In the weeks immediately following Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia's death, much focus was on the conflict between President Obama's suggestion that he must fill the position and the Republican-led Senate Judiciary committee's resistance to his doing so. At this time, a Pew Research Poll of 1002 adults found that a majority of Americans (56 percent) said that the Senate should hold hearings and vote on President Obama's choice to fill the vacancy.
The sample for this study is:
A) all people.
B) all American adults.
C) all senators.
D) 1002 adults.

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The sample for the Pew Research Poll is specifically 1002 adults, not all people or all American adults. It is also not limited to senators.

In the Weeks Immediately Following Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin