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State of the Nation: The Media and Other Matters

What percentage of Americans know someone who is gay? 

Stephen Ansolabehere

Politics, State of the Nation
  • June 1, 2008

Stephen Ansolabehere

Stephen Ansolabehere is Professor of Government at Harvard University and coauthor of Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming. 

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