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    Search: Myself

    Nearly half of all internet users have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% in 2002.

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    States in Which Hispanics Key to Clinton Victory

    In this year’s primary elections in three states — California, Texas and New Mexico — Latino voters more than accounted for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s total margin of victory.

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    How Super Delegates Should Vote

    By roughly two-to-one (63% to 32%), more Democratic voters say the super delegates — primarily current and former elected officials and members of the Democratic National Committee — should vote for the candidate who was won the most support in caucuses and primaries.

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    Partisan Gap Over Progress in Iraq

    A huge partisan gap divides Americans on the question of whether the U.S. is making progress in defeating the insurgency in Iraq with 80% of Republicans saying that it is, but only 36% of Democrats agreeing.

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    Your Information Online? No Problem

    Fully six-in-ten online adults are not worried about how much of their personal information is available on the internet.

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    Values Gap in Black Community

    By a ratio of two-to-one, (61%-31%) African Americans say that the values of poor and middle class blacks have grown more dissimilar over the past decade.

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    The Inevitable Candidate: Obama?

    As voters go to the polls in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont, seven-in-ten Democrats (70%) say Obama is most likely to win the party’s nomination, while just 17% see Clinton as the likely victor. Even a majority (52%) of Clinton’s backers say they think Obama is likely to emerge as the winner.

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    Fast Rising Prices

    Nearly eight-in-ten Americans feel that prices in the US have risen “a lot” in recent years.

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    Losing Ground Financially

    Nearly six-in-ten Americans (58%) now say that their incomes are falling behind the rising cost of living, compared with just 44% who expressed this view in September 2007.

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    Where’s Waldo?: Look Online

    Half of adult internet users say they think it would be “pretty easy” for someone to find them based on the information available about them online.