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    Obama Not Overextended

    A majority of Americans (56%) reject the criticism that Obama is trying to tackle too many issues.

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    Bailing out Homeowners

    The public is evenly divided over spending billions to help homeowners who are facing foreclosure on mortgages they cannot afford but most supporters say they are bothered by it.

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    Bailing out Banks

    Just under half (48%) of the public says spending billions of dollars to help keep financial institutions secure is the right thing to do; 40% say it is wrong.

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    Bailing Out Automakers

    Only 30% of the public supports extending government loans to GM and Chrysler.

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    Approval of Republican Leadership

    Just 28% of Americans say they approve of the job Republicans are doing in Congress, the lowest level in Pew Research surveys going back 15 years.

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    Unprepared for the Apocalypse

    Over 87% of Americans are unprepared to protect themselves from even the most basic world-ending scenarios reports The Onion.

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    Cool Air No Luxury

    Seven-in-ten Americans (70%) now consider home airconditioning a necessity, up from only half who said so in the mid-1990s.

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    Reluctant Suffragettes: When Women Questioned Their Right to Vote

    by Jodie T. Allen, Senior Editor, Pew Research Center In the year 1980, 59.4% of voting-age U.S. women cast ballots in that fall’s presidential election. According to the Bureau of the Census, they were joined by 59.1% of voting-age men. That comparison is noteworthy because, 60 years after passage of the 19th Amendment granted them […]

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