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Question 1 of 5 Who started modern polling when he was a graduate student doing readership surveys for the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Des Moines Register newspapers in the 1920s?

Lou Harris
George Gallup
Elmo Roper
Regis Philbin

Question 2 of 5 If a poll of 1000 voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 points showed Barack Obama at 48% and Mitt Romney at 46% who is ahead?

Barack Obama
Mitt Romney
It could be either candidate
Polling sample too small

Question 3 of 5 Which candidate has been winning the plurality of Catholic voters in the 2012 Republican primaries?

Rick Santorum
Newt Gingrich
Mitt Romney
Ron Paul

Question 4 of 5 Thirty-eight percent of Americans say that the greatest rock star of all time was:

Elvis Presley
Jimi Hendrix
Michael Jackson
Bruce Springsteen

Question 5 of 5 What percentage of Americans buy their pets a holiday present?

5 percent
16 percent
22 percent
60 percent

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