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Americans Get More Liberal With Age

Long-term study shows elders trending left

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Mar 10, 2008 1:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – The older a person gets, the more conservative he or she is likely to be, right? Wrong, say scientists who studied more than 46,000 people who responded to a US government survey from 1972 to 2004. In fact, a lead researcher tells LiveScience, "... Read full story »

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