* 15 percent believe conservatives support same-sex marriage or are not
sure .

Perception of Right Wing and Left Wing
As one would expect, many people think that right-wingers support and
oppose policies in ways which are similar to the positions of conservatives . They include refusals to be interviewed (non-
response), question wording and question order, and weighting. (http://www.harrispollonline.
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PERCEPTIONS OF RIGHT-WINGERS
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* Significant but smaller numbers do not believe or are not sure if
liberals support gun control (37%), affirmative action (26%), same-sex
marriage (22%), gay rights (17%), or abortion rights (16%).g."

TABLE 1
PERCEPTIONS OF CONSERVATIVES
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
conservatives as people who support or oppose . ?"

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Moral values % 52 6 41
Cutting taxes % 48 10 42
Abortion rights % 45 13 42
Affirmative action % 42 11 48
Gay rights % 40 18 42
Gun control % 36 21 43
Same-sex marriage % 34 23 42

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding. Unfortunately, there are several other possible sources of
error in all polls or surveys that are probably more serious than theoretical
calculations of sampling error.
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Majorities believe liberals favor abortion rights, gay
rights , same-sex marriages, and affirmative action.

Perception of Moderates and Independents
Unsurprisingly, perceptions of moderates and independents fall between
those of conservatives and liberals and between right and left-wingers. ?"

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Moral values % 61 14 25
Cutting taxes % 59 17 24
Gun control % 35 42 23
Affirmative action % 27 46 27
Abortion rights % 15 63 22
Gay rights % 15 65 21
Same-sex marriage % 10 69 20

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding.

Methodology
The Harris Poll(R) was conducted online within the United States between
January 11 and 16, 2005 among a nationwide cross section of 2,209 adults aged
18 and over.hieurope.com), Tokyo-based Harris Interactive Japan,
through newly acquired WirthlinWorldwide, a Reston, Virginia -based research
and consultancy firm ranked 25th largest in the world, and through an
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children abducted by rebel insurgents and turned into "kill or be killed"
mercenaries? Where else is war being fought for no discernable political end?
Where else are children, afraid to sleep in their own beds, become "night
commuters," walking miles to cities and unprotected camps to sleep?
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terrorist organization, the Lord's Resistance Army, has gripped northern
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further weaken governance in 2005, opening the door to heightened social
unrest. Fiscal risk is moderate. Deteriorating economic conditions and the flight of foreign
portfolio investment are expected to push the exchange rate and the equity
market lower in 2005.

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Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Moral values % 78 10 12
Cutting taxes % 70 19 11
Gun control % 40 50 10
Affirmative action % 26 54 20
Abortion rights % 13 77 10
Gay rights % 8 81 11
Same-sex marriage % 8 85 7

TABLE 2
PERCEPTIONS OF LIBERALS
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
liberals as people who support or oppose . Propensity score weighting was also used to
adjust for respondents' propensity to be online. Mexico's fiscal position is widely misunderstood by
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Perception of Liberals
While large majorities believe liberals favor abortion rights, gay rights,
and same-sex marriage, substantiated minorities give more surprising
responses:

* Fully 39 percent believe liberals favor cutting taxes, and 17 percent
are not sure. We may be "conservative " on some issues and "liberal" on others,
but it's the specifics that
matter, not the labels. ? "

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Abortion rights % 84 6 10
Gay rights % 82 7 10
Same-sex marriage % 78 9 13
Affirmative action % 74 9 17
Gun control % 63 24 13
Moral values % 54 28 18
Cutting taxes % 39 44 17

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding.

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slowing personal consumption and investment growth. The risk of a sharper reserve drawdown
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Most people, it appears, understand these labels in pretty much the same
way political pundits do.

TABLE 4
PERCEPTIONS OF LEFT-WINGERS
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
left-wingers as people who support or oppose . Figures for age, sex, race, education, region and household
income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual
proportions in the population.

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World Vision contends the Bush Administration has all but ignored this
forgotten war, while children are kidnapped from their homes, abused and, in
many cases, forced to kill members of their own families.

Panelists:

-- Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS)
-- Representative Jesse L.m.

