Never-Ending Story: Palin and Hillary Still Making News
The country’s weakened economy rivaled the presidential transition as top story of the week while much coverage focused on two women who ran losing campaigns for the executive branch.
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Palin Fatigue Now Rivals Obama Fatigue
Summary of Findings Many Americans say they are hearing too much about Barack Obama in these final days of the 2008 presidential election – just as they did last summer – but a similar percentage now says the same about Sarah Palin. However, the public’s complaints notwithstanding, a relatively small amount of media coverage was […]
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Section 4: Obama, McCain And The Issues
McCain has reduced Obama’s advantage on several major issues, including reducing the influence of lobbyists, dealing with the nation’s energy problems, and improving the nation’s economy. In addition, McCain has expanded his advantage as the candidate seen as best able to defend against terrorism, and now holds an 11-point lead as the candidate best able […]
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Post-Election Narrative, A Tale of Two Women
The big buzz surrounding the Obama transition last week was that once-fierce rival Hillary Clinton might become his Secretary of State. Meanwhile Sarah Palin, shielded from the press during the campaign, made up for lost time with a media blitz.
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The Latest Campaign Narrative—‘It’s The Economy, Stupid’
Even the Palin phenomenon took a back seat last week as a profound crisis in the financial markets dominated the headlines. In a campaign season of constantly changing storylines, will this become the dominant issue that determines the outcome?
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About the Survey
Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates and Abt SRBI, Inc., among a nationwide sample of 2,982 adults, 18 years of age or older, from September 9-14, 2008 (2,250 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 732 were interviewed on a cell phone, […]
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War in Georgia is Bigger News than the Campaign
Last week, for the first time this year, an event other than the race for president was the No. 1 story. The crisis with Russia was the top story and campaign theme in a week when Barack Obama got more coverage, but John McCain may have gotten the better of it.
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Nov. 20-Dec. 4, 2008 – Post Election
This data set contains questions about how citizens used the internet to get political information and to interact with the campaigns during the 2008 presidential race. It was used in the reports “The Internet’s Role in Campaign 2008” and “Post-Election Voter Engagement”.
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Media Narrative Whipsaws Between Bailout, Debate
In a week in which he injected both suspense and personal dramatics into the campaign storyline, Republican John McCain was the leading newsmaker. But after a debate that the public scored differently than the press, it was Barack Obama getting the more positive headlines.