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(Week of 6/15/2013)  After the Supreme Court handed down its decision last year that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was constitutional, many Republicans backed away from support of the Supreme Court – and of its Chief Justice, John Roberts. This week’s Economist/YouGov Poll finds that – at least prior to ...
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(Week of 6/15/2013)  Americans have mixed opinions about Edward Snowden, the government contractor who leaked information about government collection of phone and computer records. But the latest Economist/YouGov Poll finds that the public sides with him on a number of items – doubting the government’s honesty on the subject, and ...
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(Week of 6/15/2013)  President Barack Obama, responding to the verification by U.S. security agencies that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against its own people, as well as calls for aiding the rebels from individuals as diverse as former President Bill Clinton and Senator John McCain, agreed to send ...
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Americans don't trust the NSA or large internet firms, and most feel that they have little or no control over their data. The Guardian first revealed that the NSA had been recording the metadata - data about phone calls - of every call made by every Verizon customer on June ...
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(Week of 6/8/2013)  If immigration reform is to pass Congress this year, it will need support from Republican Senators and Representatives. But rank and file Republicans in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, are closely divided on how to handle immigration – and tend to be negative on legal changes. Although 56% ...
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(Week of 6/8/2013)  Over the next few weeks, the Supreme Court will release its decisions on several critical issues, including campaign finance reform. Perhaps the most-eagerly awaited is its decision on two cases involving gay marriage. Can the federal government ignore laws passed by states legalizing same-sex marriage? And can ...
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(Week of 6/8/2013)  At this point, nine in ten Americans are aware of the debate over the actions of the National Security Agency. But the latest Economist/YouGov Poll shows only a limited impact on opinion of the President – at least for now. Overall approval levels for the President remains ...
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(Week of 6/8/2013)  The National Security Agency has been collecting some information from all mobile service providers; but the Verizon demand is extensive and now public. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, respondents were asked their service provider to see whether Verizon user opinion differed from opinion overall. In fact, there ...
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(Week of 6/8/2013)  Despite the National Security Agency’s claims that the PRISM program tracks only “metadata” like duration of calls and where they go, Americans in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll don’t believe the agency: most think the NSA is also listening in to their phone conversations. Only 17% think the ...
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