In recent years, members of political action committees and political parties have presented themselves as legitimate pollsters when in fact they have attempted to plant subtle facts in the minds of the respondents. These activities are referred to as

a. straw polls.
b. scientific polls.
c. pseudo-polls.
d. political filtering.
e. campaigning.


ANS: C

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