Popular Press and Media Coverage

 

 

Polarization and Elections

 

 

 

Gay GOP Group Splinters: Conservatives Exit Log Cabin

 

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Are American Voters Ideologically Polarized?

 

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Election tests local residents' civility: Both sides' partisans get angry in many settings

 

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Pollsters, Psychics, and Sports Teams: Who Can Predict the Next President?

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SUCESSÃO NOS EUA / DIVISÃO AMERICANA

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The Hoover Digest: Purple Voters in the Golden State: California’s Republican Party has drifted off the centrist track. But its voters haven’t.

 

 

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates discusses the new book Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America with its co-author, Samuel Abrams. Abrams argues that the "red vs. blue" cultural divide repeated by American media is inaccurate shorthand, and that Americans agree more than disagree about many important issues.

 

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Jewish Public Opinion

 

 

Commentary: Jews and the 2008 Election

 

The Forward: CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL: Study of Jewish Dems

 

 

 

The New York Observer: Jews Really Are For Obama

 

 

Jewish Telegraph Agency: Poll-Jews Back Party More Than Obama

 

The  Jersulaem Post: NYU poll -US Jews favor Obama 2:1

 

Commentary: Why Jews Are Voting Obama?

 

 

Bubbe, Call Your Grandkid for Obama

 

 

 

Jewish Telegraph Agency : Study: Pro-Israel community may become more hawkish

 

 

NYU Local: NYU Study: Jews <3 Obama

 

 

Globalization

 

The New Republic: Globalization Excites The Masses (with Niall Ferguson)

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATs and Higher Education

 

The Boston Globe : More time for SATs a concern

Slate Magazine: Flag on the Field: Should colleges know when a student takes the SAT untimed?

Nightline: Does Loophole Give Rich Kids More Time on SAT?