This type of poll gauges attitudes regarding candidates and issues.
Public Opinion
Belief in the Rule of Law and Limited Government are examples of these.
American Political Cultural Beliefs
Issues that most of the public agrees on regardless of political affiliation.
Valence issues
Taxes are paid into this program and funds can be withdrawn starting at age 65.
Social Security
This type of policy deals with revenue and spending.
Fiscal Policy
These types of polls are conducted at polling places to predict election outcomes.
Entrance and Exit Polls
Family, Media, Schools, and Social Organizations are all examples of this.
Vectors of Political Socialization
An issue with high importance to an individual or group can be described as having high:
Saliency
This program helps with medical expenses for low income and disabled individuals.
Medicaid
Inflation and interest rates are concerns for this type of policy.
Monetary
A representative sample in polling is designed to reflect.
The population as a whole.
These are the changes generations go through their lives that can impact political beliefs.
Lifestyle Effects
This political ideology believes the only roles of government are defending property and upholding individual rights.
Libertarianism
Support for disadvantaged people to meet their basic needs.
Social Welfare
Income tax is an example of this kind of tax.
Progressive tax
This measures the difference between the actual results and polling data
Margin of Error
This generation represents a large portion of our government and were influenced by events like the Kennedy Assassination and the Vietnam War
Baby Boomers
This political ideology supports strong workers rights and higher taxes on the wealthy to support government programs.
Progressivism
The right to privacy was first conceptualized in Griswold v Connecticut to allow access to this:
Contraceptives
These are programs Congress is required by law to fund every year.
Entitlement Programs
This effect was well demonstrated in the 2016 election as people may not have shared or answered their beliefs to pollsters.
Non-Response Bias
Age, Race, Economic Status, and Geographic location are all examples of this kind of data.
Demographic
Someone who supports supply side economics would most likely align with this ideology.
Conservatism
A major issue for social security spending in the future.
An aging population.
Military spending falls under this part of the budget.
Discretionary Spending