Political opinion and political socialization

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American National Election Studies (ANES)

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Social science surveys, from colleges, funded by national gov, surveys political attitudes and behavior

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Conservative

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holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.

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George Gallop

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The founder of modern day polling-leaders must constantly take public opinion no matter how short lived into account, predicted winner of Landon vs Roosevelt, still around today

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Political Socialization

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The process through which individuals acquire their political beliefs and values, born into most characteristics

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Liberal

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open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

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Libertarian

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a person who believes in the doctrine of free will.

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Margin Of Error

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A measure of The accuracy of a public opinion poll, 4%

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Moderate

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average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.

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Political Ideology

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An ideology is a set of opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual. Very often ideology refers to a set of political beliefs or a set of ideas that characterize a particular culture.

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Sampling Error

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A statistical error that occurs when an analyst does not select a sample that represents the entire population of data and the results found in the sample do not represent the results that would be obtained from the entire population.

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Population

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all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.

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Straw Polls

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Unscientific survey used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues and policies- used to predict president in literary digest
Flaws- over sampled middle class, took poll too early, self selected/highly motivated people replied

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Tracking Polls

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Continuous surveys that enables a campaign or news organization to Chat a candidates daily rise or fall in support, every 24 hours.

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Social Conservative

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usually refers to a political ideology that involves traditional, historical views on the definition of marriage, life, sexuality, and religion.

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Statist

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an advocate of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.

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exit polls

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Polls conducted as voters leave selected polling places on Election Day, predict outcomes

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push polls

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Polls taken for the purpose of providing information on an opponent that would be respondents to vote against that candidate, cross the line

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public opinion polls

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Interviews or surveys with samples of citizens that are used to estimate the feelings and beliefs of the entire population

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public opinion

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the collective opinion of many people on some issue, problem, etc., especially as a guide to action, decision, or the like.

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random sampling

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A method of poor selection that gives each person in a group the same chance of being selected

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stratified sampling

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A variation of random sampling; the population is divided into subgroups and Weighed base and demographic characteristics of the national population

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sample

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A subset of the whole population selected to be questions for the purpose of predicting or gauging opinion