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Most Continue to Favor Gays Serving Openly in Military
Overview As the Pentagon prepares to release its highly anticipated survey of military personnel about the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, most Americans (58%) say they favor allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces. Fewer than half that number (27%) oppose allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly. These opinions have changed little […]
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Public Focused on Economy, Election Impact
Most Aware of Energy Drink Warnings
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The Growing Gap between Landline and Dual Frame Election Polls
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The Growing Gap between Landline and Dual Frame Election Polls; Republican Vote Share Bigger in Landline-Only Surveys
A new analysis of Pew Research Center pre-election surveys conducted this year finds that support for Republican candidates was significantly higher in samples based only on landlines than in dual frame samples that combined landline and cell phone interviews. The difference in the margin among likely voters this year is about twice as large as in 2008.
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Public Knows Basic Facts about Politics, Economics, But Struggles with Specifics
Few Aware of TARP Repayment, Inflation Rate
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About the Survey
Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted November 11-14, 2010 among a national sample of 1,001 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (670 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 331 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 136 who had no landline telephone). […]
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