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| a "brief" and somewhat incomplete look at Liberals and Conservatives |
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.Liberals
-higher % on rich
.Conservatives
-most are taxed too much
-lower taxes bring economic growth |
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.Liberals
-reduce size and spending
-pro UN
.Conservities
-increase size and strength |
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Liberals
-programs like welfare are needed and should be expanded
Conservatives
-fewer frograms
-benefit limits for existing programs |
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| amount of people who recieve government aid |
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| one of the largest contributers to Republicans |
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Liberals
.Keep "high" maintain a basic standard of living for all
.Favors regular increase with inflation
Conservatives
.Introduces into free market
.Minimum wage contributes to unemployment |
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Liberals
.Us is part of the world community
.Work with in UN
.against the policy of "nation building" through military force
Conservatives
.Us should remain as sovereign as possible
.Should not yeild to UN if against US interest
.Supports "nation building" plicy and use of military |
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Liberals
.favor lots of regulation/controls
.global warming serious
.recently-"cap and trade" policy has been debated
Conservatives
.build more nuclear power plants
.energy tax will be budensome
.favor clean air, water, etc, but balanced approach |
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| Democratic support groups |
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Catholics and Jews
Minority groups
Labor unions
College profs
Poor urban areas
Celebrities |
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| Republican Support Groups |
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Protestants(South)
Wealthy
Executives/Owners
Militar/Veterans
Rural/Suburban areas
"Religious rights" |
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.employed by sophisticated survey reasearchers
.operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample |
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| the level of cofidence in the finding of a pulic opinion poll |
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| The rolls of polls in American Democracy |
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.Polls help politicians figure out public preferences
.the wording of questions make a difference |
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| used by the media to predict election day winners |
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| What Polls Reveal About Americans |
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.Americans don't know much about politics
.Americans may know their basic beliefs, but not how that affects policies o the government
Decline of Trust in Government |
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| Decline of Trust in Government |
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.Since 1964, trust in gov has declined
.trust in gov. has gone up somewhat since september 11. |
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