A candidate for district attorney claims that 75% of all residents in Elko County, Nevada, favor granting police additional powers to tap telephone lines. To check this claim, a random sample of 560...

A candidate for district attorney claims that 75% of all residents in Elko County, Nevada, favor granting police additional powers to tap telephone lines. To check this claim, a random sample of 560 residents was selected, and 392 said they were in favor of more phone taps.

The sequester— potentially harmful, automatic budget cuts—can affect jobs, services, education, and public safety. In 2013, the U.S. Congress was unable to reach a compromise on the federal budget, and on March 1, the sequester began. According to a poll conducted during the Summer, 22% of Americans said they had been significantly affected by resulting cuts.71 Early in the Fall, in a new survey, 55 of 310 randomly selected Americans said they were significantly affected by the resulting cuts.