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...Democrats do have a problem. It was partly illuminated by the exit polling, in which 22% of respondents said they voted, primarily, on "moral values," and was reinforced by a subsequent Pew Research poll, in which the number rose...
...Democrats do have a problem. It was partly illuminated by the exit polling, in which 22% of respondents said they voted, primarily, on "moral values," and was reinforced by a subsequent Pew Research poll, in which the number rose...
...initial, simplistic analysis was that Kerry lost because voters in 11 states, including Ohio, rushed to the polls to oppose gay marriage. But according to Pew, "moral values" was about more than social issues. Straight talk was seen as a moral value, and as Karl Rove has said, Kerry's infamous "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it" was the most damaging 11 seconds of the campaign year. Nearly 1 in 4 of Pew's "moral values" voters cited the "personal qualities" of the candidates. And 17% cited "traditional values" like "the way people live their...
...would be easy to have watched this race and conclude that no such center exists, but just about every survey shows otherwise. "This idea that people are going to warring camps--that's not happening," says Carroll Doherty, editor at the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. There's a centrist position that large percentages of Americans hold on many issues: they want to attack the terrorists aggressively but also keep strong relations with other countries, oppose gay marriage but support equal rights for gays, want abortion legal but restricted and limited. While the electorate is polarized...
...doctor, I am concerned about this. I'm a great believer in patients being well informed, and I'm encouraged by reports like the Pew Internet and the American Life Project that found some 93 million Americans use the Web to research health topics. But there's a difference between having well-developed knowledge about a medical issue and just having loads of information--especially if much of that information is wrong. One study of Web searches for the term vaccinationfound that 43% led to sites advising people not to get vaccines. That's not what I'd call sound...