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14 hours ago ago from The Swamp
by Mark Silva With President Barack Obama's job approval rating at a term-low near the end of his first year, the Pew Research Center's Andrew Kohut suggests that "what's really exceptional at this stage of Obama's presidency is the extent to which the public has moved in a conservative direction on a range of issues.'' This shift has come as much from "the middle of the electorate as from the highly energized conservative right,'' ...
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1 day ago ago from Huffington Post
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