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    The Talkers Hammer Hillary Clinton

    Thanks in part to the Democrats’ spirited debate in Philadelphia, last week was the biggest week of the year for the presidential campaign in the universe of radio and cable talk shows. The main course was the Democratic front runner who got carved up by hosts and pundits of various political stripes.

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    News Judgments By Outlet

    In the third quarter, some patterns among different media sectors and outlets continued to reveal themselves. One such pattern is the basic similarity in the news judgment on the three nightly commercial broadcast network newscasts. From July through September, the lineup of the top four stories—the Iraq war policy debate, followed by events inside Iraq, […]

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    The 2008 Campaign: Steady Coverage with Clinton as Top Newsmaker

    For at least a few days this summer, even Hillary Clinton’s neckline became a campaign issue. On July 20, the same day the Washington Post published a story about Clinton’s “tentative dip into new neckline territory,” a segment on “senatorial cleavage” was part of the MSNBC Hardball lineup. One guest, feminist author Naomi Wolf, dismissed […]

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    Optimists About Housing Prices

    As recently as June, more than six-in-ten Americans (62%) still expected U.S. housing prices to continue to rise.

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    A Year Ahead, Republicans Face Tough Political Terrain

    Introduction and Summary A year before the 2008 presidential election, most major national opinion trends decidedly favor the Democrats. Discontent with the state of the nation is markedly greater than it was four years ago. President Bush’s approval rating has fallen from 50% to 30% over this period. And the Democrats’ advantage over the Republicans […]

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    Topline

    TOPLINE Iraq Ground Events Study January 1-October 31, 2007    Reporting by Media Sector Frequency % of Stories Newspapers 122 11.0% Online 170 15.3 Network TV 465 41.9 Cable TV 292 26.3 Radio 60 5.4 Total 1109 100%   Reporting by Month Across All Media Outlets Frequency % of Stories January 129 11.6% February 133 […]

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    The Precarious State of Statehouse Budgets

    A slumping housing market and skimpier sales tax collections are busting budgets from California to Florida with national job growth sluggish and consumer confidence near a two-year low.

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    Section 2: The General Election

    While the Democratic Party maintains a substantial advantage over the GOP in party identification, Clinton holds a more modest 51%-43% lead over Giuliani among registered voters in an early general election test. Clinton runs particularly well among those demographic groups that typically vote Democratic by wide margins — minorities, the poor and less educated people. […]

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    Methodology

    Focus of the Study This Portrait From Iraq Study is a special report based on additional analysis of content already aggregated in PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index (NCI). In our weekly analysis of press coverage, PEJ identifies three different storylines of the Iraq war: events on the ground, the policy debate (usually focused in Washington, […]