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...anti-Hispanic positions on tightening border enforcement are long gone. "We haven't seen any empirical support for that," says one senior GOP aide. The aide points to close races around the country where Democrats are falling into line behind a border-security-first approach, and a recent AP survey that showed no significant new voter registration in cities where pro-immigration rallies had taken place...
...blacks and Hispanics. But fewer whites say those factors gave white people an advantage (62%, versus 79% of the non-whites). Second, whites are only about half as likely as blacks or Hispanics to attribute white advantage and black disadvantage to laws and institutions. White Republicans in the survey specifically resisted crediting the legal system as important to white advantage...
...survey is packed with fascinating findings, some surprising (a stunning proportion of whites--77%--say their race has a distinct culture that should be preserved) and some less so (whites view their role in the social hierarchy more benignly than blacks and Hispanics do). Whites are more likely to say prejudice and discrimination put blacks at a disadvantage than to say those factors contribute to white advantage. And they are much less likely than nonwhites to attribute inequality to bias in the legal system...
...cater to its new share-owning constituency. Today, around 1 in 9 voters is a Telstra shareholder; it's a broad group, to be sure, but like a majority of asset-rich Australians, these T-people tend to vote for the John Howard?led Coalition. Just last week, a survey by Roy Morgan Research showed that the government has very strong support among its joint-venture partners in the telco: 71% of Telstra shareholders surveyed supported the Howard government's management of the economy, while only 20% opted for Labor...
...recent study by investigators at Denmark's Natural Environmental Research Institute showed that mercury measurable in the fur of Greenland polar bears is 11 times higher than it was in baseline pelts preserved from as early as the 14th century. This fall the National Wildlife Federation will release a survey of more than 65 recently published studies showing elevated mercury in more than 40 species, many of which had been thought to be in little danger. Some, including common loons and bald eagles, are already showing signs of behavioral and reproductive changes associated with mercury poisoning...