Which of the following supports the claim that aggregate public opinion is rational?
A. Middle-class and lower-income Americans tend to support government policies that make their economic positions worse.
B. Many Americans who protested the 2012 decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act did not know very much about what was in the law.
C. When the country is prosperous and ordinary Americans are doing well and feeling confident about the future, presidential approval ratings tend to be high.
D. People have only vague, media-provided pictures in their heads of what goes on in the world.
Answer: C
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