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    Abortion a More Powerful Issue for Women

    Public divisions over access to abortion are long-standing, and have changed only slightly over the past two decades. Currently, 58% say they oppose making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion, while 36% are in favor of further restrictions. This is virtually unchanged from polling conducted in the early 1990s. In 1987, […]

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    Gay Marriage a Voting Issue, But Mostly for Opponents

    Summary of Findings Gay marriage has surpassed other major social issues like abortion and gun control in its influence on voters. Four-in-ten voters say they would not vote for a candidate who disagrees with them on gay marriage, even if they agree with the candidate on most other issues. By comparison, 34% say they would […]

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    Is the Market Moral? A Dialogue on Religion, Economics & Justice

    2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Reception Immediately Following Washington, D.C. Panelists: Rebecca M. Blank, Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor of Policy and Economics, University of Michigan; Co-director of the National Poverty Center, Ford School William McGurn, Chief Editorial Writer, Wall Street Journal; member, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic […]

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    Three-in-Ten Voters Open to Persuasion

    Summary of Findings Heading into an eight-month marathon to Election Day, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry already command strong support from their respective parties and will now try to win over those in the middle: ­ the estimated three-in-ten voters who have not yet fully committed to either candidate. Overall, 38% of voters support […]

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    Assimilation and Language

    This survey brief explores the concept of assimilation and the role of language in explaining this process.

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    Generational Differences

    This survey brief explores the differences in demographics, attitudes and experiences of first, second and third generation or higher Latinos. It also looks at “generation one and a half,” those Latinos who arrived in the United States before age 10.

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    Topline Results

    ePolitics 2004: A Study of the Presidential Campaign on the Internet Tables may not add up to 100 due to rounding. Front Page   All front pages ABC AOL CNN MSNBC Nat’l. Review N.Y. Times Salon USA Today Wash. Post Yahoo   (n = 60) (n = 6) (n = 6) (n = 6) (n […]

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    The Pursuit of Perfection: A Conversation on the Ethics of Genetic Engineering

    3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Washington, D.C. Featuring: Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University; member, President’s Council on Bioethics; author of “The Case Against Perfection,” The Atlantic Monthly, April 2004 Responding: Lee M. Silver, Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School […]

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    Site Profiles

    As is the case with much of the web, numbers only tell part of the story of online political offerings during the 2004 political season. A page’s personality and depth-what you get from all those links and stories-can’t be captured in a strictly quantitative analysis. So as it did in 2000, the Project asked journalist […]

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