Definitive: Public Opinion

The definition of public opinion is defined as the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs shared by some portion of the adult population. There is no one public opinion because there are many different types of "publics", (American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials; Bardes, Shelley, Schmidt.)
Public opinion plays an important role in our political system, just like it does in democracy. It started out by Americans willing to express different opinions on political issues. …