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    You’re Getting Warmer

    Less than half of the public says the earth is warming as a result of human activity, but a majority knows which gas scientists say is to blame for global warming.

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    Health Care Spending Trumps Deficit

    Most Americans (59%) say they would place a higher priority on spending more money to make health care more accessible and affordable than on reducing the budget deficit.

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    Intensely Patriotic Americans

    PatriotismThat’s the percentage of Americans who said in a 2007 poll that they completely agree with the statement “I am patriotic,” a decline from the near-record 56% who said so in August 2003.

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    Partisan Gap Over Progress in Iraq

    A huge partisan gap divides Americans on the question of whether the U.S. is making progress in defeating the insurgency in Iraq with 80% of Republicans saying that it is, but only 36% of Democrats agreeing.

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    Trade Makes Strange Bedfellows

    That’s the percent of conservative Republicans who think that free trade agreements have, on the whole, been a bad thing for the United States — a view held by essentially the same percentage (32%) of liberal Democrats.

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    Say Military Strength Ensures Peace

    That’s the percentage of Americans who say they think that maintaining military strength is the best way to ensure peace – the lowest percentage in the 20-year history of Pew values surveys.

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    Think Environmental Laws and Regulations Should Be Stricter

    That’s the large percentage of Americans who think that environmental laws and regulations should be stricter. But when asked if “people should be willing to pay higher prices to protect the environment,” the number agreeing falls to 60%, down from 65% in 2003.

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    See Poor as Too Dependent on Government Aid

    That’s the large percentage of Americans who, despite increasing support for government help for the poor, think that “poor people have become too dependent on government assistance programs.” Still, the number in agreement has declined from 79% in 1997.

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    Support Public Library Book Banning

    That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who completely (30%) or mostly (16%) agree that “books that contain dangerous ideas should be banned from public libraries” — the lowest level of support in 20 years.

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