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Questions:

• Drawing on the textbook reading, discuss how we develop our opinions about politics. Select two or three explanations and briefly summarize them. Select one of the factors and using yourself as an example, to discuss how that factor has affected you. For example, growing up in Los Angeles, I came into contact with many different people and points of view, and so I became more accepting of others as a young person.
• What makes a public opinion poll scientific? In addition to the textbook chapters, see the PowerPoint for some of the elements to consider. Please go to the internet, or non-electronic media, and identify one example of a scientific poll and one example of a non-scientific poll. Describe the polls briefly and discuss their relative validity. Suggestion: realclearpolitics.comLinks to an external site. has many campaign polls. For non-scientific polls, think of some of the polls you have recently run across, perhaps on social media https://realclearpolitics.com/
• To what extent do you believe that public opinion should matter in shaping policy? Are there examples where you believe that the majority is wrong? If so, what can be done about this?
• What explains why people vote? Discuss two or three explanations.
• Interview two people about their voting habits. Courteously, ask them if they voted in the last few elections. What motivated them to vote or not to vote? What do they remember about the experience of voting? Are there any suggestions they have to make it more likely that they would vote in the next election?