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    The internet and the 2008 election

    A record-breaking 46% of Americans have already used internet for politics this election season and Obama backers have an edge

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    Ten Years of Promoting Religious Freedom Through U.S. Foreign Policy

    Oct. 27 marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the International Religious Freedom Act, a law that made the promotion of religious freedom a basic aim of U.S. foreign policy. The passage of the legislation marked the culmination of a campaign of unlikely religious allies, who went on to champion other international human rights […]

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    Religion and Race: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective

    Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2008 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Eddie S.Glaude Jr., author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, discussed religion and race in America. Specifically, he described historical […]

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    Chinese Officials Interested in Religion

    About a third of Chinese government workers and Communist Party officials expressed interest in access to information on religion, the highest level of interest by any occupational group in a 2005 Intermedia survey.

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    Snapshots of the Wired Workforce

    Introduction In 2002, the Project’s “Email at Work” report declared that few working Americans who had incorporated email into their work lives felt overwhelmed by it. In fact, most felt their email load was manageable and most were pleased with the way email helped them to do their job. In 2008, while email is still […]

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    Candidate Preferences of Religious Voters Similar to 2004, But Economy a Higher Priority

    A recently published national survey finds remarkable stability in the candidate preferences of major religious groups when compared with those at a similar stage in the 2004 campaign. The survey was conducted in the summer of 2008 by the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron and headed by John […]

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    Hispanics and Health Care in the United States

    More than one-fourth of Hispanic adults in the United States lack a usual health care provider, and a similar proportion report obtaining no health care information from medical personnel in the past year.

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    IV. Sources of Information on Health and Health Care

    While preventive care and regular health monitoring are essential in maintaining good long-term health and limiting the severity of chronic diseases, more than one in four Hispanics say they received no information regarding health or health care from doctors or health care professionals in the past year. This group includes a wide cross-section of the […]

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    A News Audience Segmentation

    For this analysis, the public was divided into four segments based on their interest in news, their primary news sources, and how often they use the internet to get news. An overwhelming majority of people (82%) follow the news with some regularity. Just 14% in this survey are classified as Disengaged, as they expressed a […]

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    Analyzing the Fall Campaign: Religion and the Presidential Election

    With less than two months before the presidential election in November, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life invited two senior researchers and a group of leading journalists to discuss recent findings on the role religion is playing in the presidential race. Scott Keeter, director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, said […]