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...study released last week by the Pew Internet and American Life project found that more than 40 percent of internet users had used their surfing time to learn about this year’s election, a 50 percent increase from the 2000 election...
...tied its argument up nicely as well when, acknowledging questions about the authenticity of the documents, it said they were true in spirit. Even the pollsters, with their models and metrics, were at a loss to explain where the race had landed: Gallup had Bush 13 points ahead; the Pew Center and Harris Interactive had a 1-point race. At this moment, meteorologists have an edge when it comes to reliability...
...that India lacks competitive spirit, as anyone who has queued there can attest. Nor national pride: the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center's 2003 Global Attitudes survey found India was the most nationalistic place on earth, with 74% of respondents "completely agreeing" that Indian culture is superior. How, then, to explain the nation's supreme?and rather refreshing?unprofessionalism in sports...
...Mooreists don't. And yet, these extremist clumps throw disproportionate weight in the public square. Dick Cheney appears on Limbaugh's show; Moore appears in Jimmy Carter's box at the Democratic Convention. But even if you generously double their numbers--as some experts like Andrew Kohut of the Pew poll do--that leaves 70% of the public unaccounted for. What about the rest...
Even if Kerry fails to build excitement among African Americans, he can still rely on one thing to help get them to the polls: George W. Bush. Only 17% of blacks have a favorable view of the President, while 80% have an unfavorable view, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll. "Because of their antipathy for the other side, they don't have to love [Kerry]," says Curtis Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. But from the Democrats' point of view, it sure wouldn't hurt...