Frank Newport
Frank Newport
based bush media move period tend time wisdom
We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.
ads beer bowl certainly country drinking men people perception recent super
We know from the recent Super Bowl in this country that a lot of these beer ads were aimed at men between 21 and 34. So we certainly have this perception that young people are drinking the most, but that's not necessarily the case.
movements stuff
There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.
attitudes capture claims matter rarely religious stable
Americans' religious attitudes and behaviors are so stable that they rarely change, no matter what big claims may briefly capture our attention.