Question

What is public opinion? Explain. How do we determine public opinion? Do some research and provide me with an example of public opinion and figures to back it up.

Find one or two polls on the current status of Alabama's runoff senate race. The give your position on the following:

Using the polls you acquired do you believe that President Trump should influence the outcome of the runoff race in Alabama between Roy Moore and Luther Strange?

Answer 1

• Public opinion is the measure of what the public thinks about a particular issue, party, or individual political figure. Developing your opinions about issues affecting the world around you is a lifelong process that social scientists call political socialization. You'll have different life factors than everyone else, but for most people, factors like family beliefs, peer beliefs, education, religious beliefs, and media depictions have the greatest impact on their political opinions.
• The primacy tendency, or the theory that impressions acquired during childhood are the most long-lasting and influential, guides many studies of public opinion. For example, if your parents or other authority figures, like teachers, regularly included you in patriotic activities such the Fourth of July or the Pledge of Allegiance, social scientists would conclude that you are more likely to be patriotic and supportive of the U.S. government as an adult.
• One way to measure public opinion is through examining voter records, but not everyone is eligible to vote, and among those who are eligible to vote, not everyone will vote in a given election. For example, you might have voted in the 2008 election but skipped the 2010 midterm election for various reasons.
• In addition to voting, people can also participate in meetings, protests, and assemblies regarding a particular issue. While it's probably interesting to those involved, this kind of public opinion expression can be pretty hard to measure. Like voting, measuring public opinion by the number of people involved doesn't account for those who were unable to participate.
• By far the most-used method of measuring public opinion is the public opinion poll, a survey of a small group of people regarding their opinions about a particular policy area. There are many different ways of conducting a public opinion poll, but the most accurate method is to take a random sample. In a random sample, social scientists attempt to create an unbiased grouping to study by asking a randomly selected group to participate in public opinion polling.
• A new Quinnipiac poll came out this week demonstrating a robust appetite for stricter gun laws amongst a large majority of the American public.67% Want a Nationwide Ban on the Sale of Assault Weapons.97% Support Universal Background Checks.83% Support a Mandatory Waiting Period for All Gun Purchases.66% Support Stricter Gun Laws.
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