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All right a poll that attempts to determine whether a

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particular issue will decide which candidate of voter will support

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measures What And here the potential answer visions All right

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Well when pollsters take a stroll stir down political canvassing

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lane they're usually trying to figure out what will tip

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voters into a particular candidates hat does a pole attempting

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to determine whether an issue will decide a voter support

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measure distribution Well if we were taking a poll on

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whether people preferred lions or tigers the distribution would reveal

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how many people ended up in each big cat column

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but we're looking for something that will show us how

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much passion and wait those individual columns could bear the

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o mine would a pull that determines whether a particular

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issue decides voters support measure be say leon's We'll say

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aliens only points out whether or not we feel in

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issue is relevant to our lives like a pull measuring

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whether teens feel like they be affected by a new

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law banning texting while walking What we need is a

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poll that will show us whether that relevant issue is

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so relevant it'd make us reevaluate the relevance of oh

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Boy new polls that attempt to capture whether an issue

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is a deciding factor for voters measure de stability A

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child's love for ice cream our mom's obsession with tupperware

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beyonce's reign as queen b a pole measuring stability would

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show us that these three things have a tendency to

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stay the same overtime way Just need something that will

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show us our particular issues Halo effect But what about

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the leighton See let's say a poll finds we support

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a ban on final exams even if that issue isn't

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being debated right now or ever That kind of question

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measures leighton See which politicians used to determine feelings that

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might be tested down the line which means that a

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pole attempting to determine whether a particular issue will the

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sight of voters support measures see intensity intensity measures the

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strength of the public's feelings on a particular issue And

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if those feelings burn with fire of even a few

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dozen sons well they could sway a voter to switch

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sides Soc is the correct answer In fact single issue

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voters often decide their support based on yep a single

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