Which Statement Is True Regarding Political Elites

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true regarding political elites?

• A)Elite efforts to manipulate policy attitudes are constrained by the public's ability to test elite claims against personal experience.
• B)Political elites rarely seek to influence public opinion on health policy issues.
• C)Elites depend primarily on the comparison by metaphor heuristic to influence public opinion.
• D)Few Americans actually believed Republican claims that the ACA created "death panels."

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Compounded Quarterly

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The process by which individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.

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