During the month of June 2007, a nationwide telephone poll of Americans between the ages of 17 and 29 was conducted by the New York Times, CBS News and MTV. The poll's unsurprising conclusion is that young Americans are "leaning left." Also in June, a special report released by two liberal groups ("Media Matters for America" and "Campaign for America's Future") declared that the majority of Americans hold "progressive" positions on a broad range of issues. The report concluded that independent, nonpartisan polling data from the last 20 years debunk the conventional wisdom that most Americans agree with a conservative agenda.
As might be expected, both sets of data have strong political implications. The "leaning left" poll indicates that young Americans pref View the rest of this article
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