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...day’s events—at least the ones we’re let into.” Spurred largely by his coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections, Stewart has since become an icon of American popular culture—a 2007 Pew Research Center poll found that Stewart is the fourth most trusted journalist in America. Meanwhile, his show has garnered critical and popular accolades, including six consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Musical, Variety, or Comedy Series...
...moderate on immigration, during the primary season he distanced himself from the 2006 bill he had co-sponsored that offered a path to citizenship. That has not exactly endeared him to the 1.8 million Latinos living in Arizona, who make up 4% of the U.S. Latino population. The Pew Center estimates that there are 677,525 eligible Latino voters, the majority of them under age 30, accounting for 17% of voters in the Grand Canyon State. "The Hispanic vote has been challenging," Diaz concedes. "Some of that can be directly attributed to the debate on immigration, but keep in mind...
...like to offer a few words in defense of the undecided voter, if only because she - about 63% of this year's undecideds are women, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - is entirely uninfected by that great enemy of deliberative democracy: wild-eyed enthusiasm. Unlike the freakishly devoted Obama acolytes and those rabid, occasionally obscenity-shouting McCain-Palin fans, the undecided voter is taking her time. She's also one of the few Americans whose vote this year could actually be decisive, since some polls in swing states like Florida and Missouri show the undecided...
...decide between them? The Pew report has the best data on this year's crop of the unresolved. The national survey of 1,325 registered voters, conducted Oct. 23-26, found that when asked which candidate they preferred, 6.2% answered "don't know" or "either." These voters tend to be older than most, and they have less education. They also make less money, which suggests they have less time to pay attention to politics; only 37% of the undecideds told Pew they were "following election news very closely," compared with 55.5% of McCain or Obama supporters...
...Cabinet's Gill and Stryker have seen their money achieve remarkable results in their respective states, Colorado and Michigan. Stateline.org (a project of the Pew Charitable Trusts) reported that in 2006, Stryker gave "at least $6.4 million to candidates or political committees in at least a dozen states, including Michigan, where he can boast that Democrats gained a majority in the state house for the first time in 12 years." Some Cabinet members also donated tens of thousands of dollars in certain Iowa and New Hampshire races in 2006, when Democrats regained control of both states' legislatures. Those states' Democratic...