Chapter 8 Dictionary

3. devices that collect info by asking questions.
7. representative slice of the total universe.
8. blogs, website postings usually devoted to a specific subject.
9. randomly selected people from the entire universe.
11. instructions or commands a constituency gives to its elected officials.
12. group with whom someone regularly associate with, including friends, classmates, neighbors, coworkers, and etc.
14. means of communication that reach large, widely dispersed audiences simultaneously.
16. a person who has an unusually strong influence on the views of others.
17. polls that simply ask the same question of a large number of people in an attempt to read there minds.

1. attitudes held by a significant number of people on matters involving government and politics.
2. politics, public issues, and the making of public policies.
4. one deliberately constructed to reflect the major characteristics of a given universe.
5. societal problems that the nations political leaders and the general public agree need government attention.
6. private organizations whose members share certain views and/or objectives
10. the whole population that a poll aims to measure
13. snappy reports that can be aired in 30 or 45 seconds or so.
15. means of communication transmits some kind of information.