To assess potential voters' opinions on a variety of issues relevant to the presidential election of 2000, 45 undergraduates completed a questionnaire prior to viewing the third presidential debate between candidates Bush and Gore. Descriptive statistics indicated that, for this sample, economic issues emerged as most important and familiar while Middle-East issues were the least important and least familiar.
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