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Health Care Proposals of 2008 Democratic and Republican Presidential Nominees: Implications for Improving Access, Affordability and Quality for America's Minorities sfdsdf

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Health Care Proposals of 2008 Democratic and Republican Presidential Nominees: Implications for Improving Access, Affordability and Quality for America's Minorities
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August 29, 2008
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This report examines Senator Barack Obama’s and Senator John McCain’s health care proposals in the context of eliminating the nation’s longstanding racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care.

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2008 National Opinion Poll sfdsdf

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2008 National Opinion Poll
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October 21, 2008
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The 2008 Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies National Opinion Poll is a national survey of 750 African American adults, conducted between September 16 and October 6, 2008. The survey's questions cover a range of topics including politics of the 2008 election and various issues, including education.

 

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2004 National Opinion Poll: Politics and The 2004 Election
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February 1, 2004
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The 2004 Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies National Opinion Poll is a national survey of 1,642 adults, conducted between September 15 and October 10, 2004. The survey's questions cover a broad range of topics including politics and the 2004 election, education, and health care.

 

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2002 National Opinion Poll on Education
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January 1, 2002
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The Joint Center's 2002 National Opinion Poll on education found that the majority of whites rate their local public schools highly, while most African Americans and Hispanics give their schools only a fair grade. The questions in this survey of 2,463 adults (including 850 African Americans and 850 Hispanics) also examined opinions on school vouchers, government spending on education, and school violence.

 

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2000 National Opinion Poll on Politics
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February 1, 2000
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The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies' 2000 National Opinion Poll, conducted between September 15 and October 9, 2000, is a national survey of 1,608 adults. It covered a broad range of topics, including politics and the 2000 election, education, social security, health care, criminal justice, asset accumulation, race relations, attitudes toward American corporations, and globalization and foreign policy.

The survey has two components: a national general-population sample of 850 adults and a national sample of 850 adult African Americans. There are 92 African American respondents in the general-population sample who are also part of the national sample of African Americans. Thus, in total, there are 1,608 adults (18 years of age or older) included in this study. This first release of the findings from the survey covers politics and the 2000 election.

 

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1999 National Opinion Poll: Politics
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June 1, 1999
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The 1999 Joint Center for Political and Economical Studies 1999 National Opinion Poll reveals an interesting mix of continuity and change from the 1998 survey. The black population and the largely white general population of the United States continue to be similar in their views on a number of subjects, although they diverge significantly on others.

 

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1998 National Opinion Poll: Social Security
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April 1, 1999
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The 1998 Joint Center for Political and Economical Studies National Opinion Poll is a national survey of 1,606 adults, which was conducted between September 5 and September 27, 1998. The survey's questions cover a broad range of topics including politics, education, social security, devolution, health care, the environment, and deregulation.

 

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1996 National Opinion Poll: Political Attitudes
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February 9, 1996
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The 1996 Joint Center's national Opinion Poll is a national survey of 1,596 adults, conducted during the first two weeks of January 1996. The survey's questions covered a broad range of topics including politics, social policy, crime/violence/drugs, and youth. This report summarizes the survey findings in the areas of politics and campaign issues.

 

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David A. Bositis, Ph.D. sfdsdf

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Senior Research Associate, Civic Engagement and Governance Institute
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Dr. David A. Bositis (B.A., Northwestern; M.A., Ph.D, Southern Illinois University), who has been at the Joint Center since 1990, is the author, co-author or editor of six books, eleven monographs, and numerous scholarly articles, analyses, and reports. Dr. Bositis has taught political science and sociology at the George Washington University and SUNY-Potsdam.

Since 1992, Dr. Bositis has designed and managed 29 national surveys for the Joint Center, which have included approximately 35,000 respondents.  These surveys include studies done for the U.S. Army, HBO, Pfizer, Fortune, AARP, and other U.S. corporations. These surveys have included national and state surveys of the African American and Hispanic populations and the general population, as well as specialized national surveys of black elected officials, young adults, black churches, minority owned businesses, black professionals, and social workers. Dr. Bositis has written many OP-Ed pieces for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other leading newspapers.

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Bositis, D.A. (2010). African American State Polls on Climate Change and 2010 Midterms Elections: The Results of a Multi-State Poll: The View from Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, and South Carolina. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Bositis, D.A. (2010). Blacks and the 2010 Midterms: A Preliminary Analysis. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Bositis, D.A. (2010). In Anticipation of November 2: Black Voters and Candidates and the 2010 Midterm Elections. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Bositis, D.A. (2009). Joint Center National Survey of African Americans on Climate Change and Conservation. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Bositis, D.A. (2009). 2008 Joint Center national survey of African American families' views on education. Focus, 37(4), 14-15.

Bositis, D.A. (2008). Blacks and the 2008 elections: A preliminary analysis. Focus, 36(5), 2, 13, 15-16.

Bositis, D.A. (2008). 2008 National Opinion Poll. Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Bositis, D.A. (2007). Black Political Power in the New Century. In Bullard, R.D. (Ed.), The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Bositis, D.A. (2006). Voting Rights and Minority Representation: Redistricting 1992-2002. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Bositis, D.A. (2005). The Impact of the Core Voting Rights Act on Voting and Officeholding. In Valelly, R. (Ed.), The Voting Rights Act: Securing the Ballot. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

 

Dr. Bositis' full biography can be found here.

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