Use this American Government by the People video entitled Public Opinion, Participation and Voting to understand how government works and to study how Public opinion is a complex combination of views and attitudes that individuals acquire through various influences from childhood on, and how public opinion takes on qualities of stability, fluidity, intensity, latency, consensus, or polarization - each of which is affected by people's feelings about the salience of issues. Discover how the American public has a generally low level of interest in politics, and most people do not follow politics and government closely. The public's knowledge of political issues is poor.
Learn about Public Opinion Participation and Voting.