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    Job Offshoring

    That’s the percentage of American workers who believe it would be possible for their employer to hire someone outside the country to do the job they are doing right now

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    Growing Number of Liberal Democrats

    The percent of Democratic voters who think of themselves as “liberals” has been slowly rising in recent years, while the number of conservative Democrats has declined. In polling conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press from January to September of 2006, 32% of Democrats describe themselves as ideologically liberal, while […]

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    In Pursuit of Values Voters

    Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. With the November mid-term elections approaching, the Pew Forum convened a roundtable discussion with three respected observers of religion and party politics. Joining the conversation was Amy Sullivan, a former aide to former Senator Tom Daschle currently writing a book on faith and the Democratic Party, Ross Douthat, an associate […]

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    GOP Less Friendly to Religion?

    That’s the percentage of white Protestant evangelicals who say that the Republican Party is friendly to religion — a decline of 14 points in the past year for a constituency that has played a pivotal role in recent elections.

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    States Experimenting with Medicaid Choice Plans

    That’s the number of states, Florida most recently among them, experimenting with ways to put Medicaid recipients in charge of their health care, much like policyholders with private insurance.

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    The American Journalist

    A new book surveying more than 1,000 journalists finds their politics have drifted a bit to the right since the 1990s, but they still remain more liberal than the general US population. With a majority of the public accusing news outlets of political bias, these numbers aren’t likely to silence that noisy debate.

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    Nerds Gone Wild

    Ceremonies at Harvard honor scientists who discovered why woodpeckers don’t get headaches, why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard and how many photos are needed to ensure that no one in the picture has their eyes closed. Plus declining teacher quality and the latest research into shop-a-holics.

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    Iraq Looms Large in Nationalized Election

    Summary of Findings Iraq has become the central issue of the midterm elections. There is more dismay about how the U.S. military effort in Iraq is going than at any point since the war began more than three years ago. And the war is the dominant concern among the majority of voters who say they […]

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    Election Day Stakes in the States

    Check out the issues on the ballot in each state, find out who’s running for governor and other state wide offices and see what’s at stake in state legislatures.