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Public opinion supported the invasion of Iraq in 2002

True or False?

A

True

1
Q

Public opinion polls are not scientifically based

True or False?

A

False

2
Q

Public opinion polls helped Harry Truman defeat Thomas Dewey in
1948
True or False?

A

False

3
Q

There are not any properties of public opinion, people do not think rationally
True or False?

A

False

4
Q

Family has very little influence on how people form their opinions
True or False?

A

False

5
Q

Friends have the most influence on opinions

True or False?

A

False

6
Q

Gender determines voting behavior between men and women

True or False?

A

False

7
Q

Race has little has little or no effect on voting behavior

True or False?

A

False

8
Q

American political culture does not have any values

True or False?

A

False

9
Q

Forty percent of eligible voters vote on any given election

True or False?

A

True

10
Q

Multiple choice questions

A

Move on

11
Q

The central limit theorem helps with?

A

Counting votes

12
Q

Which is not a property of public opinion?

A

Bias

13
Q

Which office do we not vote directly for?

A

Presidency

14
Q

Which group is the most loyal to the Democratic Party?

A

African American

15
Q

Verba and Nie developed a scale of participation. Which is one of the categories of their scale?

A

Inactives

16
Q

Public opinion polls should be consumed fresh just like?

A

Sushi

17
Q

Which is not a property of public opinion?

A

Capability

18
Q

Which group is not allowed to vote?

A

Felons

19
Q

Voting machine are not used because?

A

They can be tampered with through hacking

20
Q

Voting is

A

A right, but one also has the freedom not to participate