Public Opinion and Polling in American Politics | East Georgia State College

University:
East Georgia State College
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POLS 2301 | Comparative Politics
Academic year:

2021
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Prince Sampson

AP Gov Vocab 3 Term approval ratings benchmark polling entrance polls focus groups public opinion polls push polling random digit dialing random sample representative sample sampling error(margin error) sampling techniques tracking polls weighting/stratification bandwagon effect bradely effect non-response bias social desirability bias libertarian moderate populist progressive saliency valence issue wedge issues agenda majoritarian Definition the percentage of survey respondents who say that they approve or strongly approve of the way the president is doing his job initial poll on a candidate and issues on which campaign strategy is based and aganist which later polls are compared public opinion surveys taken before voters cast their ballots a small group of voters chosen by a political campaign for their demographic similarities who are brought together to gauge how the group they represent feels about the candidate interviews or surveys with samples of citizens that are used to estimate the feelings and beliefs of the entire population a polling technique in which the questions are designed to shape the respondent's opinion technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting survey a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion group of people meant to represent the large group in question polling error that arises based on the small size of the sample the method used to select people from the population continuous surveys that enable a campaign or news organization to chart a candidate's daily rise or fall in support making sure demographic groups are properly represented in a sample when people join a cause because it seems popular or support a candidate who is leading in the polls the difference between the poll result and an election result in which voters gave a socially desirable poll response rather than a true response that might be perceived as racist bias resulting when indiviuals selected to be in a survey either cannot be contacted or refuse to answer survey questions the tendency for people to say what they believe is appropriate or acceptable one who believes in limited government interference in personal and economic liberties person who views are between conservative and liberal and may include some of both ideologies a supporter of the rights and power of the people a belief that personal freedom and solving social problems are more important than religion the degree to which an issue is important to a particular indiviual or group an issue about which the public is united and rival candidates or political parties adopt similar positions a controversial issue that one party uses to split the voters in the other party plan of action; purpose system of policy making in which those with a numerical majority hold authority