Word: blendon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Kennedy School of Government, said that the amount by which the figure rose since last year was surprising...
...thought after Katrina that we wouldn’t see any change in the share of people who wouldn’t like to leave,” Blendon said...
...residents seemed to view staying in the house safer than evacuating. About 75 percent of those who would not leave said they believed they’d be safe in their home, while 56 percent worried about crowded roads and over a third felt that evacuating would be dangerous. Blendon said that evacuation is even more critical for residents of mobile homes, despite the fact that one survey question revealed that one in four people living in mobile homes within 20 miles of the ocean said they would refuse to leave...
...It’s hard to believe that when a mobile home is hit by a level three storm you won’t be in trouble,” Blendon said...
...Blendon said that regardless of the classification system used to categorize different types of independent voters, the most important thing his study cemented was just how different they really...