A) vastly increased funding for Medicaid, the federal health care program for low-income individuals.
B) government committees that would decide which elderly patients would receive life-saving treatment and which would not.
C) an elimination of the Medicare program.
D) government-sponsored health care for illegal immigrants.
E) a legalization of partial-birth abortions.
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A) accurate, since Americans are one people and indivisible.
B) less accurate than a view of public opinion based on the majority, since the political system operates on the principle of majority rule.
C) less accurate than the idea that Americans form many publics, which differ greatly in such things as the level of attention they pay to politics.
D) less accurate than a view of public opinion based on what the news media are saying about the public.
E) accurate, because there is little diversity in American public opinion.
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A) in both the economic and social spheres.
B) in the economic but not the social sphere.
C) in the social sphere, but not the economic sphere.
D) in neither the social nor the economic spheres.
E) only with regard to affirmative action.
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A) uninformed response
B) faulty opinion
C) invalid answer
D) confused response
E) non-opinion
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A) affirmative action.
B) abortion rights.
C) higher levels of education spending.
D) the use of force to settle international disputes.
E) All of these answers are correct.
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A) Libertarian
B) Democrat
C) Republican
D) Populist
E) Green
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A) the poorer American classes still had enough material wealth to be happy with their station.
B) American workers lacked sufficient class consciousness.
C) the government was already providing substantial financial assistance to the working class.
D) the Social Security system provided workers with a safety net not available to workers in Europe.
E) the government of the U.S. was too militantly anti-communist and would not allow propaganda to spread.
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A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) F
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A) question order.
B) unrepresentative samples.
C) respondents' lack of knowledge or interest in the issue.
D) question wording.
E) All of these answers are correct.
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A) Democrats.
B) Republicans.
C) Independents.
D) Libertarians.
E) Populists.
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A) Liberalism and conservatism have such imprecise meanings that it is not useful to think about politics in these terms.
B) Americans overwhelmingly identify themselves as liberals.
C) Americans are highly sophisticated in their political thinking.
D) Only a minority of Americans can be classified as true ideologues.
E) Americans are highly consistent in their political thinking.
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A) Polls are the most relied-upon method of measuring public opinion.
B) Polls can be erroneous at times.
C) Most large news organizations have their own in-house polls.
D) The Gallup pollsters have correctly predicted the winner of presidential elections most of the time since 1936.
E) All of these answers are correct.
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A) economic class.
B) religion.
C) partisanship.
D) race and ethnicity.
E) age and generational beliefs.
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A) determines specific government actions.
B) is unrelated to government action.
C) sets limits on government action.
D) generally affects government action only on election issues.
E) is strongest during a presidential election.
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A) normally cumulative; political beliefs attained earlier in life tend to be retained to a substantial degree.
B) highly structured; children are subjected to an intense system of government-mandated political indoctrination.
C) highly effective; Americans are the best informed citizens in the world.
D) extremely narrow; most Americans get nearly all their opinions from a single source.
E) usually uniform; there are almost no differences in the opinions of various groups, such as northerners and southerners.
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A) Idaho
B) Georgia
C) Utah
D) Washington
E) Texas
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A) Schools are the most influential agent of political socialization, and political socialization is strongest during childhood.
B) Family is the strongest agent of political socialization, and political socialization is strongest during high school and college.
C) Political socialization is cumulative, and it is most heavily developed during childhood.
D) Political socialization is transitory, and it is most heavily developed during young adulthood.
E) Political socialization occurs primarily among educated populations, and it is most heavily developed during adulthood.
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A) population size and the sample size.
B) sample size and the timeline over which the sample was taken.
C) size of the sample and whether the sample was selected from the population by a random method.
D) sample size and whether the sample has the same percentage of men and women as the population.
E) anonymous nature of the sampling process and sample size.
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