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| all of the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country |
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| a small part of quantity intended to show what the whole is like |
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| a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity |
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| a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge |
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| an ostensible opinion poll in which the true objective is to sway voters using loaded or manipulative questions |
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| a poll of people leaving a polling place, asking how they voted |
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| straw polls "unscientific polls" |
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| an unofficial ballot conducted as a test of opinion |
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| political culture - shapes a region's politics |
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| a set of general attitudes, ideas, and beliefs |
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| the process by which people form their ideas about politics |
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| political ideology - shapes a certain group |
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| a certain ethical set of ideas, beliefs, attutudes |
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| favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom |
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| traditional in style of manner; Thomas Hobbes, Framers (classic conservative) |
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| a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views or actions |
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| a person who believes in the doctrine of free will |
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| a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order, tradition, hierarchy and organic unity, agrarianism, etc. |
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| a political ideology that values the freedom of individuals — including the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and markets — as well as limited government |
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| a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice and nonviolence |
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| progressive party "bull moose" |
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| was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft; advocating popular control of government, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, woman suffrage, etc. |
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| a moderate, centrist and populist party that sits in the center of the political spectrum |
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