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    The Internet is playing a growing role in politics

    WASHINGTON, D.C. January 12 – More than a third of the nation’s Internet users have gone online to get news and information, exchange emails about the race, or participate online in the current political campaign. Even among wired Americans, the Internet still lags far behind television and newspapers as voters’ main source of political news. […]

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    Cable and Internet Loom Large in Fragmented Political News Universe

    Summary of Findings The 2004 presidential campaign is continuing the long-term shift in how the public gets its election news. Television news remains dominant, but there has been further erosion in the audience for broadcast TV news. The Internet, a relatively minor source for campaign news in 2000, is now on par with such traditional […]

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    Latino Attitudes On The War In Iraq, The Economy And The 2004 Election

    Latino support for the war in Iraq and for President George W. Bush has surged since the capture of Saddam Hussein, but Latinos remain concerned about the condition of the U.S. economy and the long-term consequences of the war. In order to probe Latino views of the war, the economy, and the upcoming presidential race, the Pew Hispanic Center (PHC) conducted two national surveys of Latino adults. One took place in December 2003, just before Hussein’s capture, and the other in early January 2004

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    Immigration Data Excerpts

    In light of President George W. Bush's January 7, 2004 announcement of a new immigration initiative, the Pew Hispanic Center provided information about attitudes towards immigrant and immigration policy, and estimates of the size of the undocumented population in the United States. Sources for the data are the National Survey of Latinos, conducted in 2002 jointly by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Center's March 2002 report entitled “How Many Undocumented: The Numbers Behind the U.S.-Mexico Migration Talk.”

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    Poll: Americans Comfortable with Politicians’ Religious Rhetoric

    Public Thinks Republicans more friendly toward religion than Democrats View the poll results Democratic presidential candidates are beginning to speak more openly about their religious faith on the campaign trail. A July 2003 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows […]

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    Sharp decline in music file swappers

    The percentage of American adult Internet users who say they download music drops by half and the usage of some file-sharing applications declines.

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    The RIAA lawsuits against online music file sharers appear to have had a devastating impact

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 — The percentage of online Americans downloading music files on the Internet has dropped by half and the numbers who are downloading files on any given day have plunged since the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) began filing suits in September against those suspected of copyright infringement. Furthermore, a fifth of […]

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    The Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion and Public Life

    E.J. Dionne Jr., Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Kayla Drogosz, Series Editors The Dialogues are short volumes, published jointly by the Pew Forum and the Brookings Institution, that bring together the voices of scholars, journalists and activists engaged simultaneously in the religious and policy realms. These books will appeal to public policy specialists, university students, clergy, […]