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Percent of those who felt that the government could be trusted to do what was right most of the time in
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1994 |
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1964-76%
1984-44%
1994-19% |
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| Percent of those in a 1996 Washington Post article who felt that most people can be trusted and percent of those who trusted the government to do what was right most of the time. |
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| 35% people, 25% government |
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| Percent of those who have confidence in government in China and US |
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| Percentage of the public who know their representative voted on any one bill |
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| Percentage of the public who knows who their representative is |
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| Percent of those who said they read the newspaper in 1965 |
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| Percent of those who said they read the newspaper yesterday in 2006 |
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| Average percent of those who said they had heard or read something abut the incumbent and challenger during a congressional election |
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| Percent of those who said they had heard or read something about the incumbent and challenger during Brooks Hays district in 1958 |
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| Percentage of the public seeing themselves as 'extremely liberal' |
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| Percentage of the public seeing themselves as 'extremely conservative' |
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| Current size of the national debt |
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| Wage difference between CEOs and the average factory worker in the US in the 1970's and currently |
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| Budget deficit in fiscal year(FY 2009) |
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| Direction of change in real income for the lowest 50 percent of all income earners in the last 30 years |
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| Direction of change in real income for the highest 10 percent of all income earners in the last 30 years |
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| Percent of whites graduating from college |
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| Percent of African Americans graduating from college |
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