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The majorities who give the expected answers (e. the 59 percent who say
that right-wingers support cutting taxes) are about 10 points lower than those
who give the expected answers when describing conservatives.

Harris Interactive is indebted to the distinguished social scientist, Leo
Bogart, who suggested that we measure what political labels mean to people.com ), the 15th
largest and fastest-growing market research firm in the world, is a Rochester,
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* 23 percent think that conservatives support abortion rights or are not
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TABLE 5
PERCEPTIONS OF MODERATES
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
moderates as people who support or oppose .

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and many others routinely use political labels to describe politicians and
policies as conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing.S.. Mexico's relations with the U.
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-- Carolyn Davis, Editorial Writer and occasional Columnist
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-- Trish Katyoka, Africa Advocacy Director, Amnesty International USA
-- Rory Anderson, World Vision's Senior Policy Advisor for Africa
-- Moderator Serge Duss, World Vision's Director of Public Policy
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PERCEPTIONS OF INDEPENDENTS
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
independents as people who support or oppose . The probability of Mexico's next president hailing from the
political left is high. A larger current account deficit
and lower foreign investment inflows are expected to reduce foreign exchange
reserves in 2005 by about $2 billion.

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Moderates for example are seen by many people to resemble conservatives in
supporting moral values and tax cuts but to resemble liberals in supporting
abortion rights, gun control and gay rights. Smaller numbers, but still
pluralities , believe that independents favor tax cuts, abortion rights,
affirmative action, gay rights, gun control and same sex marriage..

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children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by
tackling the causes of poverty.

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These are the results of a new Harris Poll of 2,209 U.
Similarly:

* 50 percent believe that conservatives support gun control or are not
sure.

* 46 percent think that conservatives support affirmative action or are
not sure.
But the label right wing is less clear to many people than conservative.

Likewise, the label left -winger is broadly perceived to be similar to
liberal except that more people are not sure what it means. Those
beliefs are often inconsistent and self-contradictory, because Americans don't
adhere to a party line or doctrine that provides ready answers to all
questions. ?"

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Gay rights % 64 18 19
Abortion rights % 61 18 20
Same-sex marriage % 59 21 20
Affirmative action % 59 15 26
Gun control % 50 29 21
Moral values % 40 29 31
Cutting taxes % 30 45 25

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
Investment risk in Mexico is high and is expected to remain high in 2005. Social unrest will intensify in 2005 as social conditions continue to
deteriorate .

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Large majorities believe that conservatives favor
moral values, cutting taxes, and oppose same-sex marriage, gay rights, and
abortion rights.
After reviewing these findings, Bogart, commented that , "The confusion over
what the widely used political labels actually mean reflects their common use
as epithets rather than as true descriptions of people's beliefs. It is
impossible to quantify the errors that may result from these factors.researchandmarkets. Jackson, Jr.

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online sample is not a probability sample.-based global research company that blends premier strategic consulting
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* 19 percent think that conservatives support gay rights or are not sure... Known for The Harris Poll(R) and for pioneering Internet-based
research methods, Harris Interactive conducts proprietary and public research
to help its clients achieve clear, material and enduring results. In addition to an oil-induced U.
Mexico's fiscal risk stems from the sharp divergence between official fiscal
and public sector debt indicators and broader measures of public sector
accounts and debt.S.

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Perception of Conservatives
While most people gave the expected answers , substantial minorities think
that conservatives oppose cutting taxes (19%) or are not sure (11% ) whether
they favor or oppose cutting taxes.

* Fully 37 percent believe that liberals either oppose gun control (24%)
or are not sure (13%).
Overall, therefore, people are more likely to see moderates and
independents as resembling liberals than resembling conservatives .
In theory, with probability samples of this size, one could say with 95
percent certainty that the results have a sampling error of plus or minus 2
percentage points.novatris.

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people don't know what the phrase means with between 20 and 27 percent saying
they are not sure whether a right-winger would support or oppose each of the
seven policy positions. ?"

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Moral values % 68 6 26
Cutting taxes % 53 16 30
Affirmative action % 51 15 34
Abortion rights % 50 19 31
Gun control % 47 21 32
Gay rights % 44 26 30
Same-sex marriage % 26 43 31

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding.S. Balance of payments risk is low.org/press