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    V. Hispanic Views of the Social Security Debate

    In a national survey conducted between February 15 and March 5, 2005, Hispanics were almost evenly divided over whether the Social Security system faced severe problems. The survey also found that a plurality of Latinos favored a plan of the sort proposed by President Bush that would allow people to individually invest some of their […]

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    II. Voting in Mexican Elections

    Nearly nine of ten respondents (87%) in the Survey of Mexican Migrants said they would cast votes in the next Mexican elections from the United States if they could. Only a tenth of the respondents (10%) said they would not. The same overwhelming sentiment in favor of voting in Mexican elections was expressed across every […]

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    The Global Spread of Wahhabi Islam: How Great a Threat?

    12:00-2:00pm Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Council on Foreign Relations co-hosted a luncheon roundtable on “The Global Spread of Wahhabi Islam: How Great a Threat?” on May 3, 2005 at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. The global spread of radical Islam, the threat […]

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    The advent of spim

    Nearly 17 million instant message users have received spim — unsolicited commercial messages that are the IM equivalent of spam.

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    IV. Migration Experience

    As noted above, the sample for this survey drew heavily from among young and recently arrived migrants. As such, the survey sample is not representative of the full range of migratory experiences by Mexicans in the United States. The sample encompasses a reduced share of older migrants and migrants of longer tenure who may have […]

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    Methodology

    SAMPLING AND INCLUSION Two distinct categories of media were studied as part of the 2005 PEJ Media Report Card project. The first, text-based media, included newspapers and Internet news sites. Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted coding for those media. The second, electronic media, included both broadcast network and cable network news. The School of […]

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    Islam and Democratization in the Middle East

    Los Angeles, California The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pacific Council on International Policy co-hosted a meeting on “Islam and Democratization in the Middle East” on April 27, 2005, at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. The roundtable featured one of Egypt’s foremost human rights activists, Saad Eddin […]

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    Faith at War: Reports from the Islamic World

    12:00-2:00pm Council on Foreign Relations New York, New York The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Council on Foreign Relations co-hosted a luncheon roundtable on “Faith at War: Reports from the Islamic World” on May 4, 2005, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. With over one billion adherents, the […]

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    IV. The Dean Activists

    Different Kind of Democrat Dean activists are a distinctive group within their own party. As a group, they are much more racially homogenous than the general public or Democrats. More than nine-in-ten Dean activists (92%) are white and just 1% are African American. By comparison, the public is 79% white, as are about two-thirds of […]

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    With Ben Franklin’s Blessings: A Primer on the Faith-Based Initiative

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in May 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker John DiIulio, a University of Pennsylvania professor and former director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, discussed the […]