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Author notes
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The authors wish to thank Andrew Kohut of the Times-Mirror Center for the People and the Press for making this data set available for our analysis. An earlier version of this article was presented to the 50th Annual Conference of AAPOR, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 1995.
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