Across
- 2. these attitudes held by a significant number of people on matters of government and politics
- 4. means of communication, singular of the word "media"
- 5. any person who has an unusually strong influence on the views of others
- 7. the whole population that a poll aims to measure
- 9. constructed to reflect the major characteristics of a given universe
- 12. societal problems that the nation's political leaders and general public agree need government attention
- 13. snappy reports
- 14. people with whom on regularly associates, including friends, classmates, neighbors, etc.
Down
- 1. website postings devoted to a specific subject, "blogs"
- 2. devices that attempt to collect information by asking people questions
- 3. polls sought to read the public's mind by asking the same question to a large number of people
- 4. those means of communication that reach large, widely dispersed audiences
- 6. private organizations whose members share certain views and objectives
- 8. composed of randomly selected people
- 10. a representative slice of the total universe
- 11. instructions or commands a constituency gives to its elected officials