'Tipping Points' Identified by Recent Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index Foreshadowed Election Outcome, Public Agenda Says ; Public Anxiety on Foreign Policies Not Likely to Recede with Change of Party Control Without Change in Course

U.S. Newswire, November, 2006

To: National Desk, Political Reporter

Contact: Michael Hamill Remaley of Public Agenda, 212-686-6610 ext. 13 or mremaley@publicagenda.org

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As media analysts deconstructed the factors leading to the Republicans' loss of the U.S. House of Representatives and possible loss of the Senate, Public Agenda today pointed to the potential of its Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index as an accurate gauge of influential public sentiment and the legitimacy of its "tipping points" thesis. The Fall 2006 "Anxiety Indicator" reading of 130 was well above the neutral point of 100 and said to be "not something leaders can just dismiss."

"Public anxieties on foreign policy won't go away just because the Democrats now control the House," Public...

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