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Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting. What is significant about public opinion and polling?. Polling. Sampling Margin of Error Questions Results. Intensity. Latency. Salience. Soclialization. Public Opinion Shapes Policy. Political/Social Awareness. Attentive Public Nonevoters
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Polling • Sampling • Margin of Error • Questions • Results
Political/Social Awareness • Attentive Public • Nonevoters • Political know-nothings • Part-time citizens (roughly 40 percent)
Voting Changes • Origninally left to individual states/property ownership • All white male • Women /Miinorities • 18 yrs old.
Voting Rights Act: 1965 • Banned literacy tests • Eased registration requirements • Allowed federal registrars where discrimination ignored standards
Voter Registration • Voter registration required to vote (except North Dakota) • Federal law--Cannot stop registration until 30 days before
General Elections • Elect office holders