POL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bradley Effect, Welfare Dependency, Fugitive Slave Laws
15 May 2014
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Word of the day: moveon. org group who shapes public opinion website non profit bring people back into democratic process supported campaign finance. Public opinion in america: one definition that ha endured for three decades states that public opinion consists of those opinions held by private persons which governments find it prudent to heed v. o. Why: it wasn"t until the twentieth century that scientific polling was developed, today, public opinion is most commonly measured by asking questions of a carefully selected sample of adults. Pol- lecture 7: chapter 10 continued- public opinion. The more visible the issue, politician, or event, the greater public awareness will be ignorance does not prohibit opinions. However, such opinions are usually very unstable in nature instability can also be introduced through changes in question wording. In 2004, bush focused on homeland security; kerry focused on iraq and the economy in 2008, obama focused on the economy; mccain tried to focus more on national security.
