Andrew Kohut
Andrew Kohut
Andrew Kohutwas an American pollster and nonpartisan news commentator about public affairs topics...
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This probably has to do with the aging of the population and more people confronting these situations. The poll found that people who have participated in decisions about end-of-life or had loved ones with illnesses in the last five years are much more likely to have thought about end-of-life treatments or to have living wills.
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The overall finding of public opinion since the September 11 attacks is that the American public is willing to see the rules bent a little bit in the war on terrorism.
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Americans are depressed, angry and very worried about the economic consequences of the disaster.
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Associating Roberts with some kind of extremism would likely backfire because he is unlikely to be seen as extremist.
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Attitudes are a little more complicated than thumbs up or thumbs down. Americans do care about Iraq, but it doesn't have the personal impact that the war in Vietnam had. Secondly, this is a more patriotic time. Even though the public is disillusioned with the war in Iraq, it tends to support the concept of preemptive war at a time when most people feel we're at risk.
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This is an issue that he has to contend with ... restoring confidence that people can take his word for things.
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So the public is really very divided on this issue. The ambivalence is remarkable.
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This important question of the trade-off of civil liberties and protection is one the public takes very seriously,
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People are drawing their own inferences and conclusions based on what they see on television. The reports of 85 people killed one day and 55 people killed the next day and mosques blown up, it's hard for people not to think that this does not represent instability and a lack of progress.
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His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.
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His strong points are no longer his strong points.
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Our fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 operating results reflect the challenging market conditions in certain parts of our business.
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Rebuilding power stations doesn't offset people's concerns about so much violence and the possibility for civil war as time goes by. The slaughter of one Iraqi by another Iraqi is just head-turning.
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He is not a jocular personality. He's not out talking in the public a lot. Certainly, the Scooter Libby problem, which has really added to the White House woes, is associated with him. All of these things tend to make him a bigger heavy for Bush's critics.