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    Campaign Watchers on the Net

    That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and to discuss the races through email. And the number of Americans using the internet as their main source of political material doubled since the last mid-term election, rivaling the number from the 2004 presidential election year.

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    Political Preaching from the Pulpit

    That’s the small percentage of churchgoing voters who said they were urged to vote for particular candidates or parties by their clergy or other religious groups. However, among regular churchgoers, nearly three-in-ten (27%) say that information about political parties or candidates in the recent election was available at their place of worship in 2006.

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    Think Government Is Wasteful

    That’s the percentage of Americans who agree that “when something is run by the government, it is usually inefficient and wasteful.”

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    Non-Churchgoers Vote Democratic

    That’s the percentage of Americans who say they never attend religious services who voted for a Democratic House candidate in the 2006 midterm election.

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    Nigerian Muslims Self-Identify First with Their Religion

    That’s the huge proportion of Muslims in Nigeria who say their religion is more important to them than their identity as Africans, Nigerians or members of an ethnic group; nearly as many Christians, 76%, also name their religion as the most important factor in their lives.

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    Approval of Democrats’ Election Wins by Evangelicals

    That’s the percent of white evangelical Americans who say they are happy that the Democrats won control of Congress in the midterm elections — substantially fewer than among other religious groups and seculars.

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    The New Online Political Elite

    That’s the portion of campaign internet users — adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and discuss the races through email — who also used the internet to create and share political content. These creators are particularly active in every type of online political activity.

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    There’s a Robot on the Line for You

    That’s the portion of registered voters who received recorded telephone messages in the final stages of the 2006 mid-term election. These so-called “robo-calls” were the second most popular way for campaigns and political activists to reach voters, trailing only direct mail as a key tool of political communication.

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    At the Top of the Public’s Mind in 2006: Gas Prices

    That’s the number of Americans who said in May that they were following the news about high gas prices very closely–making prices at the pump the most closely tracked of any other story, including Iraq, during 2006.

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    Too Many Safe Seats?

    That’s the tiny percentage of Americans who, going into this week’s elections, said they had heard a lot about the concern among some politicians and political experts over the lack of competitiveness in U.S. elections. And while 71% of voters in districts with competitive House elections said the race was close in their district, a majority of voters (55%) in non-competitive districts also thought their local House races were shaping up to be close.

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