Prior to the creation of scientific polling in the 1930s, politicians relied on conversations with political observers and the content of newspapers, letters and petitions to gauge public sentiment. These were really a form of

A) ?elite opinion.
B) uneducated opinion.
C) scientific polling.
D) ?public opinion.
E) random sampling.


A

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