The Founders were wary of having any political parties at all

The Literary Digest tried to predict the outcome of the presidential elections of 1936 by using a nonscientific poll and an unrepresentative sample. As a result, the pollsters forecast that Republican Alfred Landon would easily defeat Democratic incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is an example of _____.

A. a straw-polling error B. weighting C. a house effect D. the bandwagon effect E. a push poll

A carefully structured or scripted set of questions that may be administered face-to-face, by telephone, by mail, by Internet, or by other means is called a

a. Survey instrument b. Interview c. Sampling frame d. Push poll