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| How people think or feel about particular things. |
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| A survey on public opinion. |
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| Method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected. |
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| The difference between the result of random samples taken at the same time. |
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| Polls based on interviews conducted on election day with rendomly selected voters. |
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| Process by which background traits influence one's political views. |
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| People who have a disproportionate amount of some valued resource. |
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| Difference in political views between men and women |
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| A more or less consistant set of beliefs about what policies government ought to pursue. |
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| Persons with a disproportionate share of political power |
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| Traits: Pure Liberals are more likely than the average citizen to be young, college-educated, and non-religious. |
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| Traits: Pure Conservatives are more likely than the average citizen to be older, to have higher incomes, to be white, and to live in the midwest. |
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| Traits: Libertarians are more likely than the average citizen to be young, college-educated, and white, to have higher incomes, and no religion, and to live in the West. |
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| Traits: Populists are more likely than the average citizen to older, poorly educated, low-income, religious, and female and to live in the South or Midwest. |
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| A standard of right or proper conduct. |
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