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    Online Reunion

    Fully 36% of adult internet users say they have used a search engine to find information about someone from their past.

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    News Attitudes and Habits

    Most Americans continue to enjoy keeping up with the news – and more than half (52%) say they enjoy it a lot. Despite the pace of modern life, a large majority of people (68%) say they do not feel they are too busy to keep up with the news. And for the most part, people […]

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    Section 4: Race and Gender in the Democratic Primary

    While race and gender have been the focus of a good deal of discussion through the course of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, most voters believe that neither was a significant factor in the success or failure of the Obama and Clinton candidacies. And among those who believe race and gender were factors, somewhat more […]

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    Obama Backers Cool to Clinton as Running Mate

    While a majority of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters (53%) favor a so-called “Dream Ticket,” fully 54% of Obama supporters do not want Clinton chosen as his running mate.

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    McCain’s Negatives Mostly Political, Obama’s More Personal

    Overview As the end of the primary season draws near, Barack Obama is the clear favorite of Democratic voters for their party’s presidential nomination. He currently holds a wide 54% to 41% lead over Hillary Clinton. But when the Illinois Democrat is tested against John McCain in a general election matchup, he now runs about […]

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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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    II. Demographics

    Age Hispanic women are much younger than their non-Hispanic counterparts. Hispanic women are younger than are other women in the United States. The median age of Hispanic women is 41, compared with 47 for non-Hispanic women. Hispanic women are more likely than non-Hispanic women to be under the age of 35. Whereas 42% of Hispanic […]

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    Obama’s Black Audience

    Are critics like Jesse Jackson more — or less — in touch with the African American public? A look at what survey data tell us about black attitudes and priorities.