4 May be based on Facts about problems

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4. May be based on: Facts about problems and solutions Emotions and crises Beliefs people adopt through process of political socialization

Latency: an opinion is held but not expressed Stability: How little, or how much, public opinion changes over time

U. S. is one of the world’s most diverse countries, this makes it especially complex. Public opinion often skewed to a particular point of view (most in U. S. favor a capitalist economic system) Other public opinion can be almost equally divided between two extreme positions, generally little middle ground on these issues (Pro-life vs. prochoice)

1. more important seems to be education: the education, the higher the efficacy. higher the

Many immigrants arrive from all over the world each year (government allows 630, 000 new legal immigrants per year)

1. Speaker of the House 2. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 3. Where other countries are located (Iraq, China, El Salvador)

1. Rapid shifts are common when the public doesn’t have much information or when the information that they have is bad.

Modern-day polling tends to be moderately accurate

1. As polling techniques become more advanced, typical sample sizes decreasing 1. Poll results give candidate 45% of vote. Actual results could be 42 or 48%

Not reliable representations of people’s true opinions. However: 1. Results not reliable because there is no guarantee that the group or sample answering question is representative of whole population.