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People do make a distinction between what someone does in his personal life and his ability to do his job. However, if this involved perjury or obstruction of justice, which speaks to his role as president, the public has not come to any conclusion on that yet.
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We still live in a time where people feel threatened, and the Democrats have been at a disadvantage on this issue, and for them to make progress they have to address it.
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Even when we were struggling, people had been reluctant to think that Iraq would turn out like Vietnam, a failure for the United States.
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The transformation from being seen as honest to being seen as incompetent is an extraordinary indicator of how far he has fallen.
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There's nothing that suggests this is a breakout election, ... People know it's a close race, but that doesn't appear to have compelled them any more than the walkover election four years ago.
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Americans are depressed, angry and very worried about the economic consequences of the disaster.
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To rebuild his personal trust he must get people feeling better about his performance.
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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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With gay marriage there's the whole question of what marriage represents, in what's a religious ceremony for many people.
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There's a lot of centrism among the public about abortion, ... It's very easy for the activists to scare most Americans, who have a nuanced view of abortion, either from the pro-life or the pro-choice perspective.
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Media coverage both shapes and reflects public opinion. The press coverage in the run-up to the war was very pro-war and the country was very pro-war.
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It's not all one way with respect to the problem of immigration, and certainly with respect to immigrants themselves.