What Have Several Decades of Polling Shown About Most Ordinary

question 30

Multiple Choice

What have several decades of polling shown about most ordinary Americans?

• A) that they do not know a lot about politics, although they care a lot about politics
• B) that they care a lot about politics, although they do not know a lot about politics
• C) that they neither know nor care a lot about politics
• D) that they have detailed knowledge of important public policies
• E) that they have detailed knowledge of the way our economic system works

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