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Beyond partisanship — and behind those healthy economic indicators — Americans may be seeing something that most economists overlook.
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Beyond partisanship — and behind those healthy economic indicators — Americans may be seeing something that most economists overlook.
This time, the opposition runs strongly along party lines.
When President Bush delivered a strong warning against isolationism in his State of the Union address, he was speaking to a recent and dramatic turn in public opinion, indicated by Pew polling.
Not only is there evidence of a reawakening of young people to public life, but today’s youth are politically distinctive in many ways.
Neither hawks nor doves, America’s youth are more willing than their elders to give both war and peace a chance. A new poll analysis finds that generational differences on the use of force confound the stereotypes.
New analysis finds predominantly Republican “red” as well as swing counties significantly more opposed to immigration – both legal and illegal – than are predominantly Democratic “blue” counties, where immigrants are much more populous.
From Medicaid to immigration, state lawmakers grapple with contentious issues as elections loom.
Many Americans do not fit well within into either the conservative or liberal camps. Instead they find a home in one of two other U.S. political traditions, libertarian and populist, or defy attempts to pigeon-hole them.
Although President Bush’s approval rating has declined as much among white evangelicals as among the public as a whole, so far evangelicals don’t seem likely to abandon the GOP this fall.
Allegations of corruption are fueling political discontent among independents, who are unhappy with Congress in general and their own representatives in particular.
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