GENERAL INFO
What does the term public opinion mean?
The reactions/attitudes people have about a issue/person.
What are some examples of things that set opinions apart?
Age, gender, income, race, religion, occupation, and place of residence.
What are the three futures of public opinion?
Direction, Intensity, and Stability.
How do you measure public opinion with election results?
By looking at the results.
How are polls carried out?
Officials ask a random array of people from all races, incomes, ages, and viewpoints, to answer some questions.
What do candidates of a electoral positions need to succeed?
Public Opinion.
What are the types of mass media?
Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, recordings, movies, Internet Web sites, and books
How can the direction of a opinion effect public opinion?
When something is expressed as positive or negative it cant heavily effect ones opinion.
How do you measure public opinion with survays?
By asking people for there opinion and then monitoring it.
What can a well crafted sample reflect on?
The characteristics of a entire population.
Presidents are more likely to gain the support of congress with what?
Public Opinion.
How can public officials effect your opinion?
By stating there views in ways that persuade people.
What does intensity refer to in public opinion?
The strength of ones issue.
What do pollsters do?
Pollster measures the president’s popularity or public attitudes toward possible White House proposals.
By wording there question in a emotion bending way.
Diversity among American causes what?
It makes government officials listen.
What is a group of people who support a opinion called?
An interest group.
What does stability refer to in public opinion?
How firm someone holds onto an opinion.
What are push pulls?
Polls were the questions are worded in ways in influence an opinion.
How can polls discourage elections?
By seeing someone ahead in a race can make people not vote due to thinking its already won or lost.
Who was the man that said the following quote “I cannot go any faster than the people will let me.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What are the sources of your opinion?
Background, the mass media, public officials, and interest groups.
What kind of issues do most Americans strongest convictions to?
Issues that directly effect there lives.
What are some uses of polls?
Allows office holders to keep in touch with citizens’ changing ideas about issues.
What are some problems with polls?
Many think it makes our elected officials more concerned with pleasing the public rather than doing there jobs.