In general, public awareness of elected officials, policy issues, and the stances of officials on those issues is relatively poor. Which of the following statements is accurate? About two$-$third of American adults have indicated that they are interested in politics only now and then" or "hardly at all Approximately only $25$ percent of the public, called the attentive publicare interested in politics most of the time. Opinion leaders and those who are informed about public affairs have much less influence than the highly$-$active citizens. Politics is a major interest of most Americans, and as a result, knowledge about the political system is high.