Throughout the history of the U.S., voting has been a very important part of the way that our country is run, because voting has been very important so then has been public opinion. The founding fathers were afraid of the opinions of a misinformed or ignorant public. Due to this fear they set up checks on public opinion such as the Electoral College. In this way it shows that in the 1700s as in …showed first 75 words of 844 total…

…showed last 75 words of 844 total…a poll before he goes about doing anything. Regardless of weather or not one believes that the leaders of our country should listen to it, public opinion always has been and will continue to be very important. Walter Lippmann, V.O. Key, Jr., George Gallup, James Prothro, and Charles Grigg, some of these authors may not agree on what our leaders should do about public opinion but they all agree that public opinion is important.