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    Domestic Policy On Top

    Six-in-ten voters say the next president should focus on domestic policy.

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    GOP’s Moral Majority

    A majority of Republicans cite moral values and abortion as important election issues.

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    Bush’s Third Term?

    Voters split on whether McCain would continue Bush’s policies.

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    Probama

    Three-in-four Obama supporters say they are voting for him (75%), not against McCain.

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    Obama-Clinton Ticket?

    A narrow majority of Democrats (53%) favor an Obama-Clinton ticket.

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    Interest in Floods Increases, Still Lower than for ’93 Deluge

    Summary of Findings As the floods in the Midwest continued to devastate parts of that region, public interest in the story increased moderately last week, but still remained significantly lower than interest in the massive floods that struck the region in 1993. Roughly four-in-ten (39%) followed the floods in the Midwest very closely, up from […]

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    Baby Boomers: The Gloomiest Generation

    America’s baby boomers are in a collective funk. Members of the large generation born from 1946 to 1964 are more downbeat about their lives than are adults who are younger or older.

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    Anthropology of YouTube

    The Library of Congress invited Michael Wesch to deliver the third of four “Digital Natives” lectures. Wesch, creator of the world-famous YouTube video, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” presented the “Anthropology of YouTube” to a packed, fascinated …