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In the second quarter of 2007, the presidential campaign took over center stage. It was the top storyline overall, accounting for 9% of the newshole and edging out any one of the three Iraq story threads. (The Iraq war coverage combined amassed 15% of the newshole this quarter, but campaign coverage supplanted each of the […]
Summary of Findings The public is ambivalent about the immigration bill being debated by the Senate. Most Americans favor one of its key objectives, but the bill itself draws a mostly negative reaction from those who have heard about it. Just a third of those who have heard something about the bill favor it, while […]
One of the biggest trends in online information is the two-way conversation. To what extent did the candidate Web sites take advantage of the potential for users to “converse” with candidates and the campaign? To a greater extent than many information sites. All candidates offer at least one way for users to “converse” with the […]
Sites Studied Joe Biden (D) http://www.joebiden.com/home Sam Brownback (R) http://www.brownback.com/s Hillary Clinton (D) http://www.hillaryclinton.com/?splash=1 John Cox (R) http://www.cox2008.com/cox/ Christopher Dodd (R) http://www.chrisdodd.com/home John Edwards (D) http://johnedwards.com/ James Gilmore (R) http://www.gilmoreforpresident.com/index.php Rudolph Giuliani (R) http://www.joinrudy2008.com/ Mike Gravel (D) http://www.gravel2008.us/ Mike Huckabee (R) http://www.explorehuckabee.com/ Duncan Hunter (R) http://www.gohunter08.com/ Dennis Kucinich (D) http://kucinich.us/ John McCain (R) http://johnmccain.com/ Barack […]
The Fort Dix terror plot, the Attorney General’s Congressional appearance, French presidential elections, and the Iraq debate all seized top space in the universe of talk media last week. But what you heard, or whether you heard anything at all, depended on who was doing the talking.
Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2007 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Philip Jenkins, a Penn State University professor and one of the first scholars to call attention to the rising demographic power of Christians in […]
The debates over immigration policy and Iraq war strategy were the most popular topics on cable and radio talk shows last week. The 2008 presidential race also attracted lots of attention, again. But two nasty political tiffs got on the talkers’ radar screen as well.