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    Gas Prices Grab the Public’s Attention

    Interest in news about inflation at the pump goes beyond learning where to find the cheapest gallon and extends to impacts on the national economy.

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    Gas Prices Top News Interest

    Summary of Findings The rising price of gasoline replaced the Iraq war last week as the public’s most closely followed news story. More than half of the public (52%) paid very close attention to news about gas prices, and 27% said this was the single news story they followed more closely than any other. By […]

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    A Six-Day War: Its Aftermath in American Public Opinion

    by Robert Ruby, Senior Editor, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life It was famously a six-day war, and in varying guises the conflict has so far lasted another 40 years. For six days, beginning June 5, 1967, Israel battled Egypt, Jordan and Syria. As a result of the fighting, Israel won control of the […]

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    Baker-Hamilton Redux

    Four months after the bipartisan Iraq Study Group proposed a number of new policy options for dealing with the Iraq conflict, these proposals remain broadly popular with the public.

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    Media Give President A Win in War Funding Debate

    From Capitol Hill to a refugee camp in Lebanon to ABC’s investigative team, the Mideast and the war on terror thoroughly dominated the media last week. Meanwhile, a controversy of sorts erupted over how news outlets treated the results of a new survey of Muslim-American attitudes.

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    Baker-Hamilton Redux

    Four months after the bipartisan Iraq Study Group proposed a number of new policy options for dealing with the Iraq conflict, these proposals remain broadly popular with the public. Read full analysis at Pewresearch.org

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    U.S. Catholics Who are Latino

    An estimated one-third (33%) of all Catholics in the United States are now Hispanics; given long-term demographic trends, the Hispanic presence in the nation’s largest single religious denomination is certain to grow.

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    Remembering the Troops

    All of the 50 states but one, Delaware, have lost National Guard troops in the U.S. war on terror. Pennsylvania has suffered the highest number of losses — 31 of a total of 480 Guard deaths since Sept. 11, 2001.

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    Approve Interracial Dating

    That’s the percentage of the U.S. public that now agree that it’s “all right for blacks and whites to date” — up six percentage points from since 2003 and 13 points from a Pew survey conducted 10 years ago.