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Younger voters are significantly more knowledgeable this election.
A majority of Republicans cite moral values and abortion as important election issues.
At the start of this year’s election season, only 22% of U.S. adults said that gay marriage will be important to their vote in the coming elections.
That’s the percentage of American adults who support finding “a middle ground” when it comes to abortion. Three-in-ten Americans believe “there’s no room for compromise when it comes to abortion laws.”
That’s the percentage of American adults who oppose making it more difficult for women to obtain abortions — 35% favor such a move.
That’s the number of states — Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota — that have so-called trigger laws waiting on the books to make abortion illegal as soon as federal policy permits. Three others have adopted policy statements opposing abortion.
That’s the number of states that have allocated funds to support embryonic stem cell research. President Bush’s veto of a measure to expand federal funding of such research leaves a handful of states on the contentious cutting edge of government efforts to boost the fledgling science.
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