | 2 | |
| 5089441958 | Sample | A subset of the whole population selected to be questioned for the purposes of prediction or gauging opinion | 3 | |
| 5089441959 | Push Polls | Polls taken for the purpose of providing information on an opponent that would lead respondents to vote against that candidate | 4 | |
| 5089441960 | Population | The entire group of people whose attitudes a researcher wishes to measure | 5 | |
| 5089441961 | Random Sampling | A method of poll selection that gives each person in a group the same chance of being selected | 6 | |
| 5089441962 | Stratified Sampling | A variation of random sampling; the population is divided into subgroups and weighted based on demographic characteristics of the national population | 7 | |
| 5089441963 | Tracking Polls | Continuous surveys that enable a campaign or news organization to chart a candidate's daily rise or fall I support | 8 | |
| 5089441964 | Exit Polls | Polls conducted as voters leave selected polling places on Election Day | 9 | |
| 5089441965 | Margin of Error | A measure of the accuracy of a public opinion poll | 10 | |
| 5089441966 | Political Socialization | The process through which individuals acquire their political beliefs and values | 11 |
