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    Your Information Online? No Problem

    Fully six-in-ten online adults are not worried about how much of their personal information is available on the internet.

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    Values Gap in Black Community

    By a ratio of two-to-one, (61%-31%) African Americans say that the values of poor and middle class blacks have grown more dissimilar over the past decade.

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    The Inevitable Candidate: Obama?

    As voters go to the polls in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont, seven-in-ten Democrats (70%) say Obama is most likely to win the party’s nomination, while just 17% see Clinton as the likely victor. Even a majority (52%) of Clinton’s backers say they think Obama is likely to emerge as the winner.

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    Fast Rising Prices

    Nearly eight-in-ten Americans feel that prices in the US have risen “a lot” in recent years.

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    Losing Ground Financially

    Nearly six-in-ten Americans (58%) now say that their incomes are falling behind the rising cost of living, compared with just 44% who expressed this view in September 2007.

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    Where’s Waldo?: Look Online

    Half of adult internet users say they think it would be “pretty easy” for someone to find them based on the information available about them online.

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    Republicans’ Concern About Lobbyists Rises

    Reducing the influence of lobbyists and special interest groups in Washington is now a much higher priority among Republicans than it was a year ago; roughly four-in-ten Republicans (42%) currently rate such efforts a top priority, up from 28% in January 2007.

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    U.S. Muslims Prefer Democrats

    That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say they are Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party.

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    50 Cent Takes a Rap

    Only 17% of African Americans view gangsta rapper 50 Cent as a “good influence,” by far the lowest approval rating accorded any on a list of black newsmakers in a recent Pew survey.

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    African Americans View the Future

    Fewer than half of all African Americans (44%) now say they think life for blacks will get better in the future, down from the 57% who said so in a 1986 survey.