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Professor Analyzes Presidential Debates
October 21, 2008 Now that the general election debates are over, University of Missouri Professor of Communication William Benoit has analyzed the content of the three encounters between Senators McCain and ... > full story -
Voters In Battleground States More Ambivalent About Presidential Candidates
October 20, 2008 Heavy advertising by both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates may actually make voters in battleground states more confused about which candidate to vote for, a new study suggests. A ... > full story -
Persuading Novice Voters With Abstract Or Concrete Messages: Timing Is Everything
October 16, 2008 Political commentators and opinion page writers criticized Barack Obama for his lack of specifics, yet voters continued to respond to his message. Obama's reliance on lofty rhetoric has succeeded ... > full story -
6 Of 9 Presidential Election Forecasts Predict Obama Will Win 2008 Popular Vote
October 16, 2008 Most of nine forecast models developed by political scientists predict a victory for Senator Barack Obama over Senator John McCain in the two-party contest for the popular vote in the 2008 ... > full story -
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School Voucher Adoption Affected By Political Decision-Making
October 15, 2008 Success in introducing vouchers is highly correlated with these governments' political institutions and ... > full story -
Obama's and McCain's Technology Policies Examined
October 15, 2008 As the 2008 presidential election enters its final month, researchers have found some sharp differences -- and surprising similarities -- in the two major candidates' positions on technology ... > full story -
Did Pirates Create The Credit Crunch?
October 15, 2008 As the world’s money markets do their best to combat the Credit Crunch, a politics lecturer has discovered that the root of modern democracy’s money woes may lay with the first ... > full story -
Celebrity Adoption Of Charitable Causes Oversold
October 14, 2008 Celebrities do have the ability to focus awareness on charitable and political causes, but their power to move the news machine to shape policy agendas has been oversold, according to recent research ... > full story -
Americans And The Economy: Angry Feelings, Fear Exceeds Terrorism Risk
October 10, 2008 In the first three days of the country's economic meltdown that began Sept. 29, 81 percent of Americans surveyed in a national poll agreed or strongly agreed that the financial crisis "poses a ... > full story -
Transparency In Politics Can Lead To Greater Corruption
October 10, 2008 Why are some countries more prone to political corruption? Researchers have investigated why corruption among the political elite was more extensive in Argentina than in Chile during the 1990s. Among ... > full story
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